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What I should have written was: The BBC has interviewed Anna Ardin, but hasn’t said why it’s now OK to name her, nor why it wasn’t before:
https://www.craigmurray.org.uk/archives/2012/08/naming-anna-ardin-on-newsnight/
According to Ardin, there was nothing unusual about Julian Assange’s behaviour with her; all and any men might need to be reported to police:
– “I want him to be seen as a normal guy. That’s what normal guys do sometimes. They cross other people’s boundaries.”
So there you go; any man might be sent to Belmarsh for five years.
OH. That leaves no link on this page to the article I was referring to:
Bump!
Sorry site team; I want this one on the side bar – though it was my own fault I pushed it off in the first place.
BERLINER ZEITUNG
Short interview with Gabriel Shipton
“Gabriel Shipton, brother of Julian Assange: “Baerbock simply remained silent”
After 14 years, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is a free man again. His brother Gabriel Shipton tells the Berliner Zeitung how this came about.”
https://archive.is/t5QlU* * *
Since Shipton mentions the new dangers to journalism –
“Amnesty International accuses Germany and 20 other European countries of increasing repression against peaceful protests, stigmatizing dissenting opinions and stirring up racist resentment against Arabs.”German-Foreign-Policy-Blog, short report:
https://archive.is/sPo8iIt might focus on Arabs now but the system of course may turn against anyone deemed adequate for attack.
The demise of THE INTERCEPT is going on: Now co-founder Jeremy Scahill is leaving afte ten years to do:
“Drop Site News: Jeremy Scahill on Launching Investigative News Outlet with Ryan Grim”
https://www.democracynow.org/2024/7/9/jeremy_scahill_drop_site_newsJulian Assange is to give evidence before the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe on October first in a statement given by wikileaks.
Assange to Testify at Council of Europe in a piece from Consortiumnews.Assange “will address the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France on Oct. 1 after he was granted Status as a Political Prisoner by a rapporteur of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE), WikiLeaks said today.”
I realise I am reviving a thread from April but I didn’t know where else to put it and I think it’s news worthy.
a preceding discussion here:
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/09/27/watch-assange-to-speak/
“discusses Julian Assange’s upcoming public appearance, his first since his plea deal, as well as proposed changes to the Espionage Act, with former Australian diplomat Alison Broinowski, interviewed by CN‘s Elizabeth Vos and Cathy Vogan.”
34 min.Assange’s scheduled address to the PACE went ahead:
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/10/1/wikileaks-founder-assange-says-pleaded-guilty-to-journalism-to-be-freed
– “I am not free today because the system worked. I am free today after years of incarceration because I pleaded guilty to journalism,” Assange told the Committee on Legal Affairs and Human Rights of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) on Tuesday.– “I pled guilty to seeking information from a source. I pled guilty to obtaining information from a source. And I pled guilty to informing the public what that information was.”
Consortium News has the full text of his opening remarks today 01/10/2024.
I don’t know if he has further sessions upcoming.El Pais reporting on the CIA erasing 17k emails by the Spanish soldier who spied on Assange:
17,256 emails deleted from the former Spanish military officer who spied on Assange for the CIA, according to an expert report
The disk onto which the police transferred Morales’s phones was in the custody of the National Courtmachine-translation:
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The IOmega hard drive onto which police stored information obtained from the phones and computers of David Morales, the former Spanish military officer investigated for spying on Julian Assange for the CIA, was erased while it was under judicial custody and sealed in a cabinet at the National Court, according to an expert report from the Australian cyberactivist’s defense.The tampering allegedly led to the disappearance of 17,256 emails from various accounts, including the suspect’s own. This access to the hard drive in the custody of the National Court’s Investigative Court No. 5, which is investigating Morales for various crimes, allegedly occurred on September 9, 2020.
The Wikileaks founder’s experts affirm that they have found “modifications and alterations” to this drive after September 17, 2019, the date on which Morales was arrested at the headquarters of his company, UC Global, SL, in Jerez de la Frontera. The arrest and search occurred weeks after an investigation by this newspaper published audio and video recordings of the spying on Assange and his lawyers, ordered by Morales during the activist’s stay at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.
The forensic report, to which EL PAÍS has had access, states that the deletion was not the result of any automated software process, “but rather an action carried out by someone in the police unit” that intervened in the search and dumping of the devices. “It can be said that the police unit involved may have been interested in hiding information,” maintain experts Manuel Huerta and José Manuel Martínez. The police have declined to respond to this newspaper’s questions.
Sealed in a cabinet
The alleged tampering with this disk, which had been stored and guarded for more than five years in a courtroom cabinet, was discovered after the Wikileaks founder’s lawyers verified that the police had provided the judge with a partial dump of the contents of Morales’s Samsung S7 G930F phone. A key device in the investigation because protected witnesses in the legal case against the owner of the company UC Global, SL confessed that they had configured the device to allegedly communicate with the CIA. A detail that the officers were informed of before their arrest.
Despite the warning, the police handed the magistrate complete dumps of all the phones, computers, and electronic devices seized, except for the aforementioned Samsung. This led to the deletion of the Userdata folder, which contained conversations held by Morales on the WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram, Proton Mail, and Skype applications. A treasure trove of information about this former collaborator of the National Intelligence Center (CNI) that has since disappeared.
The Samsung S7 was also the only phone from which information was extracted on-site during the searches and raids of the police operation, a practice that was not carried out with any of the other phones and devices seized, according to the police response to the magistrate’s requests. A different device was used for its extraction, which, according to Assange’s experts, was registered as a Desktop BOIQ F96. The rest was obtained using the UFED Touch tool. Thus, the file uploaded by the police unit to the judicial cloud—where all the evidence obtained is downloaded and which is accessed by the parties involved in the case—is not the original and complete UFDX (Universal Forensic Data Report) file from the Samsung S7, but only the UFDR (Universal Forensic Data Exchange) file, which is derived from the previous one but does not represent a complete copy of the device.Police Paralysis
Carlos Bautista, the lead prosecutor in the case, did not hide his displeasure over the disappearance of this file in his writings. He described it as “essential” and, like the plaintiffs, requested that it be searched “because it contains more data than what was made available to the parties.” “It is extremely striking that the police unit has handed over UFDR and UFDX files from the other devices and has not done so specifically for this one,” criticized the public prosecutor. He also accused the officers of paralysis in their cooperation with the court due to their “exasperating” attitude. “slowness” in analyzing all the seized items.
Judge Santiago Pedraz summoned the Cybercrime Unit officers in September to appear in court and dump the contents of the only IOmega drive they handed over after the arrest. This device, which has been in judicial custody since 2019, is where the information from the Samsung S7 phone was allegedly stored. The goal was to recover the full image (UFDX), but no trace of the missing file was found.
Assange’s representatives believe that on the day Morales was arrested, the officers used, in addition to the IOmega, another hard drive or disk.
A parallel electronic device was used to download information from the Samsung S7, the key phone in the investigation. This phone was stolen from the judicial investigation.
Pedraz and Pedro Martínez, the new prosecutor in the case, have rejected the plaintiffs’ request to open a separate case and take statements from the nine police officers who participated in the operation, as well as to inform the General Directorate of the Police, because the manipulation of computer evidence is not within the jurisdiction of the National Court. Both have responded to Assange’s request that he can file a complaint against the police with the competent body.
Other omissionsThis is not the first time that the plaintiffs have alleged that the police have omitted relevant information contained in the electronic devices seized from the owner of UC Global, SL. A new dump of the former marine’s laptop revealed more than 213.1 gigabytes, 551,616 files, and 973 email archives that were hidden from the judicial investigator. This is the difference between the two copies, the one submitted by the police and the one obtained by Assange’s defense team.
Among the new files, Morales had a folder called “Operations & Projects” with directories sorted by geographic area and the services to be provided. In the North American section, within the USA directory, there is a folder named “CIA” and another named “Videos,” where the recordings of the Wikileaks founder’s meetings recorded by the hidden cameras and microphones of UC Global, SL, were archived.
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