Jacob Appelbaum, Wikileaks Volunteer, Detained At U.S. Border For Three Hours

[kpete]

Source: Huffington Post

Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based volunteer hacker for Wikileaks, touched down at Newark Internation Airport in New Jersey on his way back from Holland last Thursday, and was promptly whisked away by U.S. customs officials for a "random" security search.

The hacker told CNET he was interrogated as to the whereabouts of his boss -- Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, who has gone underground since the U.S. government announced it was hunting him -- as well as "his attitudes to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and on the philosophy behind Wikileaks."

Appelbaum's laptop was briefly confiscated, but investigators kept his three cell phones.

Sources told CNET that Appelbaum declined to comment on any Wikileaks-related questions without a lawyer. Still, the investigators managed to briefly confiscate his laptop, and kept his phones.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/08/02/jacob-appelbaum-wikileaks_n_667665.html

[tomm2thumbs]

1. too funny - he has them running in circles like a frustrated pack of wolves in heat

gotta love it. have to wonder what is in the files he uploaded that the govt is so hot and heavy about it

[Pavulon]

6. Have to wonder if they will arrest him

and if the scum who dumped those documents has come to terms he will die in federal custody. Bet he has no shoelaces..

Its all funny until someone is on 23 hr lock down, then it may be sad..

[greiner3]

2. And so it begins...

[TBF]

3. Run, Julian, run. nt

[Bodhi BloodWave]

4. Time for a new spinoff series of one of my fav games when younger

Where in the world is Julian Assange :D

[Pavulon]

5. Plenty of time to take an image of the drive..

actions have consequences.

[Arctic Dave]

7. Actions do have consequences, I wonder if the government and their

bitchy little thugs will ever learn that.

[populistdriven]

10. i bet his key board was nice and clean when he got it back

[sabrina 1]

11. Like illegal wars and torture and lying to the people

about all of it. There haven't been enough consequences yet for those with all that blood on their hands.

The media should have been doing this job and if they had over a million people and the thousands of U.S. troops placed in danger and now dead, by this lying government, would still be alive today.

I hope there's plenty more truth leaked since it's the only way the American people will ever get any, making it difficult for them to lie.

But I really blame Congress who allowed a bunch of treasonous neo-cons, led by Dick Cheney to commit war crimes on a daily basis and continue to fund it.

We need thousands of Julian Assanges to keep corrupt, murdering governments in line. A real free press would suffice, but there is none in this country. So for now we have to rely on the likes of Wikileaks. A first of its kind International News site. I hope the idea catches on.

[Pavulon]

12. And I hope is is a fat honey pot..

and the leaker may have realized that he made a big mistake. He is on suicide watch and will die in federal custody.

I hope it catches on too..

[sabrina 1]

13. Well, I hope it isn't. But if it is that will only discredit this

government even more. As if they can afford to lose any more trust around the world.

As for Manning, it doesn't matter what the site is, if his intentions were to expose information about a war that according to those who know him, disturbed him greatly, remain heroic.

If he did for other reasons, well let him talk. Let HIM tell us why he did it. As a progressive I oppose the death penalty and torture. Sorry you do not share those views.

I hope he will have a fair hearing and that it will be transparent not more of the secrecy that causes so much distrust in this government. And then, I hope he will be released as other whistle-blowers have been and that this government will be held accountable for the killing of so many human beings, if not today, then as is now happening in South America, sometime in the future when we have an administration that returns this country to the rule of law.

[Pavulon]

14. He will not get the death penalty, unless he kills himself

rather than die in florence adx.

What he really did was fuck up DADT for others. For years (this was 90's early 00') I was asked about being a homosexual on a polygraph, to be able to keep a clearance.

Now this guy, for political reasons and because he is an asshole, committed a felony thousands of them actually. The fact that he is gay will not help others who just want to do their job in the military and intelligence community.

I stand by my comment he should and will die in federal custody of old age. Personally I would consider life in Florence worse than death.

[sabrina 1]

15. 'Just want to do their job'. Their job is to defend and protect

the U.S. Constitution. It is their duty after taking that oath, to report illegal activities if they see them. All those who turn a blind eye to assaults on the U.S. Constitution are not doing their job. If they don't understand that, they should not be in the military.

It is unconstitutional for the U.S. government to lie to the American people about war. In doing so, the real criminals, Cheney et al, endangered the security of this country and engaged in the slaughter of innocents, among other war crimes, and in the deaths of U.S troops.

Any information that exposes the lies is vital information for the American people.

Manning is not the criminal here. It's simply amazing that someone like him would arrested when someone like Cheney, now clearly guilty of lying on numerous occasions in public, is still free.

As for whether or not Manning is gay, that is totally irrelevant and if the military were to judge all blacks eg, based on the actions of one person, or all gays, based on the actions of one person, then they are in even shape than it appears at the moment.

Let the American people hear from Manning himself. What are they afraid of? Why has he been spirited away where no one can talk to him? I do not accept anything that is said about him coming from military sources. As we know they make stuff up. Even his sexual orientation, why was that even mentioned? Who cares?

As long as he is kept from communicating, the same way thousands of wrongfully accused 'terrorists' were kept from speaking or having access to the legal system, I believe nothing that is said ABOUT him.

For you to be so accepting of what is being said, not BY him but about him by sources with little credibility, is an example of how this country got into this mess in the first place.

Let Manning speak. Every American has that right and no one should be speaking for him, as is being done right now. And if he dies in prison, it will be another gross injustice as everything about these wars has been since they began.

[Pavulon]

16. Manning gets no platform, no do child rapists. He signed the papers

when he took his clearance. Intelligence communities are in the explicit business of lying. Manning committed the crime, just because I like china and or am greedy does not give me the right to disclose information about classified systems. If I do, I would expect to die in florence adx without ever seeing my family again.

He is a lucky little fucker as if this was ww2 he would have been interrogated and then shot.

You do NOT have the right to access your neighbors email. You do not have the right to tap their phone or track them with satellites.

I assume you know that lying is not illegal, disclosing classified documents is a BIG felony. If the disclosure leads to death penalty status.

Yep, he set gay people back because the intelligence community has always asked about it.

[sabrina 1]

18. So, as I thought. You have accepted the

guilty verdict without trial.

What a sad thing it is for this country, how easily some of us gave up all the rights and principles granted to us by the FFs.

Is this what everyone is supposedly fighting for? So we can be like any third world dictatorship we so hypocritically point fingers at? 'Shoot first and don't even bother to ask questions'?

The Founding Fathers who took such care to write that quaint old document the military swears to protect but apparently only for show, would roll over in their graves if they saw what has become of this country.

Let him speak. He is innocent of anything in this country until convicted. Why do you have a problem with that? What are you afraid he might say?

As for lying being legal? Are you seriously defending Bush/Cheney and the cabal of war criminals that got us into these wars?

[Akoto]

17. Yeah, I really doubt it would matter.

These are folks who are in the habit of retrieving and transmitting confidential information. Do you really think the guy's just going to carry vital data around on his laptop? They're not that stupid.

[chrisa]

8. lol. The US government has egg on its face from this one.

I wonder if they'll further embarass themselves by actually conducting an information war against Wikileaks?

[Pavulon]

9. Whatever they do, Katie Couric will not be talking about it(nt)