It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Police in Norway are looking into the disappearance of Arjien Kamphuis, a Dutch citizen with links to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Versions on Twitter have ranged from a hiking incident, to a secret assignment, to a CIA hit.
Kamphuis, a cyber security expert and co-author of a handbook for investigative journalists on how to keep themselves and their work safe from government spying, has been missing since August 20th, when he checked out of a hotel in the town of Bodø in northern Norway.
On August 22, Kamphuis was expected to leave Trondheim for Amsterdam. De Leest said he had already bought the plane ticket but nobody has heard from him since he left the hotel in Bodø. That means the man might have gone missing either in Bodø, in Trondheim, or somewhere in between during the train journey.
originally posted by: Skyfloating
In what "liberal democracy" is a journalist locked in an Embassy for years and not allowed to communicate or even talk online without criminal charge? Is freedom of speech a gigantic scam?
originally posted by: paraphi
There's quite a lot of untruths people propagate around Assange, and this is one of them. Assange is not locked up in the Ecuadorean Embassy - he's free to leave at any time.
On Arjien Kamphuis... He seems to be a minor player in the Wikileaks business. I wonder why the Russian propaganda arm RT.com is trying to make this out to be something it is not?
originally posted by: Skyfloating
So he voluntarily chooses to stay locked up and unable to communicate! He's actually free to just leave the Embassy and take a nice walk in sunlight and fresh air anytime he chooses! I had no idea.
originally posted by: watchandwait410
That is why you don't funk with the CIA.
originally posted by: paraphi
Assange is voluntarily in the Ecuadorean Embassy. That remains the case today, as it was when he first moved in.
originally posted by: Skyfloating
This is like being a high school bully who threatens to beat the kid up if he leaves the closet.
originally posted by: paraphi
Er, no it's not. Poor analogy. Assange chose to move to the Ecuadorean Embassy to avoid legal processes. He was successful in timing out the rape allegations in Sweden, but has not been able to get out of the arrest warrant in England. He needs to man-up and face the music like every other person. If the Yanks really want him, then they'll need to fight him through the courts.
originally posted by: watchandwait410
That is why you don't funk with the CIA.
originally posted by: burntheships
This is very concerning, as Kamphuis knows, and would be able
to prove exactly who delivered the DNC leak.
originally posted by: burntheships
This is very concerning, as Kamphuis knows, and would be able
to prove exactly who delivered the DNC leak.
Someone, or a group of someones is systematically at work
to this day attempting to eliminate the possibility that
the truth could be proven and the circumstances surrounding
Seth Rich's death are kept secret.
originally posted by: paraphi
I wonder why the Russian propaganda arm RT.com is trying to make this out to be something it is not?
originally posted by: Skyfloating
What makes you want to let readers believe that this piece of news is only being published by Russians?