{"id":11768,"date":"2011-10-24T22:48:10","date_gmt":"2011-10-25T02:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=11768"},"modified":"2011-10-25T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2011-10-25T13:44:59","slug":"at-long-last-wikileaks-about-to-go-under","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/11768\/at-long-last-wikileaks-about-to-go-under\/","title":{"rendered":"At Long Last: WikiLeaks About to Go Under"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem perverse in the current economic atmosphere to take so much pleasure from a business model that fails to work out, but it couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1011\/66697.html#ixzz1bkv7fJe2\" target=\"_blank\">From Politico<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday that the controversial website that\u2019s been a thorn in the side of the U.S. government may close down by the end of the year because of financial problems.<\/p>\n<p>The group has openly lamented the consequences of what it calls a \u201cfinancial blockade\u201d on WikiLeaks by various financial institutions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf WikiLeaks does not find a way to remove this blockade we will simply not be able to continue by the turn of the new year,\u201d Assange said, <a href=\"http:\/\/hosted.ap.org\/dynamic\/external\/search.hosted.ap.org\/wireCoreTool\/Search?SITE=AP&amp;SECTION=HOME&amp;TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&amp;query=wikileaks\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>. \u201cIf we don\u2019t knock down the blockade we simply will not be able to continue.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good riddance. Rather than playing the victim before the London press corps (the context for these remarks), Assange should be thanking his lucky stars that he lives in an age that allows someone of his disrepute such a comfortable denouement. In days past, this story would have come to an end in the hangman&#8217;s noose.<\/p>\n<div style=\"overflow: hidden; color: #000000; background-color: transparent; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; border: medium none;\"><a style=\"color: #003399;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1011\/66697.html#ixzz1bkvkKBXT\"><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It may seem perverse in the current economic atmosphere to take so much pleasure from a business model that fails to work out, but it couldn&#8217;t happen to a nicer guy. From Politico: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Monday that the controversial website that\u2019s been a thorn in the side of the U.S. government may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2561,1611,731,1655],"class_list":["post-11768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-intelligence","tag-julian-assange","tag-national-security","tag-wikileaks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11768"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11771,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11768\/revisions\/11771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}