ACLU and Others File to Join Wikileaks.org Case

February 29th, 2008

Swiss bank Julius Baer may soon wish it hadn’t meddled with Wikileaks.org. The bank’s steps to get a judge to remove sensitive content about its offshore activities from the whistle-blower Web site has turned into a public-relations nightmare as civil-liberties groups join to defend Wikileaks.Wikileaks.org allowed anonymous posting of documents, including those disclosing U.S. Army operations at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba; human-rights abuses in China; and political corruption in Kenya. But when documents from the Swiss bank showed up, that marked the beginning of a new look at First Amendment law.

The bank filed a legal complaint and after an initial review, U.S. District Judge Jeffrey White ordered Dynadot, a California Web-hosting company, to “immediately clear and remove” records from Wikileaks and “prevent the domain name from resolving to the Wikileaks.org Web site or any other Web site or server other than a blank page” until he could undertake a closer review.

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