Obama Continues To Wage Aggressive War On Whistleblowers To Protect His Secret Drone War!

• Obama Continues To Wage Aggressive War On Whistleblowers To Protect His Secret Drone War! 
  by Steve Watson, Prisonplanet.com 
  WikiLeaks flags Obama’s “persecution” of anti-secrecy activists, secret killings; Assange Slams President as ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing’
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  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange polarizes people.  Some love him, some hate him, others believe he is, whether knowingly or not, a  useful tool for the spy hierarchy in the US and elsewhere in the West. Assange’s  reaction to the reelection of Obama is worthy of note, however. Not only because  he is one of the only high profile dissenting voices in the public eye, but also  because he has experienced first hand how Obama has instituted one of the most  extreme under the radar crack-downs on dissenters in history.
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  In a telephone interview with AFP from his asylum  at Ecuador’s London embassy, Assange urged that Obama’s reelection should not be  any cause for celebration.
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  “It’s better to have a sheep in wolf’s clothing than a wolf  in sheep’s clothing.” Assange said, adding that he expects the Obama  administration to continue attacking and persecuting anti-secrecy activists.
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  “All of the activities against WikiLeaks by the United States  have occurred under an Obama administration.” Assange said, adding that the  Republican party has not acted to try and restrain such excessive activity.
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  “There is no reason to believe that will change — in fact,  the Republicans will push the administration into ever greater excesses.”  Assange noted.
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  “The re-election of Barack Obama coincides with the 899th day  of Bradley Manning’s confinement,” Assange said, referring to the the soldier,  currently being held in solitary confinement in a military prison, accused of  leaking a thousands of classified military documents to WikiLeaks in 2010  relating to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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  Yesterday, a federal judge in Virginia ruled that a  2-year-old federal grand jury probe into WikiLeaks is still “ongoing,”.
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  WikiLeaks released a statement echoing Assange’s remarks,  noting that Obama has forged a “state within a state” that is “replete with  secret laws, secret budgets, secret bailouts, secret killings, secret mass  spying, and secret detention without charge”.
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