The U.S. Treasury should add Julian Assange and his Wikileaks...
The U.S. Treasury should add Julian Assange and his Wikileaks companies to the Specially Designated National and Blocked Persons List, wrote Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner Wednesday. Companies or persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction can’t conduct…
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business with entities on the list. Wikileaks and Assange pose a “clear and present threat” to U.S. national security interests after they published thousands of diplomatic cables, wrote King, who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security. “The U.S. government should be doing all it can to sink Wikileaks,” wrote King. “By adding Assange and Wikileaks to the SDN List, the United States can finally take action to dismantle his organization.”