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WikiLeaks Calls For Assange To Step Down

Posted by Soulskill on from the clean-out-your-desk dept.

Stoobalou writes "A member of Iceland's parliament and prominent organizer for whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks has turned on the site's spokesman, Julian Assange, urging him to step down over rape allegations made against him in Sweden. Birgitta Jonsdottir told news site The Daily Beast that she did not believe Assange's repeated assertion that the allegations of rape and molestation made against him were part of a US-backed smear campaign to distract attention from documents posted on the site laying bare US involvement in the war in Afghanistan and further promised revelations."

5 of 565 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Price by Fractal+Dice · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I would have thought that the groupthink and manipulation of public opinion leading to that little trillion dollar "weapons of mass destruction" boo-boo in Iraq would have taught Americans a lesson about the value of the presumption of innocence.

  2. Re:Price by couchslug · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Troll, eh?

    I defy whoever modded the post down to post a reasonable counter-argument instead.

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  3. Re:Way to out yourself, spook. by the+linux+geek · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Flamebait? Really?

  4. Re:Way to out yourself, spook. by NotBornYesterday · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Assange got mod points, it looks like ...

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  5. Re:Price by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    You're at (+2, Troll), that's pretty impressive.

    I think the record is +3 or +4 Troll, lets see how far you can go!

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