Documents seen by the Guardian reveal for the first time the full details of the allegations of rape and sexual assault that have led to extradition hearings against the WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange.
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Assange, who was released on bail on Thursday, denies the Swedish allegations and has not formally been charged with any offence. The two Swedish women behind the charges have been accused by his supporters of making malicious complaints or being “honeytraps” in a wider conspiracy to discredit him.Assange’s UK lawyer, Mark Stephens, attributed the allegations to “dark forces”, saying: “The honeytrap has been sprung … After what we’ve seen so far you can reasonably conclude this is part of a greater plan.” The journalist John Pilger dismissed the case as a “political stunt” and in an interview with ABC news, Assange said Swedish prosecutors were withholding evidence which suggested he had been “set up.”
However, unredacted statements held by prosecutors in Stockholm, along with interviews with some of the central characters, shed fresh light on the hotly disputed sequence of events that has become the centre of a global storm.
Read the article to find out what the charges are.
Somebody, I personally don’t buy the entire Libertarian approach. However they are the only consistent bastards out there, so I respect that.
Answer: Julian Assange, Bill Clinton, and Eliot Spitzer’s bimbos.
Question: How do you kill someone’s political career in the USA? (Hint: It’s not by using something they did in the course of their duties to the public.)
All revealed by the WikiLeaks disclosures:
(1) the U.S. military formally adopted a policy of turning a blind eye to systematic, pervasive torture and other abuses by Iraqi forces;
(2) the State Department threatened Germany not to criminally investigate the CIA’s kidnapping of one of its citizens who turned out to be completely innocent;
(3) the State Department under Bush and Obama applied continuous pressure on the Spanish Government to suppress investigations of the CIA’s torture of its citizens and the 2003 killing of a Spanish photojournalist when the U.S. military fired on the Palestine Hotel in Baghdad (see The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch today about this: “The day Barack Obama Lied to me”);
(4) the British Government privately promised to shield Bush officials from embarrassment as part of its Iraq War “investigation”;
(5) there were at least 15,000 people killed in Iraq that were previously uncounted;
(6) “American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public, to American troops, and to the world” about the Iraq war as it was prosecuted, a conclusion the Post’s own former Baghdad Bureau Chief wrote was proven by the WikiLeaks documents;
(7) the U.S.’s own Ambassador concluded that the July, 2009 removal of the Honduran President was illegal — a coup — but the State Department did not want to conclude that and thus ignored it until it was too late to matter;
(8) U.S. and British officials colluded to allow the U.S. to keep cluster bombs on British soil even though Britain had signed the treaty banning such weapons, and,
(9) Hillary Clinton’s State Department ordered diplomats to collect passwords, emails, and biometric data on U.N. and other foreign officials, almost certainly in violation of the Vienna Treaty of 1961.
That’s just a sampling.
– Glenn Greenwald
Julian Assange is the Robin Hood of this century.
Julian had some unprotected sex with some Swedish groupies.. big deal..
Have you guys looked at his biography and his wiki pages? He was in some weird Aussie LSD cult as a kid… Not saying it was his fault, but it is noteworthy.
The cult was The Santiniketan Park Association, also known as The Family and The Great White Brotherhood, a controversial New Age group formed in Australia under the leadership of the Yoga teacher Anne Hamilton-Byrne.?? They bleached their hair white-blonde and it looks like the habit stuck with Julian for a while anyway it seems. He claims on TED TV that he and his mother fled from the cult and are still trying to avoid them…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santiniketan_Park_Association
His ‘hacking’ handle was ‘Mendax’ which basically means ‘liar’. Not sure what I think of that one yet.
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/mendax
I don’t want anything bad to happen to him if he is the ‘real deal’ or an ‘MK Ultra experiment’. He has done some good after all in my opinion.
However, I can see the governments of the world running with this like a hot potato and using this to clamp down on free speech and the Internet worldwide. Anon hackers supposedly attacking VISA, MasterCard, and Amazon doesn’t help the situation – not that the card companies and Amazon are little angels mind you..
What does everyone else here think about all this?
#45–Dexton==in the wordy way that is your want, you ask: “What does everyone else here think about all this?” /// Hydra.
Publius #43
“All revealed by the WikiLeaks disclosures:”
You wouldn’t have a link to one of these would you and not from a loon propaganda factory?
If true, how did the release of this information benefit us?
Assange reminds me of the “Red Rascal” in the Doonesbury comic strip.
If the government wanted to set this guy up, they surely could have done a better job. I read the whole article regarding the allegations and this is a bunch of women’s studies bullshit.
Two women put their heads together at a party and discover they have been having sex with the same guy. They then decide together that some of the sex they had with the guy weeks or days before was rape. Not rape as in “forced sex” but rape as in “what do you mean you’re not wearing a condom”?
BTW, the party these two dingbats met at was thrown in Assange’s honor by one of the “victims” about a week after the terrible crime.
It is so wonderfully ironic to see Assange crying foul when the police leak information about his sordid past.
http://goo.gl/NzRxm
Watch this hypocrite squirm. Even his supporters are backing away. It just gets better and better.
Say JB–I skimmed it real fast and didn’t catch Assange crying foul about any leak. He is crying foul about a lot of other things but not that.
Its fun in stories like this to do a plot line of how the story develops, and if you use “facts” to form your opinion, how that opinion should change?
Starts with women claiming rape, then its broken condoms, then its Assange wouldn’t take an HIV test all in a CIA trap wrapping.
Have the “equities” gone back and forth for you or have you just been against Assange for boot licking purposes?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101220/00285712334/bank-america—-thought-to-be-wikileaks-next-target—-suddenly-tries-to-block-payments-to-wikileaks.shtml
BofA is doing it…Soon your money will be GONE.
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101217/15123012328/will-journalists-who-outed-cias-pakistan-chief-be-treated-like-julian-assange.shtml
LETS shoot these folks also..
Bobbo,
Are you calling me a ancient nameless serpent-like chthonic water beast or the commenters? =]
Explain?
Now Dexton, there you go again. I called you nothing. I characterized what I thought of all “this” which is what you posted about Assange. You aren’t Julian Assange are you? If so, which Babe did you prefer?
If not, name the logical fallacy you just committed since you don’t like my characterizations? ((ha, ha. Really Dexton–I have to amuse myself or there would be no pleasure at all. Reference Somebody on that one.))
#46 bobbo
“in the wordy way that is your want”
Two things:
1. The prospect of bobbo actually accusing someone else of being wordy was just too much – the best laugh that I have had all day. Certain words come to mind, such as pots, kettles and, of course, Disraeli
2. You won’t want to be told that it is “your wont” and not “your want”. Who is it who always insists that words have meanings?
Fred–so as to prolixity, we both agree I have expertise in that area? I know it when I see it?
Actually, I meant to compliment Dexton on the additional info he provides. Just trying to make the package a little tighter.
If you can’t find 3 typo’s in every post I make, you ain’t looking hard enough. Too often, I even have a hard time understanding what my point was meant to be. Bothers me when totally different words are typed, but what ya gonna do?==Let it sit overnight and proof it?
I welcome all negative comments.
#43
(1) Well duh.
(2) Been there, done that.
(3) No really, wow I never knew that.
(4) No really?
(5) 15,000? Try 120,000.
(6) “American leaders lied, knowingly, to the American public…” – seriously just stop right there.
(7) It’s Honduras, who’ll notice. It’s one of those tiny banana places.
(8) The Brits promised. Really, they promised after Fallujah.
(9) Hillary hates the UN? Wow, I thought only Ned Flanders, er, John Bolton, hated the UN.
Seriously, Dude. Americans don’t care about this shit as long as Coke packs stay the same price at Walmart.
wHAT IS AMAZING IS in the past the few nations that SCREAMED about the USA, being a power monger, and This THAT and soforth, is TRUE..
The USA uses FOOD, as a weapon.
THE USA uses MONEY as a weapon.
THE USA instigates Gov take overs..
If another nation is Self sufficient, WE WILL MAKE IT NO SO.(look up the American islands, pacific, after WWII)
THE USA kills incumbents of other nations that do not favor the USA and INSTALLS their OWN puppet ruler.(yep, we did it a few times.)
#55 bobbo
“but what ya gonna do?==Let it sit overnight and proof it?”
Yes indeed – that might not be too bad an idea, in the interests of intelligent discourse in the Internet. This assumes, of course, that the two concepts “Internet” and “intelligent discourse” are not somehow mutually exclusive.
Caught Joe “I never lie” Biden on the tube last night: “Assange is a Terrorist.”
Yea–America/world is lied into an invasion of Iraq killing 100K’s and bankrupting the USA, but telling the truth that has not killed anyone is Terrorism.
Welcome to Opposite Bizarro World of Dumbnut Politics in the GOUSA circa Now.
Michael Moore on Racheal Maddow last night: we are in SIX military conflicts right now: Iraq, Afghan, Paki, Yemen, Columbia, and some other place.
Six.
WikiLeaks is one of the few NEWS REPORTING SOURCES that reports on what is bleeding the USA dry.