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FBI Raids Business In Investigation Of Attacks Against Enemies Of WikiLeaks

Ryan J. Reilly | January 3, 2011, 10:55AM

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange

At the same time that the Justice Department is reportedly looking at options for prosecuting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, the FBI raided a Texas business as part of a criminal probe into a computer attack against the enemies of WikiLeaks, the Smoking Gun reported last week.

FBI agents seized a computer server that they believed was used to launch a massive electronic attack on PayPal, which cut off payments to WikiLeaks to the dismay of its supporters, according to an FBI affidavit.

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