WikiLeaks Criminal Complaint Claims U.S. Seized Leaked Garani Bombing Video

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Andy Greenberg, Forbes Staff
9/02/2013 @ 6:55PM

.. video of an airstrike on .. Garani that killed as many as 60 civilians has been a loose thread in the story of WikiLeaks. Army private .. Manning .. admitted .. leaking the video ... But WikiLeaks never published it. Now Assange says he’s filing a new legal claim about .. that video ..: Illegally seized by the U.S. government.

In a statement .. Monday, WikiLeaks says it plans .. a criminal complaint against the U.S. government in Sweden Tuesday ... The complaint .. accuses the US .. of taking a suitcase containing .. Assange’s laptops .. during a September 2010 flight from Stockholm to Berlin. Those .. hard drives, Assange claims, included the .. massacre video, as well as evidence of US surveillance of Assange .. and .. communications between Assange and his lawyer ...

In early 2010, WikiLeaks suggested in a tweet that it had .. an encrypted copy of the video and asked for .. access to supercomputing .. to .. decrypt it. Later WikiLeaks wrote that the file had been destroyed by .. Domscheit-Berg, who left the group in the fall of 2010 ... Domscheit-Berg .. confirmed .. he destroyed .. cryptographic keys .. of the files he took, but denies that the Garani video was part of the collection ...

Assange remains in the Ecuadorean embassy .. to avoid extradition to Sweden .. for alleged sexual misconduct ...

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2013/09/02/wikileaks-filing-swedish-criminal-complaint-against-u-s-for-seizing-leaked-garani-bombing-video/

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	And also, when he does laundry, US spies steal single socks from the drier
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	His suit's goin nowhere cuz America controls the Swedish judicial system
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	Mebbe in his rush to get outta Sweden, he left some luggage in the taxi
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	Yeah, well, this is exactly why I usually don't sleep around with CIA agents
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	Next the damn fascists will start confiscating stacks of cash from stick-up artists
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	meh: it's just another craven attempt from some hack politician to win votes on Saturday
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	Just calm down, Julian, and think! It's probably with all that Bank of America stuff you misplaced!
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	I myself have never waited three years to try to locate a lost suitcase
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	Domscheit-Berg will be happy to know he's no longer under a cloud of suspicion
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[GeorgeGist]

1. Are you from Florida?

I've never seen a ballot with so many ellipses.

[struggle4progress]

2. I don't like wordy writing. Lots of folk pad cuz they get paid by volume

[treestar]

3. Wait a minute

Er, he's complaining that what he stole was stolen?

[struggle4progress]

5. St Julian, the Blessed Martyr, has at times advanced some miraculous legal dogma

A few years back, when The Guardian failed to comply completely with The Martyr's dicta for publication of the cables Manning had sent him, he threatened to sue, citing his belief that The Guardian was damaging his financial interests, which (he thought) must derive from his "ownership" of those cables

The Guardian somehow not retreating in the face of this threat, no suit materialized -- and a most natural guess might be that, when Julian the Blessed consulted counsel more competent than himself on these matters, he was advised that his non-standard creed of ownership and financial interest would likely find little favor in actual Halls of Justice

[msanthrope]

4. This is one of funniest articles I've ever read about Assange.....

1) He's filing a criminal complaint in a nation where he is wanted for questioning on a rape charge;

2) He's finally admitted that Berg didn't steal the documents; and

3) He checked his laptops.

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6. One wants to say "Don't quit your day job, Julian" -- but of course ...

[msanthrope]

7. You would think that James Blond would have the whole espionage schtick

down by now...

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8. ... The police border control division at Arlanda Airport opened an investigation

as a matter of course after receiving the complaint Tuesday, spokeswoman Jessica Fremnell said. She declined to comment on Assange's suggestion to interrogate people in Obama's entourage, saying "we make our own decisions about what we think we need to do." Assange's lawyer, Per Samuelson, told the AP that airport personnel in Berlin and Stockholm had not been able to locate the bag and could not explain how it got lost ...
Sweden investigates lost WikiLeaks luggage
Associated Press
September 3, 2013 at 1:32 PM
Updated today at 2:04 PM

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9. ... In the affidavit, Assange suggested that the bag may have been illegally seized "as part

of an intelligence operation with the purpose of gathering information about me." He offered no proof but said all attempts to locate the bag had failed ... According to the affidavit, the "medium-size soft suitcase with tan color, trolley wheels and an extendable handle" disappeared when Assange traveled from Stockholm to Berlin on September 27, 2010 ...
Assange wants missing suitcase investigated
KARL RITTER
Last updated 05:11 04/09/2013

[randome]

10. Geeze, what a small thinker. Why not mention the suitcase also contained 500 grand?

I mean, if you're going to list stuff you can't prove, why not go long?
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