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FBI Paid Informant Inside WikiLeaks
An anonymous reader writes with this excerpt from Wired: "On an August workday in 2011, a cherubic 18-year-old Icelandic man named Sigurdur 'Siggi' Thordarson walked through the stately doors of the U.S. embassy in Reykjavik, his jacket pocket concealing his calling card: a crumpled photocopy of an Australian passport. The passport photo showed a man with a unruly shock of platinum blonde hair and the name Julian Paul Assange. Thordarson was long time volunteer for WikiLeaks with direct access to Assange and a key position as an organizer in the group. With his cold war-style embassy walk-in, he became something else: the first known FBI informant inside WikiLeaks. For the next three months, Thordarson served two masters, working for the secret-spilling website and simultaneously spilling its secrets to the U.S. government in exchange, he says, for a total of about $5,000. The FBI flew him internationally four times for debriefings, including one trip to Washington D.C., and on the last meeting obtained from Thordarson eight hard drives packed with chat logs, video and other data from WikiLeaks."
I hope he gets killed. He is a traitor to the public of the planet, and a cheap whore of a traitor at that.
Well for one, in the short time this news has been circulating I've heard half a dozen death threats from my immediate circle of acquaintances alone - I dare say someone like this has a bounty on his head from someone somewhere, if not just to simply make an example of what happens to people like that.
There is only one flaw in your argument. And that is that you are almost completely wrong in everything you allege.
If it makes you feel any better, I am not posting as an AC. I just don't think it's necessary (as apparently you didn't - which is in and of itself a testament to your freedom).
Unfortunately you are either deluded, or misinformed. Courts don't order surveillance. They (in some cases) approve it. Oh, I'm deluded? No, check it out. You made that claim. Support it.
Tell me about the 'secret laws'.
Tell me about how YOU have been oppressed.