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Has WikiLeakS.org seen off the recent threats by law firms ?

Have WikileakS.org successfully faced down the notorious legal firm of London based minor celebrity media spin lawyers Schillings, whose attempts to censor UK political blogs backfired so spectacularly over their rich client Alisher Usmanov''s criminal past ?

They were threatening WikiLeakS.org on behalf of the discredited Northern Rock plc, who managed to have the first run on a bank in the UK in over 140 years, and who, together with the inept handling of the crisis by the Labour government, are costing the UK taxpayer billions of pounds.

See the WikiLeakS.org category Northern Rock vs. Wikileaks

Judging from our log files, there is also some interest out there in the other legal threat against the WikilLeakS.org project, from the whistleblower persecuting Swiss bank of Julius Bär (or Julius Baer), who have hired Hollywood minor celebrity media spin lawyers Lavely & Singer .

Have they carried out their threat to sue WikiLeakS.org in the USA ?

See the WikiLeakS.org category Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks

Has WikiLeakS.org seen off these threatening legal letters, or is there actually a real risk of expensive legal court cases ?

It is interesting that the first threats to WikiLeaksS.org do not come initially from the sovereign Governments which might have been annoyed by the the various politically selected leaks chosen by the WikiLeakS activists.

On another note, the WikiLeakS.org PGP Encryption Key has still not been updated - it expired on the 2nd November 2007.


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