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Can’t Take The Heat?
In a CNN interview, WikiLeaks Editor-In-Chief Julian Assange walks out of the interview when he didn't like questions about a rape investigation against him.
Irony raised its ugly and humorous head as the editor-in-chief of the whistleblower Web site, WikiLeaks, Julian Assange couldn’t withstand the same scrutiny that he has given the U.S. government for so long.
During a CNN interview yesterday 
CNN article, reporter Atika Shubert was asking Assange some tough questions about himself and his role at WikiLeaks.
One of the topics that he didn’t care for was how former spokesman for WikiLeaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg, alleged that there is too much focus on Assange instead of the work of WikiLeaks.
In addition, Domscheit-Berg also alleged that Assange’s personality was preventing WikiLeaks from publishing smaller leaks.
“It is my role to be the lightning rod to attract the attacks against the organization for our work, and that is a difficult role, but on the other hand, I get undue credit,” Assange said.
And right on cue, Shubert asked Assange about Swedish authorities investigating him on two separate cases of rape and molestation.
And what does Assange do? He tells that if she keeps asking those questions he would walk out of the interview and eventually he does.
How hypocritical is it that the man who has founded a Web site dedicated in releasing such things as classified U.S. documents and other information about the Afghanistan and Iraq wars can’t take the same heat he has been directing at one of the most powerful governments in the world?
Instead of being a man about it and being the hero to other whistleblowers and answer Shubert’s questions, Assange crumbles like a cheap house of cards and walks out of the interview.
Apparently when the going gets tough, the tough walks out of the room and has a good cry.
I also wrote about Wikileaks on my blog some time ago. I got an angry comment from someone who found the article some time back. I was amused.
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