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Michael Moore Offers to Post $20K Bond for Assange

By Eric Lipman

As readers are no doubt aware by now, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a British court today, and was granted bail. Many celebrities and public figures reportedly offered to post bail on Assange's behalf when the request was first considered last week, including British heiress Jemima Khan. On this go-around, one of the people who offered to contribute to Assange's freedom was filmmaker Michael Moore. Moore released his statement to the court explaining the reasons he was willing to pony up $20,000 of his own cash on Asssange's behalf, and explained his decision further at the Huffington Post. The Huffington Post piece is, well, classic Moore. He ain't shy about his motivations: I ask you to imagine how much different our world would be if WikiLeaks had existed 10 years ago. Take a look at this photo. That's Mr. Bush about to be handed a "secret" document on August 6th, 2001. Its heading read: "Bin Ladin Determined To Strike in US." And on those pages it said the FBI had discovered "patterns of suspicious activity in this country consistent with preparations for hijackings." Mr. Bush decided to ignore it and went fishing for the next four weeks. But if...

Full post as published by Legal Blog Watch on December 14, 2010 (boomark / email).