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WikiLeaks’ Assange (Again) Walks Out of Interview After Rape Inquiries
- Posted on December 17, 2010 at 7:42pm by
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After his release on bail from custody, WikiLeaks‘ founder Julian Assange met with ABC News’ Jim Sciutto after the reporter inquired about specific details of the ongoing sexual assault investigation of Assange in Sweden. Assange refused to answer the questions, opting instead to walk off the interview set, calling Sciutto a “tabloid schmuck.”
In a similar scenario, Assange abruptly ended an interview with CNN in October after the reporter began inquiring about the rape allegations against him. At the time, Assange insisted the interview focus solely on his organization’s release of numerous classified U.S. government documents regarding the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, but when questions turned to a personal nature, Assange walked away.
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leo346
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 1:14amWhats good for the goose is good for the gander.When you play by these rules you are gonna have to expect the skeltons to come out of the colset By the end of this we will probaly know what he eats every day what he watches on the tv and the computer how he spends his money everything medical and mental about him and he should expect it to happen . He has made a lot of enemys and they will get back at him.Every thing from the time he was a child is fair game to be brought out in the public , because thats the way he plays the game and there is a lot of people that can play as good as he can and most likely will..
Report Post »HippoNips
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 1:12amFor someone who believes in openness he sure doesn’t like to answer questions about his rape charges
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:49amHere, again simple solutions that would’ve kept Manning from ever removing those documents:
Lockdown the USB ports:
http://becomingparanoid.com/2006/04/28/usb-security-how-to-lock-down-the-ports/
Remove any DVD/CD Burner from the PC he had access to. Most computers these days don’t even have disk drives anymore and it should be a system where by no email or external network access was allowed, so now ftp’ing, no emailing, its a view only system and if something needed to printed out, again it would show who printed it out, what printer and at what time…
There is no way this low level slug should’ve been able to get this kind of data out, if so, then pretty much this means all of the enemies of the US could pretty much have gotten spies enlisted and gotten into a position such as this to just copy at will whatever intelligence information that they wanted…
This more and more just doesn’t add up, the military could not be this sloppy, something is truly wrong with this picture and this Assange guy is a nobody and a nothing, he isn’t even news, what needs all our focus is Manning and why our military isn’t even using basic Document Control software and safeguards and why was a computer allowed access to classified information that was wide open to plug whatever the hell a guy wanted into it to download materials…
This just isn’t adding up.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:22amHe puts secrets into the spotlight without permission, using stolen materials, but he can’t handle answering questions posed on him… the guy is a nobody and a loser… his 3 ring circus has become a bore, his 15 minutes of internet fame are over, its time to move onto something and someone who actually is of importance, YAWN…
Report Post »Hollowave21
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:34amI double the yawn…yawn…
Report Post »firstamend
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:59pmIt’s an ongoing case, still in the early stages – it‘s his personal business and he is innocent until proven guilty as far as I’m concerned. Wikileaks is the real story making huge waves with drops of these documents, and this guy wants to talk to Assange about his personal life and to get him confess to rape on TV?
Report Post »Randyrocker
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:55pmGo to:
Report Post »http://www.maxkeiser.com
to watch a full length feature video about Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. It is well worth it, and it brings you up to speed on the whole affair of internet information and data presentation to an awakening world, that’s being deceived by its ruling class. As Glenn Beck keeps saying, he points out that he’s not making this stuff up, he’s using their own words against them, well isn’t Julian Assange using their own words and writings against them? You decide.
Randyrocker
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:48pmIn the CNN interview, one could see the interviewer wasn‘t listening or heeding Julian Assange’s advice and persisted to press him on an issue far removed from the more important issue he was their to address. Why is it that these amateur interviewers believe that they and they alone will be the ones to uncover and expose some ambushed surprised response, that will therefore make them as important as or a household name and famous in their own write, when that’s not their real job, their job is to listen and to probe and to focus on the real story at issue, the one that affects many lives, and not just the salacious details that they will never unearth, from one of the world’s greatest unearthers. Makes one cheer when someone takes a stand and refuses to subject oneself to an inquisition from a junior member of the media press corps. CNN should’ve given this talking head a verbal lashing for messing up the interview and perhaps losing in the process a major scoop. The trouble is their CNN’s junior female interviewer wanted to dance into the bedroom when the real story was happening right in front of her in the room she was already in. Hopefully she’ll learn from this episode, how to conduct herself in the future when talking with a professional information handler, something that right now, she herself can’t handle.
Report Post »The real story is not Julian Assange but those he’s reporting on through WikiLeaks, but the news media wish to keep the public mind off of those stories, so they address the other. It’s called diversion, and they and the public being served by these WikiLeaks reports are the losers for allowing themselves to be sidetracked by these alphabet news makers that are either told what to ask or haven’t a clue.
Internet AnchormanTV
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:33pmTotally coverup. They will use wikileaks to censor the internet. The UN is already moving forward with internet censorship and we know the FCC is meeting on the 21st. Buy a printer with plenty of paper, you will need it to pass out information in about a year.
Report Post »http://www.internetanchorman.tv
capitalismrocks
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:32amExactly — Never let a good disaster go to waste, or something like that…
Its like, they artificially create these issues, these problems so that the govt or God help us all… the UN has to come to the worlds aid, but shuttering information, censorship, control of global communications, free speech and information…
Maybe if the military had better security protocols in place, this wouldn’t have happened and quite frankly it astounds me, is this MUST be some kind of fabricated setup… A company I consulted with back in the 90′s installed a document “check in/check out” system for a very large legal firm in Philly and there was accountability, tracking and alerts, also why on earth are they allowing USB ports or any form of data OUT enabled on any of these machines?!?!? Even in hospitals, if you want to print out a document, it actually will record who the person is who requested the print job, time and what printer it went to….
So if Manning was copying gigs of data, without any kind of parameters as to what he should/shouldn’t be allowed to access and was just blanket copying, this should’ve been easily noticed, it should’ve set off some kind of security triggers and an Admin shouldve taken notice…
Me thinks this could very well have been an orchestrated “event” to allow these materials to leak purposefully for the ultimate goal of just what is happening now… an FCC illegal attempt to control the US internet and a UN attempt to control free speech…
I think we need to stop looking at the one hand and pay attention to what the other is up to, because the way this whole Lady GaGa copying fiasco has been told, it should’nt have been possible, unless some very high up’s, perhaps all the way up to the Executive Level’s, allowed it to to happen.
Report Post »capitalismrocks
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:34amIts like, they artificially create these issues, these problems so that the govt or God help us all… the UN has to come to the worlds aid, but shuttering information, censorship, control of global communications, free speech and information…
Maybe if the military had better security protocols in place, this wouldn’t have happened and quite frankly it astounds me, is this MUST be some kind of fabricated setup… A company I consulted with back in the 90′s installed a document “check in/check out” system for a very large legal firm in Philly and there was accountability, tracking and alerts, also why on earth are they allowing USB ports or any form of data OUT enabled on any of these machines?!?!? Even in hospitals, if you want to print out a document, it actually will record who the person is who requested the print job, time and what printer it went to….
So if Manning was copying gigs of data, without any kind of parameters as to what he should/shouldn’t be allowed to access and was just blanket copying, this should’ve been easily noticed, it should’ve set off some kind of security triggers and an Admin shouldve taken notice…
Me thinks this could very well have been an orchestrated “event” to allow these materials to leak purposefully for the ultimate goal of just what is happening now… an FCC illegal attempt to control the US internet and a UN attempt to control free speech…
I think we need to stop looking at the one hand and pay attention to what the other is up to, because the way this whole Lady GaGa copying fiasco has been told, it should’nt have been possible, unless some very high up’s, perhaps all the way up to the Executive Level’s, allowed it to to happen.
Report Post »Diamond Girl
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:55pmSorry msm, if the agreement is made beforehand not to bring up the seemingly bogus charges against Assange via interview and the nitwit talking head doesn’t heed the agreement, I don’t blame him or anyone else from doing the same.
Too bad we haven’t seen the same done to plenty of talking heads in the last three decades or so regarding interviews with the repub/conservative side of life, they need to buy a clue from this example from Assange, grow a spine and you’d be surprised how you would eventually be treated if this were done in unison over time repubs.
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:44pmAdd your comments
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 10:42pmDon’t worry Julie, the Saudis will give you bagels every day.
Report Post »Obama renders enemy combatants you know.
dadsrootbeer
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:52pmPlease come back to America. We are waiting….Oh, heard you are very afraid of that you wimp.
Report Post »TheBMT
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 1:33amJust like Dick Cheney and Nigeria with the Bribery Charges….. Dick Cheney aint going anywhere out of this country.
Report Post »LetTheTruthSpill
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 2:49amThis is typical of people that are plainly confused about life in general.“Lets kill the messenger so that we can listen to more BS”.Well i,m not sure about you clowns but i for one are fed up to my eyeballs with being told lies from the “establishment” via the media houses that pay the most, into political donations.If you clowns want to ostracise the messenger,so be it but just remember,if the Wikileaks website is taken down or Julian Assange is assassinated by the embarrassed U.S govt and the glitter of hope of transparency,accountability and open govt is erased,you only have yourselves to blame.
Report Post »mndjohnson
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:52pmI hope they all got tested for communicable diseases.
Report Post »vic138
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:37pmNothing to see here… But seriously, he’s a dork and has been lucky to have these emails passed onto him. Shut these websites down and let him have his 15 minutes of fame. Ignore this guy and make him go away…
Report Post »CaptainSpaulding
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:48pmI guess not all leaks are equal.
Assange is going to walk. He’s a big liberal with big rich liberal friends.
The law only applies to little people.
Now pay your taxes, they need a raise. :)
Report Post »GoingBeck
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:42pmI heard he is concerned about being extradicted to America.
Report Post »That should be the least of his problems, unless he heard
the Obama administration renders enemy combatants to
the Saudis.
mossbrain
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:32pmA one minute advertisement to watch that ABC clip??? Boycott ABC.
If you want to see something really disturbing go watch the 3rd Matrix movie and compare Assange with “The Frenchman” who appears at the beginning of the movie. There are some creepy similarities, almost like the movie Inception’s plot with a dream in a dream in a dream, which is which?
Report Post »mcFirst
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:21pmtoo me he just wants to not talk about tabloid news when we have people being killed every day.
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:21pmThe Blaze has turned into the new enquirer
Report Post »mossbrain
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:18pmDid any of you see the show Glenn did on the, some would say femi-nazis, that are charging Assange with rape? These are perhaps VERY shady women. One of them even wrote a manifesto on 10 ways to get vengence on a lover who jilted her. I for one am wondering if these women cast a shadow that has horns and a tail.
Report Post »Passerby
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:16pmHe’s a stalker. Emails have shown up where he persecutes women with wierd emails.
Report Post »kryptonite
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 6:22amHardly. Most women throw themselves at him. This one didn’t and it piqued his interest. If women weren’t fawning over him constantly, he probably wouldn’t be so egocentric.
Report Post »Strife
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:01pmnon-story… Who cares… I wouldn’t have either be it for legal reasons or whatever. What does he have to gain by talking about it…
I don’t particularly like him or what he stands for, but this is still a non-story.
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:15pmThe story is that he describes ABC perfectly…
Report Post »walkwithme1966
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:05pmActually I rather agree with you – this guy is just a non-story to me! http://maboulette.wordpress.com
Report Post »TSUNAMI-22
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:32pmAssange is nothing more than a common ham of a hoodlum fencing stolen property. What goes around, comes around, Julianne.
Pride comes before the fall.
Report Post »Republic
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 1:51pmThe story is not the sex allegation. The story is the idiot reporter who asked the question knowing full well that Assange can not answer it. And, often times the person being interviewed has put out ground rules on the questions to be asked prior to the interview. I would suggest that the reporter violated the ground rules.
Report Post »CaptGregg
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 7:52pmCoward!
Report Post »Nvrforget
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 7:58pmThere are probably legal reasons, too. Assange was probably advised not to talk about the rape charges outside of the court.
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 7:48pmWhat goes around…..freedom of speech…he may be a schmuck, but he can ask the questions.
Report Post »MeteoricLimbo
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:07pmcan he also walk away…
Report Post »BrotherWill
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:03amYeah walk away, which makes him look guilty.
Report Post »CatB
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 4:28pmI agree for someone who wants to release information he doesn’t seem very forthcoming with his.
Report Post »silveracer44
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 7:47pmGo Julian
Report Post »VanGrungy
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:14pmAs long as he doesn‘t know who gives him the stuff and doesn’t plan the targets, he is ok in my book…
Technically speaking, of course… I’d still like to give him a fat lip just to see the little wimp tear up..
Report Post »13thGenerationAmerican
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 8:27pmI agree. I can handle the truth, it‘s the lying I can’t stand – I won’t tolerate it.
Report Post »nptden
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 9:24pmTouchy, Touchy, ….hmmm.. the ‘lightning rod’ of ‘transparency’ doesn’t seem able to withstand, minor sparks…..Like his buddy in the Marine Brig….How noble…‘the Organization’ must be so proud.
Report Post »Anarcho Capitalist
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 4:43amas an anarchist my self i have to love the guy. He has done nothing wrong and is ******* the state off. The man is gandhi. He may be a communist at heart but that contradicts anarchy because the 2 are opposites. like i said, love the guy despite what may be his major contradiction.
Report Post »NapoHill15
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 12:05pmJulian Assange has got to be one of the greatest ironies of all time for liberals and their media to manage . . .
Michael Moore figured it out a long time ago because he’ll obviously put anything into his mouth. But judgment of Mr. Assange aside, the great irony surrounding the issue of his purpose, and how liberals approach the dissemination of truth, they’re literally inviting a pyromaniac with a bucket of gas to stand in the middle of their smoking-room.
It’s as if they don’t understand why he’s here . . . Living in a constant state of irony and contradiction must make you blind to reality even when it’s staring you in the face from mere inches away.
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