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WikiLeaks Video – "Collateral Murder, Baghdad July 12, 2007"

Iraq, Wikileaks

April 5, 2010

WikiLeaks Video – “Collateral Murder, Baghdad July 12, 2007”

By Michael Collins

Report from the W’ikiLeaks Press Conference

By Michael Collins

(April 5, Washington, DC) Julian Assange and Wikileaks kept their promise of February 20 by releasing a video tape that showscivilians and reporter deaths from an attack by United States forces. The tape was presented at a 9:00 ampress conference at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C.

Before the conference began, Assange described this as a “very rich story.” He opened with a brief statement and then showed the video tape. The edited and unedited versions of the tape are available here. WikiLeaks received the tape through unspecified channels. Assange did say that the leak to his organization “sends a message that there are some people in the US military who don’t like what’s going on.”

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Sydney Morning Herald Covers Larry Sinclair /Barack Obama Drug and Sex Story

Barack Obama, Larry Sinclair, National Press Club

Obama smear campaign moves to press club

Anne Davies in Washington

June 18, 2008

THE Washington media are about to be consumed by a new debate: how much attention they should give scandalous claims about Barack Obama when the man making them appears at the National Press Club today.

Larry Sinclair, from Minnesota, became famous – or infamous – when he posted a YouTube video last year alleging he and Senator Obama used cocaine together and participated in homosexual acts in 1999.

According to Mr Sinclair, the liaison occurred in the back of a limo while the presumptive Democratic nominee was in the Illinois Senate, but beyond that, Mr Sinclair has been vague about dates and locations.

There is no proof of the allegations and when Mr Sinclair offered to take a polygraph test last year, he failed it. It’s also instructive that none of Senator Obama’s opponents has embraced his claims.

But now Mr Sinclair has booked a conference room at the National Press Club, the premier venue for press conferences in Washington, and he plans to air the allegations again.

The mainstream media are unsure about how to treat his claims and the move to host him at the National Press Club has outraged liberal websites, which have moved well beyond reportage to activism. Firedoglake.com, edited by Jane Hamsher, has assembled an online petition signed by nearly 11,500 people and has delivered it to the club, urging it to check the facts of Mr Sinclair’s story before giving him the stage.

– Former vice-president Al Gore offered a vigorous endorsement of Senator Obama on Monday and urged Democrats to keep in mind the consequences of not taking the general election with grave seriousness.

The two strode onto the stage arm in arm to thundering applause from a crowd of nearly 20,000 people in Detroit. As Mr Gore ticked through a long list of challenges facing the nation, he hailed Obama as “clearly the candidate best able to solve these problems and bring change to America”.

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This story was found at: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/06/17/1213468422063.html

The Mainstream Press Finally Recognizes "The Larry Sinclair Problem"

Barack Obama, Election 2008, FCC, Howard Stern, Larry Sinclair, Lynn Samuels, National Press Club, Politics, Sirius Radio, Tim Russert, XM
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Larry Sinclair to Reveal Corroborating Information on His Illegal Drug Use With Obama

Center for Forfeiture Law
WASHINGTON, June 16 — Despite death threats and an organized campaign to prevent him from speaking publicly, Larry Sinclair – on June 18, 2008, at 2:00 PM (sign-up starting at 1 PM) in the Holeman Lounge of the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, DC 20045, will for the first time reveal the corroborating evidence for his claim that on November 6 + 7, 1999, Larry: (i) met Obama at a gay bar where Barack Obama arranged for the purchase of federal Schedule II drugs, (ii) which Larry and Obama thereafter ingested and (iii) then engaged in hi-risk, homosexual activities.Larry’s story burst on to the scene on January 18, 2008, when Larry released a short video containing these allegations on YouTube.com. That video has had close to a million views yet the mainstream media has completely ignored Larry’s serious allegations. Thereafter, a clearly orchestrated campaign to discredit Larry began on the internet which forced Larry to resort to federal court to protect his reputation.

At the press conference, Larry will (i) reveal the corroborating evidence for his allegations regarding Obama, (ii) address the time-line of the response of the Obama campaign to his allegations and the murder of Donald Young, the openly gay choir director of Trinity United Church of Christ, Obama’s now-former church and (iii) the significance of the refusal of U.S. District Court Judge Henry H. Kennedy, Jr. to allow Larry’s case to proceed.

SOURCE Center for Forfeiture Law

Montgomery Blair Sibley of the Center for Forfeiture Law, +1-202-508-3699, +1-202-478-0371 (FAX), SIBLEY@CIVILFORFEITURE.COM,