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[ATTACH=RIGHT]16604[/ATTACH]The White House administration is asking allied Western governments to consider criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder, Australian-born [URL="http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/06/07/100607fa_fact_khatchadourian"]Julian Assange[/URL]. Assange is currently in hiding, due to the furor over WikiLeaks' release last month of the [URL="http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Afghan_War_Diary,_2004-2010"]Afghan War Diary[/URL], thousands of secret documents involving the war in Afghanistan from 2004 through …

[ATTACH=RIGHT]16424[/ATTACH]In its daily briefing for reporters today, Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell demanded that [URL="http://wikileaks.org"]WikiLeaks[/URL] return over 15,000 documents that the site has not yet published. He also denied reports that WikiLeaks had asked Department of Defense officials for assistance in going through the as yet unpublished documents. [I]"The Defense Department …

According to [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/21/hackers-us-fighter-jet-strike"]reports[/URL], the Pentagon has been subject to a successful hacking attack with details of the F35 Lightning II, also known as the Joint Strike Fighter and the most expensive jet fighter ever, the target. Apparently, design data including that of the $300 billion jet project electronics system, have …

According to the [URL="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/jul/27/internationalcrime.hacking?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull"]Observer newspaper this morning[/URL] Gary McKinnon, the British hacker accused of what US prosecutors refer to the biggest military computer hack of all time, has claimed he was threatened with a military tribunal at Guantanamo Bay. His lawyers are using this as part of their defence against …

According to a report in the [URL="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/9dba9ba2-5a3b-11dc-9bcd-0000779fd2ac.html"]Financial Times[/URL] of all publications, the Chinese military has hacked the Pentagon in what it describes as the most successful cyber attack on the US defense department to date. Although the Pentagon has acknowledged that a computer system which serves the office of US …