For years, the wikileaks.org website has enabled anonymous whistleblowers to report on corruption and government mismanagement. Now the website has been taken offline until it can find funds to defend itself against corporate lawsuits.
"Wikileaks is overloaded," the site’s homepage read yesterday. "We need your support for more servers." It went on to say that Wikileaks had received "hundreds of thousands" of pages from corrupt banking institutions and other information pertaining to the Iraq war, the United Nations and other issues that it does not currently have the operational resources to publish.
"You can change that and by doing so, change the world," it read.
Founded in 2006, Investigative journalists and government watchdogs have come to see wikileaks.org as an invaluable resource for exposing corruption. It gained national attention when it posted controversial documents related to Guantanamo Bay, the Church of Scientology, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
Wikileaks.org has fought several hunded lawsuits filed against it by corporations and governmental agencies. They were accepting donations via credit card yesterday, but now the site appears entirely inaccessible.
Multiple attempts to contact Wikileaks by email and phone were not successful.
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Wikileaks is back online as of 1. July 2010 at 02:00 hourse, I could open the site at www.wikileaks.org
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