Assange

Even Time's readers came down on Assange's side, picking him for Person of the Year in a popular vote that ended this week.

He has said he waited weeks to be interviewed by the police in Sweden; they have said that it was Mr. Assange who delayed meeting with them.

In private, however, Assange is often bemused and energetic.

But consider this: Julian Assange did not upload the classified documents and wait for the world to beat a path to his door.

According to the Daily Mail account, Assange did not use a condom at least one time during their sexual activity.

Mr Assange and his creation, WikiLeaks, have made it a more open and transparent place, and hence a bit more just.

Key early WikiLeaks members have fallen out with Assange, and the organization lost control over the rollout of its cable cache months ago.

Protests have taken place in major cities in Spain against the detention in Britain of the Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange.

To blame Assange, or to try to drive diplomacy back to the days of fountain pens and carbon paper?

Mr. Pilger said he knows Mr. Assange and holds him in high regard.

Palin for her part described Assange as "an anti-American operative with blood on his hands. "

IF JULIAN ASSANGE had had his way, this book would not exist.

Authorities in London have arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on an arrest warrant issued by Sweden.

Assange's London lawyers, said that the inclusion of the women's names in the defense documents was an oversight that would be corrected.

The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, appears in court in London for a hearing on his extradition to Sweden.

Swedish police have been trying to contact Mr Assange, but have not yet been able to, she told the BBC.

As the leaks turned into a cascade, Mr Assange was arrested in London, though later released on bail.

Assange's lawyers have said he will fight extradition to Sweden, for fear he could be turned over to the United States.

Mr. Assange noted that it was standard journalistic practice to call government officials and ask for information.

Man behind the WikiLeaks: Julian Assange dropped secret dispatches from wars, but those diplomatic cables really put him in the spotlight.

The video was leaked to Assange from what he said was "a number of military whistleblowers" and published on the Internet.

Mr. Assange said the source who leaked the documents was motivated by a desire 'to call attention to a number of these incidents. '

But, McClelland said he had no knowledge of reports that the United States has asked Australia to cancel Assange's passport.

Because after all, I was as well-known at the time, when that assault was made, as Julian Assange is today.

Nonetheless, a few walls in Quito have been spray-painted with an end-of-days-like slogan: "Assange is coming. Get ready. "

Assange has said he planned to publish up to 15, 000 more documents about the war soon.

Assange is practically a wanted man these days . It's almost as if he were on the run .

WikiLeaks' Julian Assange, a fan of radical transparency if ever there was one, makes a similar argument.

Anybody with such a "peripatetic existence" , as Mr Assange calls it, would wind up a restless soul.

But Assange, an Australian who has no permanent address and travels frequently, is not a U. S. citizen.

Despite Assange's legal troubles, a WikiLeaks spokesman insisted the flow of secret U. S. diplomatic cables would not be affected.

Assange said WikiLeaks did not check the authenticity of the video with the Department of Defense, however.

In February, a court in London ruled that Mr Assange should be extradited to Sweden, although he quickly lodged an appeal.

Julian Assange, the founder, director, frontman, guiding spirit of global whistleblowing service WikiLeaks looks a bit odd for a start.

To his supporters Mr Assange is a hero of radical transparency, fearlessly exposing double standards at the heart of power.

The other woman alleges Mr. Assange had sex with her while she was asleep, again failing to wear a condom despite knowing she required it.

US filmmaker and activist Michael Moore has offered 20, 000 dollars to help WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange post bail in London.

However, Mr. Assange remained in custody pending a hearing on an appeal by the prosecutor, which would take place within the next 48 hours.

"If there is ever a time it was safe for me to go, it is now, " Assange assured him.

Mr Assange enjoys the protection of several liberal democracies, but is not really accountable to any of them.

Some of Mr. Assange's former colleagues in WikiLeaks have quit the group in recent weeks after disputes with him.

That contrasts with the initial portrait provided by Defense Department officials of a young man taken advantage of by Mr. Assange.

Assange fathered him in his teens with his then-girlfriend.

Assange supplied British police with contact details upon his arrival in October, the newspaper reported.

We regarded Assange throughout as a source, not as a partner or collaborator, but he was a man who clearly had his own agenda.

"It is grossly improper and irresponsible" for Assange and his website to publish that information, he said.

The other has said Assange had sex with her without a condom while she was sleeping.

WIKILEAKS editor-in-chief Julian Assange might be unpopular with the US and its allies, but he's still mummy's little boy.

Assange had been granted bail on Tuesday but spent the next two days in prison while Swedish prosecutors appealed the decision.

The deal, Mr. Bogaards said, was initiated by one of Mr. Assange's lawyers in mid-December and was signed in a matter of days.

Mr Assange's lawyer said he detected "dark forces" (ie, America) at work, and promised that his client would fight any extradition attempts.

In a short statement outside the court, Mr Assange said he was considering his next steps.

A week ago, Assange, founder of WikiLeaks, seemed like a shoe-in.

Ms Assange said her "highly intelligent" son was brought up without religion, but with a strong code of ethics.

I talked to Assange by phone a few times and heard out his complaints.

For too long, bastards (using Julian Assange's definition) have been able to use America's good reputation as a cover for their misdeeds.

The paper happily splashed its exclusive interview, then followed it with an editorial calling Assange a fool and a hypocrite.

Julian Assange on the Afghanistan war logs: 'They show the true nature of this war'

The oldest, and the only one of Assange's offspring previously reported, is 20-year-old Daniel Assange who lives in Melbourne, Australia.

One woman has claimed that Assange pinned her down to have sex with her and intentionally tore a condom he wore.

Julian Assange may represent the future of news reporting, but he is not a journalist, at least not in the conventional sense.

For almost a year, WikiLeaks has been run from Ellingham Hall, the Norfolk manor where Mr Assange has been living while on bail.

Mr. Assange held the news conference while on a brief break from his effective house arrest on a country estate 100 miles outside London.

While wanted for questioning, Assange has not been charged in Sweden with a crime and has denied any wrongdoing.

"The truth does not need a policy objective, " proclaimed Mr Assange to a nodding Mr Ellsberg.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange handed himself in to British police on Tuesday.

their judgment also said it did not matter that Mr Assange has not yet been accused of an offence in Sweden.

Meanwhile, a lawyer for Mr. Assange, 39, said he strongly denied that he had encouraged any attacks on behalf of WikiLeaks.

According to the police report, the woman managed to get an invitation to go out for lunch with Assange and his entourage after the seminar.

The founder of the WikiLeaks website Julian Assange has been arrested in London.

It is under this wider definition of the word that police wish to question Assange.

Assange can be bad tempered with colleagues, as Jobs famously is, but he needs to step up on the consequences of what he does.

Thank you wikileaks and in particular Julian Assange. Now will the US of A please leave him alone to carry on his good work.

Shortly after asking his son to join WikiLeaks in 2007, Assange left Australia permanently. Since then, the two have had no contact.

"In terms of journalism efficiency, I think we discovered a lot with a small amount of resources, " Assange said.

Many see founder Julian Assange as a hero, but others, including the Pentagon, consider him a threat to national security.

Labor Left MP Maria Vamvakinou told the Australian on Monday that she condoned Assange's release of the classified material.

Mr Assange certainly seems to be no fan of the US.

At such a time, the less attention that is paid to Mr Assange, the better.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange says he had to sell the rights to his autobiography to cover legal costs and keep his website going.

The man Assange really ought to emulate is, ironically, the revolutionary founder of his chief adversary, the US government.

Mr. Assange was denied bail at his first court appearance a week ago.

But the U. K. court said it appeared possible that Mr. Assange had tried to evade questioning while he was in Sweden.

But as the New Yorker piece makes clear, Assange and his fellow activists are less interested in news than in making a political impact.

Assange says he plans to publish the second set of documents within the next month.

'This financial blockade is an existential threat to WikiLeaks, ' Julian Assange, the head of WikiLeaks, said here Monday.

A former Wikileaks volunteer and a former friend of Assange both independently confirmed the number to us.

He dismisses Julian Assange's comparison between the war logs and East Germany's Stasi secret police files.

There is no case against Julian Assange, we have his Swedish lawyer here, we have so much more information.

That may sound a bit quixotic, but Assange and his associates appear the opposite of benighted.

Photographers hold cameras to the window of a prison van believed to be carrying WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

It was not publicly known where Assange was being held, since British police never reveal that for privacy and security reasons.

As she unpacked her computer, she asked Assange how he was planning to delegate the work on Project B.

Sources close to the woman said that issues arose during the relationships about Assange's willingness to use condoms.

Assange is also the focus of a U. S. probe for his release of diplomatic cables, some containing sensitive information.

Assange seemed, even before the extradition hearing, to be suffering, finding no pleasure in the work; he seemed to be burdened.

Someone apparently found an old Internet dating profile posted by WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and it has been posted online.

Mr. Assange has come under intense pressure after publishing hundreds of thousands of secret U. S. government documents in recent months.

That woman also accused of Assange of molesting her in a way "designed to violate her sexual integrity" several days later.

"He just kept to himself. " Another student, Peter Graham, told the newspaper of a kinder Assange.

Sweden's prosecution service denied that the case was part of a conspiracy to target Mr Assange.

If it is a real democracy, then why have they put Mr. Assange away in jail?

Mr. Assange has come under intense pressure after publishing thousands of classified U. S. government documents in recent months.

Julian Assange, WikiLeaks' founder, claims to have five gigabytes of material from a BofA executive's computer hard drive.

Sweden has strongly denied any political motivation or involvement from Washington in its attempts to extradite or investigate Mr. Assange.

To be fair, Assange's group has run up against its own financial problems since last summer.

By shading his radicalism and collaborating with mainstream outlets, Mr. Assange created a comfort zone for his partners in journalism.

The latest project of Assange's whistleblower website is the gradual release of tens of thousands of US diplomatic cables.

Assange complained that we "psychologicalized" Manning and gave short shrift to his "political awakening. "

A classified CIA memo has been posted on WikiLeaks, just as the Website's founder, Julian Assange, 39, had promised.

A spokesman for London's Metropolitan Police declined to say whether police were looking for Mr. Assange.

Assange was arrested not for his website, but for sex crime charge, which he denied.

Ny also decided that another complaint against Assange should be investigated on suspicion of "sexual coercion and sexual molestation. "

Mr. Assange has given conflicting accounts of the handling of his case in Sweden.

Police in Sweden have withdrawn an arrest warrant for the founder of the Wikileaks whistleblowing website, Julian Assange.

Assange must spend every night at the mansion and will be electronically tagged so the police can track his movements, the judge said.

Assange was wanted for questioning after two women accused him of sexual misconduct in separate encounters in Sweden over the summer.

They said Mr. Assange tried to meet with Swedish prosecutors several times before leaving Sweden, but was rebuffed.

Tall, thin and dressed in a white shirt, Mr Assange was described as looking calm in court as the details were read out.

In a sense, Zuckerberg and Assange are two sides of the same coin. Both express a desire for openness and transparency.

The international police agency INTERPOL approved a "red notice" for the arrest of the founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange.

Assange, 39, a former computer hacker now at the center of a global controversy after WikiLeaks released a trove of classified U.

Mr. Assange's arrest comes amid a global furor over WikiLeaks's release of thousands of leaked classified documents.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's most recent comments about what he does and why he does it were on CBS News' 60 Minutes this past Sunday.

It's clear that Assange, like most of us, was shaped by his upbringing.

WikiLeaks spokesman said Mr Assange could continue to help run the site from Suffolk.

While on the run from Swedish and American authorities, Assange has had to use this secure base for his files.

But we don't know yet, and maybe Assange's year will be 2011, or maybe he won't have a year at all.

Ms Rosander said there were two separate allegations against Mr Assange, one of rape and the other of molestation.

"Secrecy is important for many things, " said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in an interview with TIME over Skype on Monday.

That process could take up to 48 hours, and Julian Assange must remain in prison in the meantime.

Mr. Assange has repeatedly denied the sexual-assault allegations and said in court that he will fight his extradition to Sweden.

A spokesman for the website says the arrest of Assange does not affect plans for the release of more documents.

"I don't think it would make much of a difference either way, " Assange said.

Wearing a gray duffle coat over a dark suit and tie, Mr. Assange arrived with his British lawyer, Mark Stephens.

Mr. Assange's lawyers released their outline within minutes of the court hearing.

Mr. Assange was arrested last month in the U. K. on a European warrant issued by Sweden.

"He's innocent, that I can tell you, " Bjorn Hurtig, Assange's Stockholm-based lawyer, told AOL News today.

They are also a reminder that, although Mr Assange makes an easy target, he has interesting things to say, however controversial.

Judge Howard Riddle, however, avoided the larger ramifications of the Assange situation and ruled narrowly.

Mr Assange is in Britain awaiting a decision by the High Court on the appeal against his extradition to Sweden to face sex assault charges.

Mr Assange has been living under strict bail conditions with a wealthy supporter since his arrest in December.

Up till now, WikiLeaks hasn't violated any laws of any countries or areas, and no government has sued Julian Assange because of WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks founder Assange says he wants help removing such information from the documents, but no organization has agreed to do so.

Assange told The Sunday Times newspaper in Britain that he agreed to book deals due to financial pressures from legal issues.

The move was expected after Swedish prosecutors said several days ago that they would seek an international arrest warrant for Mr. Assange.

Mr Assange has been living under strict bail conditions with a wealthy backer since his arrest in December.

The status of the case was summarized tonight by Julian Assange, Investigations Editor at Wikileaks.

Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden about allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He denies the claims.

A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Wednesday, AP reported.

The Swedish judicial authorities has argued that Mr Assange posed a substantial flight risk and should be kept in prison.

Mr. Assange was denied bail and remains in custody pending a hearing in the U. K. next week.

Assange has contended that, as an Australian citizen, he is not subject to American law.

Four and a half hours after being granted bail, Julian Assange emerged into the snow outside the high court.

Assange was refused bail by a British court on Tuesday after he was arrested over allegations of sex crimes in Sweden.

A previously obscure computer geek-turned-gadfly called Julian Assange turned the worlds of diplomacy and journalism upside down.

Swedish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on suspicion of molestation and rape.

After a recent stay in Sweden he faces several charges of sexual assault, which he denies.

Assange's lawyers argue he has not been formally charged so the extradition request is invalid.

Mr Assange's lawyers had challenged a European Arrest Warrant (EAW), normally enforced automatically, on four main grounds.

Mr Assange has often claimed to be under surveillance during his travels.

Mr. Assange has denied allegations by two women that he raped and molested them in encounters in Sweden this summer.

Mr Assange had been held in prison in south London since being denied bail last week.

One question Anderson asked that I thought poignant: "Is Assange a dangerous troublemaker or a hero? "

Both Assange and the Swedish government are entitled to appeal against the ruling if the judge rules against them.

The charge was dropped last week for lack of evidence that Assange had raped a Swedish woman, but the woman's lawyer appealed the decision.

Mr. Assange was initially granted bail on Tuesday, but British litigators acting for Sweden quickly appealed that ruling.

In other fields, US economist Joseph Stiglitz, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and the founder of Wikileaks Julian Assange were on the list.

Assange was furious, saying 'Some things are supposed to be private.

He pointed to an ABC News story on a young soldier who has been charged with leaking sensitive material to Assange.

A British judge has ruled that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden to face allegations of sex crimes.

Extradition from Britain to Sweden is normally a formality, though Mr Assange's lawyers argue that "ulterior motives" are at work.

extradition A British judge on Tuesday denied bail for Assange after he told a London co urt he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden.

Mr. Assange made a court appearance Tuesday; a judge set a Feb. 7 date for his next hearing in the extradition matter.

Physicists [Assange was trained at University of Melbourne in physics] look at extreme circumstances to understand a situation.

Leif Silbersky, a lawyer for Mr. Assange, said his client is innocent, and 'waiting for the prosecutor to get in touch.

Mr. Assange, in a dark suit and white shirt, spoke little during the hearing.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is an Australian citizen.

Life may not be much fun for Mr Assange. But being a lawyer for WikiLeaks is a most interesting job.

As Assange and his site become more active, Sweden offers tough laws to protect freedom of speech.

But the US justice department is considering a prosecution for espionage, and has subpoenaed Mr Assange's Twitter account.

Assange described it as a "harm minimization" policy.

Wikileaks' Assange declined to discuss the organizations' budget with Threat Level.

Stengel asked Assange if U. S. Army PFC Bradley Manning, now detained in Quantico, Va. , was the sole source of the megaleak.

The meeting went smoothly, even after Assange arrived.

British judge on Tuesday denied bail for Assange after he told a London court he intends to fight his extradition to Sweden.

"What can we ask M to do ? " Jonsdottir asked . Assange, engrossed in what he was doing, didn't reply .

Mr. Assange told Computerworld magazine in 2009 that his organization had a trove of files on Bank of America.

Julian Assange may be paranoid, but they are out to get him.

After the hearing in July, judges did not give a date for their decision on Mr Assange's bid to overturn a judgment made in February.

Assange had his share of controversy as well.

Assange lives mainly in Europe, traveling from country to country.

Assange has denied any wrongdoing, asserting that the sex in both cases was consensual.

Assange's Swedish lawyer has said his client believed foreign powers were influencing Sweden.

But while support for WikiLeaks' project remains high in Sweden, Assange's popularity has dipped.

In his writing online, especially on Twitter, Assange is quick to lash out at perceived enemies.

Yet for someone so mindful of secrecy, Mr Assange also shows an unerring knack for attracting attention.

In a sense, Zuckerberg and Assange are two sides of the same coin.

Assange has to be careful about his personal security.

The US is believed to be considering how to indict Assange over the the huge leak.

The founder of the Wikileaks website, Julian Assange, has been denied residency in Sweden.

Last week Sweden issued a warrant for Mr Assange's arrest over allegations of rape and sexual molestation.

The Swedish allegations against Mr. Assange sprang up separately last weekend.

Swedish authorities have not charged him, but want to question Assange about accusations of sexual misconduct made by two women last August.

Furthermore, Assange is finding plenty of friends in Sweden.

Assange wrote: "The charges are without basis and their issue at this moment is deeply disturbing. "

The editor of the New York Times says he cut some names and other details after talking to officials.

Lawyers for Assange will try again Tuesday to win bail for the WikiLeaks founder.

Assange claims that the relations were consensual.

What all of these sites have in common is that their owners have in some way impeded the work of WikiLeaks or its founder, Julian Assange.

Chief Prosecutor Eva Finne, in a statement on the prosecutor's website, said she has asked police to bring in Mr. Assange for questioning.

Assange has gone underground since WikiLeaks controversially began publishing more than 250, 000 secret U. S. government documents.

Mr. Assange, who has confirmed the sexual encounters but denied the assault allegations, hasn't been charged in either case.

Assange's arrest warrant was issued by Sweden's International Public Prosecution Office in Gothenburg on November 18.

Assange denounced the article to me and in various public forums as "a smear. "

Given that we already had all of the documents, Assange had little choice.

Assange founded the WikiLeaks website that has released some 250, 000 secret U. S. diplomatic cables over the Internet.

Assange gives no reason for why he's doing this beyond an abstract sense that he is fighting a lonely, pure battle against Power.

In fact, say German media reports, the hackers felt he had mishandled relations with Mr Assange.

Mr. Stephens said British and U. S. police and security services know where Mr. Assange is.

Mr Assange's impulsive, nomadic temperament was forged during his youth.

Assange's lawyers said they would decide in days whether to appeal to the Supreme Court.

As Britain's Supreme Court rejects Julian Assange's bid to reopen his extradition case.

Mr Assange is fighting extradition to Sweden to face questioning about allegations of sexual assault.

"America should give Assange a medal, " says a headline in the Financial Times.

Julian Assange, the secretive founder of WikiLeaks, told Forbes that he's planning a leak early next year related to 'a big U. S. bank. '

According to a police report obtained by the Daily Mail in August, she and Assange had sex, and at some point the condom broke.

There's a new website being created by former WikiLeaks employee and Julian Assange's right-hand man Daniel Domscheit-Berg.

The move is a blunder because it glorifies Mr Assange, and also because it confuses a cause with a symptom.

Much as Mr Ellsberg did, Mr Assange expects to be prosecuted under the Espionage Act and may soon need a safe haven.

US authorities, keen to make an example of Mr Assange to dissuade further leaks, are exploring ways to prosecute him.

Assange's Wikileaks, by comparison, has made few friends in high places.

Mr Assange will remain in custody until the appeal is heard.

Ms. Khan and Mr. Loach said they didn't know Mr. Assange personally but wanted to support the principle of free speech.

The US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has welcomed Mr Assange's arrest.

53pm: Remarkably, Assange is still speaking at the Frontline Club (see summary 12. 55pm).

After the hearing, Mark Stephens, Mr. Assange's U. K. lawyer, called the Swedish investigation a 'persecution and not a prosecution. '

Assange, 39, is wanted by Swedish authorities on allegations of sex crimes, including rape.

Julian Assange says a blockade by US finance companies has cut off 95% of Wikileaks' revenue.

Assange was appealing a lower court ruling last February.

It doesn't appear from this book that Assange is particularly prone to real reflection.

Wikileaks founder and editor Julian Assange was granted in 2008 The Economist's New Media Award.

Unless he gains leave to appeal, Mr Assange will be sent to Sweden within ten days.

And what would the Admiral have thought about the conflict over Mr. Assange?

Meanwhile, Assange's lawyer said Tuesday that a new editor in chief of WikiLeaks would step in during Assange's absence.

In granting bail, Judge Howard Riddle ordered that Mr. Assange appear again in court on Jan.

The Australian reported that Assange, 39, "showed no emotion when the judge issued his verdict. "

It is not yet clear what aspects of a tumultuous rise to fame Mr. Assange, a 39-year-old Australian, will cover in his book.

Mr Assange's lawyer speculates on different motivations, hinting darkly that a "honeytrap has been sprung" .

What can Assange learn from Jobs and what can we learn from both of them?