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Revolt in wikileaks
Pune Talking - Bloggers Park - Pune Mirror
The rape charges against Julian Assange are the last straw for some organisers of WikiLeaks, who are demanding that the website’s controversial point man step aside.
The Australian-born founder and chief editor of WikiLeaks is facing an insurrection, with WikiLeaks supporters outraged that Assange has insisted on remaining in charge of the whistleblowing website despite the rape allegations he faces in Sweden.
A WikiLeaks organiser, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Assange had been resisting efforts over the last two weeks to push him off the public stage as a result of the criminal investigation in Sweden, and that his insistence on “staying in charge of everything” was creating “a mess for everyone” as the website prepares to release an additional library of 13,000 classified American military reports from the war in Afghanistan.
The website outraged the Pentagon in July when it released more than 70,000 other classified reports from the war.
The organiser added that internal protests directed against Assange resulted in a temporary shutdown of the WikiLeaks website several days ago, nominally for mechanical reasons. “It was really meant to be a sign to Julian that he needs to rethink his situation. Our technical people were sending a message,” said the organiser.
A prominent WikiLeaks organizer, Birgitta Jonsdottir, a parliamentarian in Iceland, told that she has encouraged Assange to step aside as WikiLeaks’ public spokesman and give up his other management responsibilities, at least until after the criminal investigation is over.
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