[LINK] the all-out scramble to stop Wikileaks and jail Assange started the day after it was announced that the next document dump would be from Citibank

[Craig Sanders]

On Sun, Dec 05, 2010 at 10:19:40PM +1100, Kim Holburn wrote:

> Interesting comment from slashdot:
> http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1896338&cid=34447678

> > How fitting that Interpol should issue arrest warrants for Julian
> > Assange and former Vice President Dick Cheney within 24 hours of
> > each other.

this sentence caught my eye because I hadn't heard *anything* about a
warrant for Cheney, while the warrant for Assange is being trumpeted so
loudly that it's impossible to avoid knowing about.

while a google search indicates that this isn't quite true (yet -
Nigerian authorities have said they are *going to* charge Cheney with
bribery and issue it through interpol), it's amazing that the interpol
warrant for Assange is front-page news on mainstream papers all around
the world, but there's barely a peep about the pending Cheney warrant
in the mainstream press. according to a google search for "interpol
+cheney", almost the only sites even mentioning it are online news
sites and blogs. the only "mainstream" sites even mentioning it are AOL
News[1] & Bloomberg Business Week[2].

even the fact that an arrest warrant is about to be issued for the
former Vice President of the US *should* be front page news everywhere.


[1] http://www.aolnews.com/surge-desk/article/nigeria-to-interpol-arrest-dick-cheney/19742388
[2] http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-12-01/nigeria-to-charge-dick-cheney-in-pipeline-bribery-case.html

craig

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