Sporkman
February 1st, 2010, 05:46 PM
Short on cash, Wikileaks suspends operations
by Stephen Shankland
Wikileaks, which has published anonymously contributed information that is both confidential and controversial, has one thing in common with many more-traditional media outlets: financial troubles.
The site has posted confidential 9/11 pager messages, tangled with banks and the Church of Scientology, revealed inner workings of the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and shared snippets of e-mail from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Now, though, Wikileaks has shut the site down at least temporarily.
"To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have reluctantly suspended all other operations, but will be back soon," a note on the Wikileaks site said Monday...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000030-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
by Stephen Shankland
Wikileaks, which has published anonymously contributed information that is both confidential and controversial, has one thing in common with many more-traditional media outlets: financial troubles.
The site has posted confidential 9/11 pager messages, tangled with banks and the Church of Scientology, revealed inner workings of the U.S. military base in Guantanamo, Cuba, and shared snippets of e-mail from vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Now, though, Wikileaks has shut the site down at least temporarily.
"To concentrate on raising the funds necessary to keep us alive into 2010, we have reluctantly suspended all other operations, but will be back soon," a note on the Wikileaks site said Monday...
http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20000030-264.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20