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Associated Press Assange demands rape case files before Sweden questions him
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will agree to be questioned by Swedish prosecutors in London over rape allegations, but only if he is given access to the investigation files, his defence said Monday.
"We need to be provided access to the entirety of the proceedings, which for four and half years has been in the hands of the Swedish prosecution and not in the hands of the defence," said Baltasar Garzon, a former Spanish judge who is Assange's lawyer.
Swedish prosecutors offered earlier this month to drop their previous demand that Assange come to Sweden for questioning about the 2010 allegations, marking a significant U-turn in the case that has been deadlocked for nearly five years.
Sweden issued an arrest warrant for Assange in 2010 following allegations from two women in Sweden, one who claimed rape and another who alleged sexual assault.
The Australian former hacker, who has always vehemently denied the allegations and insisted the sexual encounters were consensual, has been ensconced in Ecuador's embassy in London since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden.
He has long offered to be interviewed by prosecutors at the embassy or by video link.
"That offer has always been on the table. It has been repeated again, and again and again, and I am very pleased that the prosecution has finally accepted that offer," Assange said via video feed to a diplomatic conference on how to protect whistleblowers from prosecution.
He added though that "there are details to work through" since three countries were involved and it remained unclear which jurisdiction would apply.
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Trade Minister Andrew Robb says the Trans Pacific Partnership negotiations are at "a make-or-break point" over the next month. Photo: Sanghee Liu
Australian health, environment and public welfare regulation, including plain tobacco packaging legislation, will be open for challenge from largely US-based corporations, if a new deal that is part of the Trans Pacific Partnership goes through.
WikiLeaks has revealed that the Australian government is close to agreement on a wide-ranging trade deal that could allow multinational corporations to challenge these regulations as well as local food safety standards. The new TPP free trade agreement will cover approximately 40 per cent of the world economy.
Intellectual property law expert, Australian National University Associate Professor Matthew Rimmer says the WikiLeaks publication is "a bombshell" that will "galvanise resistance and opposition to fast-tracking of this mega trade deal".
"The investment chapter serves to boost the corporate rights and powers of multinational companies at the expense of democratic governments and domestic courts," Dr Rimmer said.
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A secret draft chapter of the TPP free trade agreement, published by WikiLeaks on Thursday, shows that the Abbott government is prepared to accept a controversial Investor State Dispute Settlement (ISDS) process if "certain conditions" are met in a broad agreement that it hopes will enhance Australian access to US and Japanese agricultural markets.
Trade Minister Andrew Robb says the TPP negotiations are at "a make-or-break point" over the next month, with potentially huge trade benefits at stake as well as major strategic interests in relation to the United States "pivot to Asia".
WikiLeaks latest disclosure of the secret TPP negotiations will fuel political debate as both the Labor opposition and Australian Greens have expressed strong opposition to inclusion of ISDS provisions in the TPP, pointing out that the former Howard government rejected such a provision in the Australia's bilateral free trade agreement with the US.
Trade officials from the US and 11 other Pacific Rim nations Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam are engaged in intensive, closed-door negotiations to finish the TPP in the next few months.
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Secret Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) - Investment chapter
WikiLeaks releases today the "Investment Chapter" from the secret negotiations of the TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership) agreement. The document adds to the previous WikiLeaks publications of the chapters for Intellectual Property Rights (November 2013) and the Environment (January 2014).
The TPP Investment Chapter, published today, is dated 20 January 2015. The document is classified and supposed to be kept secret for four years after the entry into force of the TPP agreement or, if no agreement is reached, for four years from the close of the negotiations.
The TPP has developed in secret an unaccountable supranational court for multinationals to sue states. This system is a challenge to parliamentary and judicial sovereignty. Similar tribunals have already been shown to chill the adoption of sane environmental protection, public health and public transport policies.
Current TPP negotiation member states are the United States, Japan, Mexico, Canada, Australia, Malaysia, Chile, Singapore, Peru, Vietnam, New Zealand and Brunei. The TPP is the largest economic treaty in history, including countries that represent more than 40 per cent of the worlds GDP.
The Investment Chapter highlights the intent of the TPP negotiating parties, led by the United States, to increase the power of global corporations by creating a supra-national court, or tribunal, where foreign firms can "sue" states and obtain taxpayer compensation for "expected future profits". These investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) tribunals are designed to overrule the national court systems. ISDS tribunals introduce a mechanism by which multinational corporations can force governments to pay compensation if the tribunal states that a country's laws or policies affect the company's claimed future profits. In return, states hope that multinationals will invest more. Similar mechanisms have already been used. For example, US tobacco company Phillip Morris used one such tribunal to sue Australia (June 2011 ongoing) for mandating plain packaging of tobacco products on public health grounds; and by the oil giant Chevron against Ecuador in an attempt to evade a multi-billion-dollar compensation ruling for polluting the environment. The threat of future lawsuits chilled environmental and other legislation in Canada after it was sued by pesticide companies in 2008/9. ISDS tribunals are often held in secret, have no appeal mechanism, do not subordinate themselves to human rights laws or the public interest, and have few means by which other affected parties can make representations.
The TPP negotiations have been ongoing in secrecy for five years and are now in their final stages. In the United States the Obama administration plans to "fast-track" the treaty through Congress without the ability of elected officials to discuss or vote on individual measures. This has met growing opposition as a result of increased public scrutiny following WikiLeaks' earlier releases of documents from the negotiations.
The TPP is set to be the forerunner to an equally secret agreement between the US and EU, the TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership).
Negotiations for the TTIP were initiated by the Obama administration in January 2013. Combined, the TPP and TTIP will cover more than 60 per cent of global GDP. The third treaty of the same kind, also negotiated in secrecy is TISA, on trade in services, including the financial and health sectors. It covers 50 countries, including the US and all EU countries. WikiLeaks released the secret draft text of the TISA's financial annex in June 2014.
All these agreements on so-called free trade are negotiated outside the World Trade Organization's (WTO) framework. Conspicuously absent from the countries involved in these agreements are the BRICs countries of Brazil, Russia, India and China.
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Edward Snowden at FutureFest: Highlights
Highlights of our live video link interview with Edward Snowden at FutureFest 2015. Find out more about FutureFest and watch other videos from the event at http://www.nesta.org.uk/project/futurefest...
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American fugitive and whistleblowing intelligence contractor Edward Snowden has been described as many things including a traitor, a detractor, a dissident, andin my opiniona hero.
He now sits in exile in Moscow, enjoying his temporary asylum status. However, his time in Russias capital is quickly drawing to a close.
To remedy this, on March 5 Snowden made a video plea to Switzerland hoping the nation would grant him asylum. If Snowden were permitted to relocate to Switzerland, he would be able to escape extradition and impeding prosecution in the United States. In light of the convictions faced by whistleblower Chelsea Manning and the pending case against Julian Assange, Snowden deems his chances at a fair trial slim to none. His lingering skepticism is everything but misplaced.
Snowden made international headlines in 2013 as the National Security Agency (NSA) contractor who exposed thousands of documents detailing confidential surveillance programs that collected phone and Internet records of people in the U.S. and across the globe.
In June 2013 the U.S. Department of Justice charged Snowden with three felony counts including theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information and willful communication of classified communications intelligence information to an unauthorized person. The latter two are in direct violation of the Espionage Act, passed during World War I to prohibit interference with military operations during wartime efforts.
Apparently, the American public falls right in line with this archaic thinking, though it redeems itself to some degree. According to an April 1, 2014 joint HufffingtonPost and YouGov poll, while only 31 percent of Americans think what Snowden did was the right thing, 53 percent thought the public had the right to know about surveillance programs Snowden disclosed. These numbers illustrate a wee bit of contradiction, but then again housing two conflicting ideals on a singular topic is one of Americas foremost dilemmas.
Snowdens loyalty to the constitution and American freedom was thankfully strong enough to forego the countrys complacent indifference to gross violations of liberty and justice. He singlehandedly uncovered and massively disclosed possibly the greatest misstep of government power and authority of the 21st century. Critics theorize his seemingly insubordinate behavior is what led to his political troubles. I do not subscribe to that theory.
What he did is not what got him in a world of trouble. How he did it is. If there is one thing the powers that be loathe, it is being made a fool of on an international scale and that is exactly what Snowden arranged. Embarrassment and a tainted ego are the plutocracys unforgivable sins.
Snowden hopes, however, that those encroaching plutocratic powers do not have their hands in Switzerlands regime. Given the countrys human rights record and rich history of neutrality, accepting Snowdens plea for asylum would be symptomatic of Switzerlands condition. Here is a political martyr seeking refuge from oppressive regimes and powers that seek to brand him a threat in order to control and reprimand him for his unwavering commitment to liberty.
Unfortunately, there is a wrench in Snowdens desire for political asylum in the land of the Alps. Under current Swiss laws, in order to be considered for asylum, a potential asylum-seeker must submit a request on Swiss territory. The capital of Russia does not exactly fit that criterion last I checked.
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In the wake of the numerous spying scandals from the National Security Agency (NSA) to other departments of the federal government, two politicians are looking to overhaul the nations spying and security practices with a new sweeping piece of legislation.
Rep. Mark Pocan (D-Wisconsin) and Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) introduced the Surveillance State Repeal Act in a memorandum on Tuesday (Mar. 24). The law, which was first created in 2013 after the Edward Snowden leaks severely damaged the reputation of the NSA and the United States around the world, would repeal the controversial USA Patriot Act and the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, another NSA spying program that was utilized to collect information from everyday American citizens.
More specifically, the legislation would remove all of the Patriot Act, which was overwhelmingly passed in October 2001 following the September 11 terror attacks. It would also require the U.S. Attorney General to delete and destroy any information that was retained from the 2008 FISA Amendments Act if that person is not under investigation.
The law would also protect whistleblowers, like Snowden, from being criminally charged for exposing fraud and illegal activities occurring under the federal government. The authors of the proposed legislation showed their support for the bill in a written statement.
The warrantless collections of millions of personal communications from innocent Americans is a direct violation of our constitutional right to privacy, said Rep. Pocan. Revelations about the NSAs programs reveal the extraordinary extent to which the program has invaded Americans privacy. I reject the notion that we must sacrifice liberty for security we can live in a secure nation which also upholds a strong commitment to civil liberties. This legislation ends the NSAs dragnet surveillance practices, while putting provisions in place to protect the privacy of American citizens through real and lasting change.
The other author of the legislation also released a statement.
The Patriot Act contains many provisions that violate the Fourth Amendment and have led to a dramatic expansion of our domestic surveillance state, Rep. Massie wrote. Our Founding Fathers fought and died to stop the kind of warrantless spying and searches that the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act authorize. It is long past time to repeal the Patriot Act and reassert the constitutional rights of all Americans.
The proposed legislation will likely not be voted on before the renewal of the Patriot Act, which is set for June 1. While some of the Patriot Act has been repealed over time, legislation still remains intact specific to how the government is allowed to obtain information from Americans.
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A law bill introduced in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday seeks to abolish the Patriot Act, ban Uncle Sam from forcing backdoors into technology, and safeguard whistleblowers like Edward Snowden.
Ever since Snowden leaked top-secret files detailing the NSA and GCHQ's global surveillance of innocent people, there have been calls for reforms which have sparked little more than tinkering at the edges of the laws enabling the blanket snooping.
This bipartisan bill, introduced today by Reps. Mark Pocan (D-WI) and Thomas Massie (R-KY), takes a scorched-earth approach, and will simply dismantle the laws that make bulk data collection possible and institute new controls to protect privacy.
"The Patriot Act contains many provisions that violate the Fourth Amendment and have led to a dramatic expansion of our domestic surveillance state," said Congressman Massie.
"Our Founding Fathers fought and died to stop the kind of warrantless spying and searches that the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act authorize. It is long past time to repeal the Patriot Act and reassert the constitutional rights of all Americans."
The Surveillance State Repeal Act, H.R. 1466 [PDF], if somehow passed, will kill off the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (USA PATRIOT Act), which was passed in just three days in the panic following the September 11 attacks.
It would also get rid of the 2008 FISA Amendments Act, signed in the dying days of the last Bush presidency, which the NSA has used to justify large-scale data collection and surveillance programs. If passed, any future spying on American citizens requires a warrant and probable cause and information collected without that authorization would have to be destroyed.
"The warrantless collection of millions of personal communications from innocent Americans is a direct violation of our constitutional right to privacy," said Congressman Pocan.
"Revelations about the NSA's programs reveal the extraordinary extent to which the program has invaded Americans' privacy. I reject the notion that we must sacrifice liberty for security- we can live in a secure nation which also upholds a strong commitment to civil liberties."
In addition the bill would bar the government from mandating that technology firms install backdoors to their encryption systems and products, something law enforcement has been pressing for but which the industry and security experts believe would be a disaster.
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