Icky Leaks: Julian Assange Is Wanted On Rape Charges
Wikileaks claims its mission is transparency and accountability.
I haven’t read all of the sensitive documents that were just released but I’d be willing to bet that Wikileaks frontman Julian Assange left out the part about the rape charges he’s facing in Sweden.
The Washington Post reported this in September…
STOCKHOLM – Until a few weeks ago, Julian Assange was riding high. The self-appointed paladin of uncomfortable truth had just whipped up a media storm in Washington, revealing 70,000 classified Pentagon documents that portrayed the U.S. war in Afghanistan in a way often at odds with the official cheerleading. Further riling the intelligence bureaucracy, his WikiLeaks organization was promising that 13,000 more such documents had been leaked and would be made available soon.
But since that triumph in July, which U.S. officials qualified as a dangerous transgression of secrecy rules, Assange, and by extension his crusade, has been damaged by allegations from two Swedish women that he subjected one to rape and the other to sexual harassment, according to assessments by Assange, his attorney and his associates.
Today, the Daily Telegraph confirms…
He said the US government was “trying to make it as hard for us as possible to publish responsibly in the hope that it can get us to not publish anything at all”.
The 39-year-old said he was constantly “being tracked” and changed his hair regularly to elude recognition.
He is being sheltered by high profile friends, and constantly moves, sleeping on couches and in attics.
Assange fears arrest and is wanted by Interpol to face rape allegations in Sweden.
I guess some “leaks” are more important than others.
