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you need to know this joanna side has arrested a london the weekly standard
turn itself into one with the or is this going
in relation to a sex crimes investigation in sweden
assigned just conf accused of having consentual but unprotected sex in that
country
which is illegal
accusers a woman who works for the anti castro group funded by the c_i_a_
assigns is denied bail was denied bail today by a british industry by british
judge which means he will stay in jail angela's next year and december
fourteenth
let defense team says this is just the beginning
abhar
dot the jobs today say that he wishes to see the evidence himself
i think he was impressed by the fact that a number of people were prepared to
stand up
off on behalf of mr starr's and her family is in the simpson no
circumstances i think we will see another ben application something live
off the table an iceberg
yesterday assigned his legal defense fund thirty one thousand pounds british
pounds
was frozen by a swedish bank
affect his chances to receive a fair trial should come to that
a spokesperson for wickedly explain the signs as a restful not impair the site
and the release of more sex sensitive documents will continue
also the site has no mention yet
or intention
of dispatching the doomsday files that assignment assigns warn would be
releasing cases arrested or killed
however should the united states succeeded in having signed extradited
here for crimes still unknown
the release of those file seems highly unlikely
so what happens now
one organization with a particular interest in the case is the center for
constitutional rights
executive director of this war joins me now this welcomed the program
thanks very much for having me on thanks for showing up at our new york studios
tonight
what do you make of these charges against aside
well you know as a human rights organizations in the constitutional
rights really does believe
that these charges should be taken seriously and dealt with in a
professional legal manner
of the more important concern for us
here in in the united states at the center for constitutional rights
is what exactly is the united states up to one of the things that we're very
concerned about
is whatever happens with uh... julian the signs in europe that the u_s_ is
positioning itself to extradite him due to the united states
for charges that have yet to be filed
um... there but i do think that it really does begin to stand spell the end
of our democracy
if i the united states is going to pull him in and to charge him with crimes for
sexually ob keeping this government transparent
he was denied bail by the british
is that standard procedure a minor case like this i mean look at my
understanding is correct to the charges against him
basically he's charged with having had sex
twice once for the kind of a burst of once with no comment
yet that's though that's a little unusual and i think it does
uh... give us a sense of howell
the u_k_ sweden in certainly the united states are going to be treating
uh... during the signs
normally what happens with dale applications is that the court just
needs to be assured that the person who is uh... i've been accused
is going to show up to court
and here i understand the julian assigned showed up with a very big
support team with people that we're putting up money sheraton to to assure
that he would come back to court at risk of losing their money bucky of course
in his lawyers said that he would be of back in in in the courtroom
and that the court decided to too
denied bail so that there was no way that he could be a limb self-doubt in a
time what's really interesting
is that i think the media has talked about his his case as if he's been a
fugitive business as if he's been underground when in fact uh... i know
that his lawyers have offered
over a period of several weeks to make an available
to be interviewed on these charges
and let's also remember that build the warrant that has been issued is not to
put him in jail to face charges the warren is actually
to interrogate him and there's simply no reason why that couldn't have happened
without having put him in jail in tonight and they'll or for that matter
couldn't swim of senator cater to the u_k_ emma coaches sat down with a master
questions
and that absolutely could've happened and then frankly i think should have
happened
given the all that's been going on here in the real concern
that the united states is going to be manipulating this process for some isn't
that advance that really what it looks like is happening is that the u_k_
doesn't want us to extradite him to the u_s_ but the swiss witness perfectly
willing to
if they can get him then we can get him
and if that's the case
today in nigeria
filed charges against *** cheney for bribery conspiracy and obstruction of
justice
and we for thirty five years that we've had a
mutual xmission treaty with nigeria
ad that you know what are we going to arrested cheney and handing over the
nigerians
well you know i've done that probably should
but we definitely don't want and i think i think that that is exactly what the
concerned here is tom
that the united states is really gaming the system up to bring him in the end to
deal with what to basically possibly at him for things
that the new york times is already doing in other newspapers are doing around the
world and i think the really horrible park is that a recorder and the attorney
general are doing a lot of saber rattling around this
but this is the same attorney general that refused to prosecute
ample evidence of torture
with respect to guantanamo abu grabe and other places yet
bob they seem very fit to prosecute
up the very person in the very group
that made it vat torture come to light and that doesn't make sense at all
vince what is so the center for constitutional rights interest in the
wicked leaks case
well we're human rights organizations weaver filed the first desouza in
guantanamo
we've filed cases against the bush administration and the obama
administration relating to state secrets wea recently on the case that's doing it
the owl occupies a normal often the case of the men in yemen what our interests
is
is that we don't want to see
the bearish wind at the very important room goals of transparency and
accountability which has been lacking both in the last administration and in
this current one op fall prey to
the hysteria and rhetoric
of the right wing in this country we want to see justice done injustice is
not done
by silencing the very people that are keeping the government open
if you find a more than coincidental that these charges got serious interpol
issue a warrant
an american international and international companies
stopped hosting and handling funds for which he wakes
all within a day or two of assigned saying that his next document dump would
be fifty gigabytes of data from bank of america non-american financial
institutions
if only we had wiki leaks around
to do a document dump of what's going on behind the scenes right now with the
government in the corporations i think people would be shocked but not
surprised is very clear to me
that the government the star government is doing everything in its power
to silence
um... embarrassing secrets and frankly
evidence of wrongdoing there is clearly going to be coming out one way or the
other hand i understand the wiki leaks is going to do his best to get those
documents on anything which they should
but the some of these bankers are billionaires themselves an affair to
position where are we doing script
really something that might cause them to end up in jail
is there any evidence that these billionaire bankers are are are playing
this game that they're pushing this process
well i i i i haven't seen anything specifically about that but i don't
denoted at all it's one of these situations where you have that much
information
people with power get very nervous and what they do is they use their power to
keep that information from coming out and their clearly doing whatever they
can legally or a legally with the government were outside of the
government
to keep that information secret not because he's committed a crime
but simply because they don't want to be embarrassed on the world stage
this form of the center for constitutional rights vince thanks so
much
thanks very much for having
as joyous times was taken in the cost of this morning an op ed was published in
the australian
written by his own hand
and assigned quotes an unlikely person rupert murdoch
he says
in nineteen fifty eight a young river murdoch then owner an editor of adelaide
split new
is wrote
in the race between secrecy in truth the seems inevitable the truth will always
win
and a quote
unfortunately somewhere the intervening fifty years rupert murdoch lost his way
over foxnews and his colleagues other cable outlets appear to have as well
secrecy won the race and because of that week he leaks is more important now