Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Right-Wing US Politicians Pressured Banks to Blockade WikiLeaks

Right-Wing US Politicians Pressured Banks to Blockade WikiLeaks
11-27-2012  •  antiwar.com  

 Hard-right U.S. politicians were directly behind the extrajudicial banking blockade against WikiLeaks, according to documents released by the anti-secrecy organization.  In the heavily redacted documents leaked from the European Commission, MasterCard Europe admits that Senator Joseph Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King both “had conversations” with MasterCard in the United States over cooperating on the blockade.
Lieberman, the chair of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, is revealed boasting of instigating Amazon’s cutting of service to WikiLeaks.
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