Did you know that the US government shutdown access to Wikileaks for citizens in late February 2008 for two weeks by court order?
They did so in order to cover up the publication of highly damaging documents that showed a massive amount of money laundering, grand larceny, and tax evasion involving multiple countries that focused on the Julius Bare Bank in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland.
It was only after huge global outcry, a joint countersuit, and the ultimate failure of the US government's injunctions to effectively shutdown the site, that Julius Bare Bank decided to drop the court case against Wikileaks, and the US government was forced to reinstate access.
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This same week, a mysterious fire broke out at PRQ, the Swedish company that had been hosting most of Wikileaks infrastructure, and badly damaged the DNS and Server racks they had used at the time.
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