Wikileaks defector blasts Assange

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WikiLeaks defector blasts Assange in book - CNN.com
Very interesting article.
As a U.S. person who opposes Assange... It was certainly interesting reading this defector's position of Assange's choice to select attacks on U.S. - better than making his international celebrity spotlight by going after... Africa...

WikiLeaks blasted the defector in a statement shortly before the book launch.

Domscheit-Berg "damaged" WikiLeaks infrastructure and "stole material," WikiLeaks said Wednesday, and the website said it is taking legal action against him-- though Domscheit-Berg denied that.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Classic... really? damaged??? stole material???? The irony...

WikiLeaks editor Julian Assange went from being "imaginative, energetic (and) brilliant" to a "paranoid, power-hungry, megalomaniac,"...

The author says in his book, however, that Assange wasn't necessarily anti-American, even though all of WikiLeaks' major publications last year were aimed at the United States. Instead, Assange was motivated by a frustration with U.S. foreign policy and his desire to seek the biggest possible adversary.

"He had to single out the most powerful nation on earth," Domscheit-Berg writes. "Your own stature, it has been written, can be measured by that of your enemies. Why should he expend his fighting energy in Africa or Mongolia and get into quarrels with the Thai royal family?

"It would have been a far less attractive prospect to end up in some jail in Africa, or wearing concrete boots at the bottom of some Russian river, than to inform the world that he was being pursued by the CIA. And it wouldn't have gotten him on the nightly news."

Domscheit-Berg also says he took about 300,000 documents when he left WikiLeaks, claiming it would be "irresponsible" to leave them with Assange.

This last quote... Such a satisfied chuckle! Not only did he take 300k of docs - though claims Assange would be irresponsible with the docs! Classic!

 

[Ben Lamb]

Jullian Assange sounds like a Bond villian's name.

Bond: What, Assange, do you expect me to talk?

Assange: No, Mr Bond. I expect you to leak!