Wikileaks donations account blacklisted

Scrameustache writes: The whistleblowing group WikiLeaks claims that it has had its funding blocked and that it is the victim of financial warfare by the US government.

Moneybookers, a British-registered internet payment company that collects WikiLeaks donations, emailed the organisation to say it had closed down its account because it had been put on an official US watchlist and on an Australian government blacklist.

The apparent blacklisting came a few days after the Pentagon publicly expressed its anger at WikiLeaks and its founder, Australian citizen Julian Assange, for obtaining thousands of classified military documents about the war in Afghanistan.

And in other Wiki funding news

[Velcroman1]

Wikileaks has been collecting money and gaining public attention for the collateral damage video Manning supplied, but has failed to support the guy when he needed the money. They said they'd pay. They still have not. According to the attorney up in Bahstan representing him. P.S. Firsty!

nasty business

[scotty.m]

The government isn't going to release the documents and videos, so if nobody goes to WikiLeaks how else will the public discover government sponsered abuse? Maybe that 'don't ask, don't tell' maxim that works so well in the US Army has spilled over into the Civvy world.