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December 2, 2010

Amazon Drops WikiLeaks Website
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Wiki Leaks’ website meanwhile was temporarily shut down on Wednesday
after the online giant Amazon dropped it from its servers. Independent
Senator Joe Lieberman, chairman of the Senate Homeland Security
Committee, said Amazon had acceded to his demand to stop hosting Wiki
Leaks. In a post to its Twitter account, Wiki Leaks said, "If Amazon are
so uncomfortable with the first amendment, they should get out of the
business of selling books." In Washington, U.S. State Department
spokesperson P.J. Crowley criticized Assange for calling on Secretary of
State Hillary Clinton to resign over her orders for U.S. diplomats to
spy on foreign officials.

P.J. Crowley: "Mr. Assange can say what he wants from wherever he is,
speaking from an undisclosed location through Skype, as I believe it.
There’s a metaphor there, in that he is calling for the secretary to
step down at a time where he is trying to evade an active warrant by
Interpol. The Secretary of State, by contrast, is in Kazakhstan engaged
directly with global leaders working to solve the world’s challenges.
And there’s a sharp contrast in the current activity of the two
individuals."



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