Awww. Assange pissed that his private info was leaked.

[DarrinS]

http://www.news.com.au/features/wikileaks/wikileaks-boss-julian-assange-turns-on-friends-and-foes/story-fn79cf6x-1225974366476


I really hate this fucker.


WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange turns on everyone





Assange attacks former friends and US
Says rape accusers motivated by revenge
Claims to have material to destroy bank boss
Police feared he would be assassinated


JULIAN Assange, the man behind WikiLeaks, today launched a wide ranging series of attacks on both his enemies and allies as he defended his public and private conduct.

In his first UK newspaper interview since releasing hundreds of secret diplomatic cables last month, Mr Assange told The Times he predicts the US will face reprisals if it attempts to extradite him on conspiracy charges.

He accused his media partners at The Guardian newspaper, which worked with him to make the embarrassing leaks public, of unfairly tarnishing him by revealing damaging details of the sex assault allegations he faces in Sweden. :cry


He insisted that the women behind the claims were motivated by revenge.

Mr Assange said he had enough material ready to destroy the bosses of one of the world’s biggest banks.

Speaking from the English mansion where he is confined on bail, the 39-year-old Australian said that the decision to publish incriminating police files about him was "disgusting". :cry The Guardian had previously used him as its source for hundreds of leaked US embassy cables.

Mr Assange is understood to be particularly angry with a senior reporter at the paper and former friend for "selectively publishing" incriminating sections of the police report, although The Guardian made clear that the WikiLeaks founder was given several days to respond.

Mr Assange claimed the newspaper received leaked documents from Swedish authorities or "other intelligence agencies" intent on jeopardising his defence.

"The leak was clearly designed to undermine my bail application," he said. "Someone in authority clearly intended to keep Julian in prison."

He denied allegations of sexual assault and said that the allegations by two Swedish women he met in August "came from nowhere".

Mr Assange was arrested and held in Wandsworth prison after Swedish authorities issued an extradition request. He was released on bail last week on a surety of £275,000 ($US427,872).

He said that he still had not seen the full extent of the allegations against him, although he accepted that his Swedish lawyer had been handed many of the details.

When asked if he was promiscuous, he replied: "I’m not promiscuous. I just really like women."

Mr Assange also confirmed that WikiLeaks was holding a vast amount of material about a bank which it intends to release early next year.

Shares in Bank of America recently fell after speculation spread that it was the target.

"We don’t want the bank to suffer unless it’s called for," Mr Assange said. "But if its management is operating in a responsive way there will be resignations."

US officials are reportedly searching for ways to extradite him on espionage charges. Vice President Joe Biden recently called the WikiLeaks founder a "high-tech terrorist".

Mr Assange said that he believed that the US situation would "turn around absolutely" as a groundswell of favourable opinion grew in America.

"The people in power are organised and were able to respond quickly," he said. "But numerically they are not that strong and our support in the general population is tremendous."

Mr Assange's interview follows revelations that police feared he would be assassinated on the front steps of London's High Court.

He revealed earlier he was told to keep a statement celebrating his freedom brief due a perceived threat on his life.

The police concerns emerged as Mr Assange revealed further details about his prison stay - including that he was housed alongside paedophiles and found support among prison guards.

[fyatuk]

LOL.

A man responsible for leaking documents and making threatening statements based on other documents he claims to hold complains about his information being leaked.

That's just sweet.

Dude sounds like he's got a "rule the world" complex or something.

[Crookshanks]

I found this article pretty funny. Assange is so upset that HIS private information was leaked - the very epitome of irony!

[lefty]

LOL at you guys

Assange making all the great nations nervous

I think the World Leaders are more pissed than Assange is

[BlairForceDejuan]

where the hell are the ninja assassins???

I'm beginning to think Hollywood has been lying to me for the past two decades :(

[Drachen]

I Love this. Regardless of if I agree or disagree with what he is doing. I think this is freakin rich. Look man, what is good for the goose is good for the gander. Maybe that is why all of his buddies decided to go open their own site (openleaks), because he is a douche. F-Him. LOL

[lefty]

http://images2.memegenerator.net/ImageMacro/4121163/U-MAD-AMERICA.jpg?imageSize=Large&generatorName=Julian-Assange

[nkdlunch]

assange trolling the nations he is supposed to troll.

and, mmmm 2 swedish women

[LnGrrrR]

In some sense, this is a case of "what's good for the goose". However, it mentions that this was a former friend of his, so that might be what's he pissed at, the sense of betrayal. If the latter, not quite the same situation. (It's not like Assange and the US government were good friends or anything. :lol)

[Crookshanks]

In some sense, this is a case of "what's good for the goose". However, it mentions that this was a former friend of his, so that might be what's he pissed at, the sense of betrayal. If the latter, not quite the same situation. (It's not like Assange and the US government were good friends or anything. :lol)

That's true, but I think people are finding out that Assange is really an a$$hole and that his motives for leaking all the classified information are purely evil and selfish. Karma - what goes around, comes around!

[Drachen]

In some sense, this is a case of "what's good for the goose". However, it mentions that this was a former friend of his, so that might be what's he pissed at, the sense of betrayal. If the latter, not quite the same situation. (It's not like Assange and the US government were good friends or anything. :lol)

Go back and read around the bolded areas. He is mad that the news paper that he used to publish secret stuff that the US government finds embarrassing, published secret stuff that he finds embarrassing. He finds the decision to print this material "disgusting".

[DisAsTerBot]

fallguy...

no one seems to care where the leak came from. You know the actual u.s. government employee handing out the info. NO, get the cyber-TERRORIST!

[LnGrrrR]

Go back and read around the bolded areas. He is mad that the news paper that he used to publish secret stuff that the US government finds embarrassing, published secret stuff that he finds embarrassing. He finds the decision to print this material "disgusting".

Right, but read the non-bolded part underneath that.


Mr Assange is understood to be particularly angry with a senior reporter at the paper and former friend for "selectively publishing" incriminating sections of the police report, although The Guardian made clear that the WikiLeaks founder was given several days to respond.


As I said before, if he's just pissed because his info was leaked, well too bad. If he's pissed because it was a "trusted" friend, slightly different story.

[Drachen]

Right, but read the non-bolded part underneath that.



As I said before, if he's just pissed because his info was leaked, well too bad. If he's pissed because it was a "trusted" friend, slightly different story.

It is probably a little from column A and a little from column B. Too bad his ego and alleged actions are getting in the way of his desire to change the world.

[Marklar MM]

fallguy...

no one seems to care where the leak came from. You know the actual u.s. government employee handing out the info. NO, get the cyber-TERRORIST!

Pretty sure he has already been dealt with.

[Stringer_Bell]

Pretty sure he has already been dealt with.

http://lh3.ggpht.com/antdogg420/SNvlF5Vk2ZI/AAAAAAAAAZs/gB0MqqaVCWw/s400/internet_serious_business.jpg

:hat

Also, I don't blame ASSange for being upset. He hooked some media dudes up with the info they wanted, now they publish ALLEGATIONS against him. All he did was fuck two bitches without a condom, big deal. I'd like to see how many of you haven't fucked a girl that got upset when you didn't stick around to buy her a Christmas present. Then she tells all your friends that she's pregnant, when she really isn't, so it makes you look like an asshole just leaving her out in the cold, but really she's a manipulative bitch that just wanted your cyber fame and paypal money.

I said fucking leave me alone bitch!!! :pctoss

[DarrinS]

When asked if he was promiscuous, he replied: "I’m not promiscuous. I just really like women."





I don't know about you, but I look at this guy and I don't see a dude who's good with women -- or even likes women, for that matter.


http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/12/21/1225974/385500-julian-assange.jpg

[monosylab1k]

I don't know about you, but I look at this guy and I don't see a dude who's good with women -- or even likes women, for that matter.


http://resources0.news.com.au/images/2010/12/21/1225974/385500-julian-assange.jpg

lol 45-3

[DarrinS]

lol 45-3

http://www.spurstalk.com/forums/image.php?u=5048&dateline=1292249951

[EVAY]

Assange is a total a/hole. The PFC who leaked the info to Assange, however, is a treasonous jerk who should be tried as a traitor but who is, as far as I know now, not even being considered for anything worse than "handling classified material in a dangerous way". I know that is not the real terminology, but it is less than a charge of treason, and I don't know why in the world the jerk shouldn't be tried for treason.

[Spurminator]

Assange is a total a/hole. The PFC who leaked the info to Assange, however, is a treasonous jerk who should be tried as a traitor but who is, as far as I know now, not even being considered for anything worse than "handling classified material in a dangerous way". I know that is not the real terminology, but it is less than a charge of treason, and I don't know why in the world the jerk shouldn't be tried for treason.

Which leaks, specifically, are you most upset about?

Anyway, Bradley Manning is getting his, don't worry. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning

[EVAY]

Which leaks, specifically, are you most upset about?

Anyway, Bradley Manning is getting his, don't worry. http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/14/manning

The State Department information regarding our positions in Afghanistan and Pakistan. I don't care about the leaks showing embarrassing comments about diplomats. That is unimportant. But it IS important that our positions regarding how we handle one of the hottest spots on the planet not be compromised, and that our intelligence from Afghan and Pakistani informants be protected. All of that has been compromised, to the detriment of our troops and our nation's ability to pursue its foreign policy.

Finally, the post-9/11 findings from the commission found that our intelligence and foreign service agencies needed to share more info., and that if they had done so, 9/11 might have been averted. However, this kind of 'outing' of data will be used by the state and fbi and cia and others are to say "We're not willing to share with the Pentagon because what happened when their PFC let the info. out." Then we are all worse off for it.

[DarrinS]

Assange is a total a/hole. The PFC who leaked the info to Assange, however, is a treasonous jerk who should be tried as a traitor but who is, as far as I know now, not even being considered for anything worse than "handling classified material in a dangerous way". I know that is not the real terminology, but it is less than a charge of treason, and I don't know why in the world the jerk shouldn't be tried for treason.


Berkely city council had a resolution to declare him a hero.


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8202815/Wikileaks-Berkeley-Council-considers-naming-Bradley-Manning-a-hero.htmlhttp://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8202815/Wikileaks-Berkeley-Council-considers-naming-Bradley-Manning-a-hero.html

[Wild Cobra]

Doesn't anyone feel sorry for the loser?

[TheSullyMonster]

The PFC is being charged with the crimes he committed, not a big deal. Hell, most of the stuff wasn't even a high classification level.


Doesn't anyone feel sorry for the loser?

Well, if police records are confidential in Sweden, sure I feel bad for him. Just like I would anybody.

But the allegations themselves? He allegedly broke the laws of the country he was in. They aren't even terrible laws or immoral ones. It's stuff illegal in large parts of the US as well in my understanding. Nope, no pity.

About the paper? Come on, the paper is in the business of selling stories, and he's a story. There's no loyalty involved. Even if he gave them the leaked files anonymously, the paper's loyalty ends with not revealing that he gave them the leaks.

He's willfully a public figure, and he's being treated like one. He's old enough to know what it means to be a public figure. Nope, no real pity.

I sure am laughing at the irony though.

[ElNono]

That's true, but I think people are finding out that Assange is really an a$$hole and that his motives for leaking all the classified information are purely evil and selfish. Karma - what goes around, comes around!

What do you find particularly evil about the document leak?
Do you think if this guy didn't leak it somebody else wouldn't have?

[ElNono]

I personally don't give a shit about the guy. I suspect he's just one face.
Once he goes down, somebody else will probably pick the ball up.

[Nbadan]

He's not American, so he could give a rat's ass about your 'free and good society'...many of the Assange leaks sure highlight some of the really nonsense stuff that govt keeps secret from us, sometimes for generations...we are supposed to be living in a country where informed people can make informed decisions, such as, bombing the shit out of a country and killing 1,000,000 of its citizens....this is exactly what the Bush Administration counted on to convince everyone else we had to go into Iraq....Had there been an Assange that was brave enough to stand up then, maybe there wouldn't be a money-pit cluster-fuck in Iraq now....

[diego]

:rolleyes
ok mister ironies, explain to me how his personal privacy is in any way comparable to the privacy of states and corporations? why is Julian Assange's personal transparency more important than the transparency of public institutions and private conglomerates? Because if you all really want to compare corps and govts to an individual like that, then I guess you would agree that they should be taxed and policed the same way as individuals are right? You can't really simultaneously argue against accountability and then hold Assange to a higher standard than your own government, can you?

(cue american exceptionalism bla bla bla)

and I love this argument that he's out to do it for his ego. Hmm, lets see. I have the ability to extract sensitive information and I'm an egomaniac. Reasonable options:

a) specialize in celebrity gossip and go for the gawker/TMZ market, making tidy sums of money and becoming a little celebrity myself, getting press passes to celebrity events and every groupie with a story to tell after me
(money: check, fame: check, glamour: check)
b) specialize in industrial / state espionage, sell it to the highest bidder, use the money and connections to extort myself into a position of extreme wealth and power
(money: double-check, power: check, glamour: half-check, fame: no)
c) specialize in corruption and abuse of power, give it away for free, risk every intelligence agency on the planet coming down on me, and the corporate media coming down on me, and even have swiss banks (the same ones that have been protecting the privacy of dictators and drug runners for decades) blacklist me
(money: where? power: where? fame: what kind? glamour: if you consider being a martyr glamorous, maybe)

yeah clearly he went for personal expediency on this. :rolleyes
I think some of you just can't fathom that the guy hasn't sold out (which would have been VERY easy to do), so that must make him a asshole or a queer.

really, please, tell me how Assange is getting ahead and making a name for himself with this. Since making the last leak, he's been accused of rape, searched for by Interpol, jailed, cut off by his bank, his credit card company, accused of treason and terrorism, had his websites attacked by other "cyber terrorists", had large parts of the media paint him as all sorts of evil, and had public officials openly discussing how to execute or assasinate him. if you call that "getting ahead" or "making a name for yourself"...

[Winehole23]

(money: where? power: where? fame: what kind? glamour: if you consider being a martyr glamorous, maybe)Notoriety is a kind of fame too and "ladies love outlaws."

Also, the notion of self-sacrifice to higher principles is an ever present seduction to sensitive idealists.

[diego]

yes I accounted for that. But is it worth much when you are persona non grata everywhere, can't travel, have no money, and thousands of people that want to kill you? Do the ladies just love terrorist rapists (as he is being called in many media outlets)?

Most of the people that put up with having thousands of people that hate and want to kill you trade that off with money and power. What is the money and power Assange is getting from this?

[Winehole23]

Do the ladies just love terrorist rapists (as he is being called in many media outlets)?Unbelievably, yes.

Most of the people that put up with having thousands of people that hate and want to kill you trade that off with money and power. What is the money and power Assange is getting from this?Speculative money and power.

If Wikileaks/Assange survives the legal process with liberty and estate intact, at some point governments will presumably be keen to strike deals.

[diego]

they would have been much more keen to strike deals before he exposed them. they won't make deals with him now that they've discredited him (at least, they'd be very stupid to make deals now that they have discredited him); the only reason they would is if there is much more and much dirtier info than has been released as of yet, and in that sense striking a deal hurts the reputation of all parties involved. If Assange wanted money and power, he would have sold this info off to the russian govt/mafia a long time ago, very handsomely I might add, and spending his fortune in serbian river casinos instead of being in house arrest somewhere in england.

[boutons_deux]

"how his personal privacy is in any way comparable to the privacy of states and corporations"

It isn't. Just another false equivalency. As the WaPo article pointed out, govt and corps operate a one-way mirror: they secretly denude us, while they operate in total secrecy.

The conservative/Repug fucktards can't see that Assange did the world a great favor. They'd rather be lied to and remain ignorant because the lies agree with their ignorant fantasies, dicklessness, and paranoia.

[cheguevara]

That's true, but I think people are finding out that Assange is really an a$$hole and that his motives for leaking all the classified information are purely evil and selfish. Karma - what goes around, comes around!

I see you have been reading Bush's playbook.


Assange... you're in the axis of evil

[Wild Cobra]

I believe this is one case where he should be cremated alive and his entire family should be exterminated to end the disease this traitor of free and good society caused. Seriously.
So you believe in corruption of blood?

[Cry Havoc]

:lmao

This thread is on pace to set a record for the amount of SpursTalk butt-hurt in one thread.

[DJ Mbenga]

whose memoir will be worse palin or assange?

[MiamiHeat]

now the turd is using the information he has as a way to blackmail and threaten people to protect himself?

ha ha ha...

[Spurminator]

I really hate this fucker.

[Winehole23]

He was a traitor before he took on Hilary. Then DarrinS's whole perspective changed. Started propping himself up on Julian Assange to ridicule others.

[Winehole23]

DarrinS never guessed that transparency might cut in any direction at all.

[Winehole23]

Assange wasn't -- isn't -- an ideological puppet. He pretty much hates power per se and sees hacking and freedom of information as a bulwark against it.

[pgardn]

Seeks power himself.

And he has a gigantic ego.

Hell of a bump though. Almost 6 years.

[RandomGuy]

http://www.news.com.au/features/wikileaks/wikileaks-boss-julian-assange-turns-on-friends-and-foes/story-fn79cf6x-1225974366476


I really hate this fucker.


WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange turns on everyone

Funny/ironic :lol

[RandomGuy]

He was a traitor before he took on Hilary. Then DarrinS's whole perspective changed. Started propping himself up on Julian Assange to ridicule others.

I am shocked, shocked I say.

[DarrinS]

He was a traitor before he took on Hilary. Then DarrinS's whole perspective changed. Started propping himself up on Julian Assange to ridicule others.

Show me a post where I've praised him. Lol @ you guys bumping old shit. :lol

[Reck]

Show me a post where I've praised him. Lol @ you guys bumping old shit. :lol

The point is that you're cheering him on with the Hillary leaks. But you were singing a different tune however many years ago.

Doesn't matter though. This guy IS a piece of shit.

I'm all for full transparency but what he does is selective targetting for his benefit.