Wikileaks’ Julian Assange has vowed to defend the organisation against attack after his intervention in the US presidential election, writes Dan Buckley

THOUGH it’s more than 42 years since Richard Nixon was forced to resign as American president — August 9, 1974 — that denouement remains the high-water mark of investigative journalism. Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, through The Washington Post and with the help of a mole — identified 30 years later as FBI executive William Mark Felt — defeated the most powerful office in the world.

Ecuador and Sweden have signed a pact that would allow WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to be questioned at Ecuador’s embassy in London where he has been for more than three years, the Quito government said.

Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has put hundreds of thousands of emails and documents from last year’s crippling cyber-attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment into a search-able online archive.

A Swedish court today upheld its detention order on Julian Assange, reaffirming the legal basis for an international warrant for the WikiLeaks founder which has kept him hiding in the Ecuadorean embassy in London for two years.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has suggested he is unapologetic about his role in helping to disclose government secrets.

The Fifth Estate (15A) is a dramatisation of the Wikileaks story, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Julian Assange, the man who employed the Internet to mastermind the greatest information dump in history.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has asked Swedish police to investigate what happened to a suitcase he suspects was stolen from him by intelligence agents as he travelled from Sweden to Germany in 2010.

A block on processing donations by credit card companies to Wikileaks has cost the whistle-blowing website over £30m (€37m), its founder says.

WIKILEAKS disclosed its entire archive of US State Department cables yesterday, much if not all of it uncensored.

UNCENSORED copies of WikiLeaks’ massive tome of US State Department cables were circulating freely across the internet, a dramatic development which leaves a new batch of US sources vulnerable to embarrassment and potential retribution.

SECRET documents about detainees at Guantanamo Bay reveal new information about some of the men the US believes to be terrorists, according to reports.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has been given a date for his appeal against extradition to Sweden, where he faces allegations of sexual assault.

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is described in a new book as an “emperor” who has become just the kind of public figure he is trying to expose.

WikiLeaks’ true legacy might not be more transparency but the destruction of internet freedoms, says Dan Buckley

THE founder of WikiLeaks yesterday said he fears that the United States is getting ready to indict him on espionage charges, but insisted that the secret-spilling site would continue its work despite what he has called a dirty tricks campaign.

A BRITISH court will decide today whether to free WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has become the scourge of the US establishment, on £200,000 (€234,500) bail over accusations of sex crimes in Sweden.

Shopping website Amazon went offline for a brief period with a group of “hacktivists” suggesting they may be responsible.

WIKILEAKS supporters are downloading increasing amounts of the spam -shooting software used to attack companies seen as hostile — a development that could challenge even internet giants such as PayPal and Amazon.com during the crucial Christmas shopping season.

Skirmishes raged across cyberspace between WikiLeaks supporters and the companies they accuse of trying to stifle the group, with websites on both sides of the battle line taken out of service or choked off by attacks.

MORE cyber attacks in retaliation for attempts to block the WikiLeaks website are likely in a “data war” to protect internet freedom, a representative of one of the groups involved warned last night.

WikiLeaks’ payment processor is preparing to sue credit card companies Visa and MasterCard over their refusal to process donations to the whistle-blowing website.

Australia would give consular help to WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange if he is arrested abroad, the government said today.

Pressure mounted today on WikiLeaks after the online payment agency PayPal cut off the account it uses to gather donations from supporters.

WIKILEAKS has been forced to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service.

WikiLeaks’ domain name system provider says it has withdrawn service to the wikileaks.org name after apparent attacks on its website.

Australia’s prime minister slammed WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents as “illegal” today, in the country’s strongest condemnation yet of the website’s ongoing release of sensitive data.

THE US ordered a sweeping review of access to sensitive government information in the wake of the massive and potentially embarrassing WikiLeaks release of more than 250,000 classified documents.

The Iraqi Foreign Minister has criticised the release of confidential US diplomatic cables as "very, very unhelpful".

The Obama administration has alerted Congress and foreign governments of the expected release of more sensitive documents on the WikiLeaks website.

A blunder by British forces in Iraq allowed al Qaida’s top commander in the country to escape, according to secret war logs controversially leaked into the public domain.

WIKILEAKS founder Julian Assange said he believed the Pentagon could be behind a rape allegation against him that was swiftly dropped by Swedish authorities.

Swedish prosecutors today defended their handling of a rape allegation against the founder of WikiLeaks.

Swedish prosecutors have withdrawn an arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, saying the rape suspicions against him are unfounded.

WHISTLE BLOWER website WikiLeaks has posted a mysterious encrypted “insurance file,” prompting speculation about what it contains.

THE whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks may have blood on its hands, the Pentagon has said, warning its unprecedented leak of secret US military files could cost lives and damage trust of allies.

THE release of some 91,000 secret US military documents on the Afghanistan war is just the beginning, WikiLeaks’ founder Julian Assange promised yesterday, adding that he still has thousands more Afghan files to post online.