'No links' between Assange and Manning, how WikiLeaks could help heat a Swedish church and the rest of today's WikiLeaks news and views
12.50pm: Welcome to the Wikiblog. Here are some developments:
• US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking Julian Assange to Bradley Manning, the US army private held in a military jail on suspicion of leaking the US embassy cables, according to an NBC report. What this means, if the report is correct, is that US authorities will struggle to prosecute or extradite Assange for the leak. Assange has always denied he had heard Manning's name before it appeared in the media.
• Another detail in the NBC report: military sources told it that the commander at Manning's military jail, James Averhart, overstepped his authority when he put the 23-year-old on suicide watch last week. Manning's lawyer had argued that stripping his client to his underwear, taking his glasses away and forcing him to stay in his cell was a form of punishment since the jail's forensic psychiatrist had said there was no need for it.
• WikiLeaks' Swedish severs, the ones kept in a former nuclear bunker drilled into rock in a Stockholm suburb, could help to keep a local church warm. Jon Karlung, CEO of the Bahnhof facility, said the excess heat produced by its servers - two of which belong to WikiLeaks - could be given free of charge to the church that sits above it, provided that the church could provide the equipment to deliver it.
• Assange has been nominated for "hero of the year" in the NME awards. It is ruse to get coverage but as you can see I've fallen for it. Assange's rivals to be "hero of the year" are all musicians: Gerard Way, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Matt Bellamy. Unlike in the Time person of the year, he has no Mark Zuckerberg to compete against. Nominees in the much more entertaining villain of the year category are Axl Rose, David Cameron, Justin Bieber, Nick Clegg, Simon Cowell.
• Here is a link to yesterday's Wikiblog.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2011
12.50pm: Welcome to the Wikiblog. Here are some developments:
• US investigators have been unable to find evidence directly linking Julian Assange to Bradley Manning, the US army private held in a military jail on suspicion of leaking the US embassy cables, according to an NBC report. What this means, if the report is correct, is that US authorities will struggle to prosecute or extradite Assange for the leak. Assange has always denied he had heard Manning's name before it appeared in the media.
• Another detail in the NBC report: military sources told it that the commander at Manning's military jail, James Averhart, overstepped his authority when he put the 23-year-old on suicide watch last week. Manning's lawyer had argued that stripping his client to his underwear, taking his glasses away and forcing him to stay in his cell was a form of punishment since the jail's forensic psychiatrist had said there was no need for it.
• WikiLeaks' Swedish severs, the ones kept in a former nuclear bunker drilled into rock in a Stockholm suburb, could help to keep a local church warm. Jon Karlung, CEO of the Bahnhof facility, said the excess heat produced by its servers - two of which belong to WikiLeaks - could be given free of charge to the church that sits above it, provided that the church could provide the equipment to deliver it.
• Assange has been nominated for "hero of the year" in the NME awards. It is ruse to get coverage but as you can see I've fallen for it. Assange's rivals to be "hero of the year" are all musicians: Gerard Way, Kanye West, Lady Gaga and Matt Bellamy. Unlike in the Time person of the year, he has no Mark Zuckerberg to compete against. Nominees in the much more entertaining villain of the year category are Axl Rose, David Cameron, Justin Bieber, Nick Clegg, Simon Cowell.
• Here is a link to yesterday's Wikiblog.
guardian.co.uk © Guardian News and Media 2011
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