Assange Asks Obama To Resign If He Approved The Spying Of UN Officials
Without the resignation of the leader at the White House, the United States could no longer pass as a credible nation. At least this is what Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks, claims, while being himself accused of irresponsability after having disclosed a list of potential targets for terrorists. The nowadays number one public enemy in the US, Assange demands President Barack Obama to resign, accusing him of ordering the spying of several United Nations officials. Otherwise, America would no longer be a credible nations, says the Australian hacker.
Julian Assange is sought by Interpol for an alleged rape he had committed in Sweden and expects to be charged for espionage in the United States. But he responded to the US attacks against Wikileaks – the suppresion of the Internet address ending in ”.org”, a domain hosted by a California company, or the blocking of the Pay Pal donations- in an interview for the Spanish newspaper „El Pais”.
The Australian claims that, according to some of the 250,000 diplomatic cables analyzed, the US diplomats were ordered to follow even the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. And, as The Guardian says, the diplomats were asked to learn everything about this target. From his fingerprints and his DNA to his means of communication and information about their security measures, his expenses, credit cards, passwords and codes- everything was of interest for the American diplomats. And Assange demanded for the whole chain of command who knew and approved to this to resign for United States to be considered a credible nation once again.
And the Australian believes that the order was so important that it must have been submitted for a presidential approval. So Barack Obama is summoned to say everyhting he knows about this illegal order. And if he refuses to answer or there is evidence that he approved this action, Assange says that the president must resign.
Beyond the cables full of tasty statements of some US diplomats and their interlocutors, Wikileaks has also published a controversial list of sensitive locations around the world, locations classified by the Department of State as possible targets for terrorist attacks. Last February the Department of State asked its diplomats to provide lists of such possible targets in the countries where they were on duty. And Washington considered that the locations, if lost, would significantly affect the public health, the economy and/or the US national security. And these secret lists had been published by Wikileaks Sunday night.
Among the objectives listed are the arrival points of submarine telecommunications cables in the Atlantic Ocean (Great Britain and France), the plants producing vaccines (in Denmark, France and Switzerland), mines (such as a bauxite mine in Guinea), ports and so on. And their unauthorized publication was condemned by a spokesman of the English Government, who said on Monday that such leaks are detrimental to national security in the United States, Uninted Kingdon and elsewhere. But he was contradicted by Kristinn Hrafsson, a spokesman for Wikileaks, who said that the disclosure cannot be considered dangerous. She explained that the cables only shows the strategic importance of some of the objectives , but they give no details about their exact location, security measures or their vulnerability.
