Outside the Beltway

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Castro banned “Sicko” for fear that ordinary Cubans would be up in arms seeing facilities that are not available to the vast majority of them.

Inspired by the reaction to the Julian Assange case, a feminist writer proposes dangerous changes to American rape laws.

Joe Ratzinger, the future pope, lobbied hard against Turkey’s membership in the EU.

There’s been much talk recently about treason charges in the Wikileaks case, an most of it has been entirely wrong.

Has WikiLeaks changed journalism forever?

WikiLeaks’ reveals that DynCorp, a government contractor, provided drugs and child sex slaves to Afghan police–and the State Department helped cover it up.

Is Obama really the most liberal President ever? Not really.

Julian Assange is a loathsome human being. Is he also a rapist? Under Swedish law, maybe.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Tuesday in London on a Swedish warrant.

The Bags Fly Free Edition OTB Caption Contest^TM is now over.

The latest Wikileaks leak is a list of foreign infrastructure sites deemed vital to U. S. security.

SNL’s Julian Assange spoof isn’t their best work but it’s mildly amusing

Are American diplomats lying to reporters because they figure our citizens can’t handle the truth?

The Obama administration is banning hundreds of thousands of federal employees from calling up the WikiLeaks site on government computers because the leaked material is still formally regarded as classified.

WikiLeaks domain name service was terminated for violating terms of use.

Michael Yon provides a digital copy of PFC Bradley Manning’s Charge Sheet, dated 29 May. It makes for interesting reading.

The Pentagon could have taken down WikiLeaks but decided not to. Out of kindness, I suppose.

Tonight’s topics: The fallout from the latest WikiLeaks dump and the Pentagon’s report on gays in the military.

WikiLeaks has been dumped from Amazon’s servers.

The latest wrong of documents from Wikileaks show that American diplomats are as worried about Pakistan as the rest of us, and not quite sure how to deal with the situation.

The Feds famously got notorious mobster Al Capone on tax evasion charges. Will WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange be done in by sex crimes?

The latest Wikileaks revelations suggest that China may not be willing to protect North Korea for much longer.

Sarah Palin has taken to her Facebook page to raise “Serious Questions about the Obama Administration’s Incompetence in the WikiLeaks Fiasco.” They’re more interesting than I’d expected.

The choice is between a world in which officials can share information and carry out reasoned debates with one another and a world in which nothing can be written down.

The two English language newspapers who have been Julian Assange’s accomplices in disseminating stolen secrets defend themselves.

The major outlets that received document drops from Wikileaks are covering the story in different and interesting ways.

The diplomatic ramifications of the latest Wikileaks leaks are just starting to emerge and may place some countries in very embarrassing positions.

A new round of Wikileaks documents is out, and it opens the door on diplomatic correspondence previously hidden from the public.

Jonah Goldberg has written a bad column. In this case, an op-ed in the Chicago Tribune headlined “Why is Assange still alive?”

The Pentagon is looking at a system that would flag suspicious access to data, similar to the alerts by credit cards companies designed to prevent fraudulent charges.

In what is being described as the largest leak of secret documents in U.S. history, Wikileaks has made public more than 400,000 documents related to the seven year long Iraq War.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates acknowledged in a newly released letter that the Wikileaks Afghan War document dump wasn’t as damaging as the Pentagon initially claimed. So what was the uproar all about?

The Pentagon, responding to obvious flaws in its security revealed by the WikiLeaks debacle, is working on a data mining program that will monitor employee behavior for suspicious activity.

Critics of WikiLeaks have no affirmative proof that the release of tens of thousands of classified documents has gotten anyone killed. The truth is that we’ll likely never know.

OTB’s James Joyner and Salon’s Glenn Greenwald discuss WikiLeaks and its implications for journalism on Al Jazeera’s “Inside Story.”