MISSION JULIAN BRIEFING

Sector 12 this is President Obama, here to brief you on you next mission. The message I am about to relay to you is classified information never to be let out of Sector 12. This message is to be delivered in separate parts for security reasons. Special Agents, you’re mission is to capture Julian Assange, editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks is an international non-profit organization that publishes classified government information from anonymous sources for the public to see.

The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on October 4th 2006 and it published it’s first document very soon after in December 2006. The site claims that it was founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and start-up company technologists from the US, Taiwan, Europe, Australia and South Africa but the creators have yet to be formally identified. Julian Assange, the heart and soul of the organization, has been publicly representing WikiLeaks since January 2007.

Why must you capture Assange? There are four main reasons.

First: Leak Authenticity. The authenticity of the “wikileaked” document cannot be verified because the authors remain anonymous. Leaks fabricated by intelligence agencies designed to misinform is not an unimaginable concept, it’s actually quite plausible.

Second: The release of these confidential documents influences the people the action is supposed to help in the fist place. Wikileaks exposes people very much in danger of physical harm. An example of this can be seen when WikiLeaks published the name of an Algerian reporter who accused the Algerian President of manipulating a 2006 parliamentary election during talks with American diplomats. The Committee to Protect Journalists got the reporter's name redacted as it put the reporter’s life at risk.

Third: WikiLeaks inhibits the US from receiving information from foreign sources. First by compromising the identity of informants. In the past it has compromised the identities of informants in Afghanistan, putting them at risk of Taliban assassination. Even if they are not killed, they are not of use to the US so long it is known they are a spy. Second, it damages the chances of future source recruitment. The chance that Afghans and other possible sources will agree to pass on information to the US greatly diminishes because they don't believe that we can keep their identity a secret.

Fourth: WikiLeaks represent an appalling security breach. When Ellsberg and Russo leaked the Pentagon Papers they had to photocopy thousands of pages and smuggle them out of the Pentagon over time. Bradley Manning, an intelligence officer in his early twenties, allegedly downloaded hundreds of thousands of private documents to a single disk and then uploaded them to Wikileaks. He did this from a random military base in Iraq. An Assange trial will help us gloss over one of the worst security breaches in modern history.

Assange has not had a permanent address for several years. 

Find him.