Feminists used this nuanced campaign to launch #MooreandMe to attack Michael Moore, Keith Olbermann, Naomi Wolf and any other supporters suggesting this case seemed to be political or that women should not be using this case to advance a women's rights agenda because there are better cases of injustice out there to be used to raise awareness of how rape is often engrained in culture.
Assange and his organization have been accused of being connected to the CIA, Mossad or George Soros, etc. The Telegraph in England, which was given a batch of cables a little over a month ago, had a blogger post allegations from "an unnamed Iranian analyst during an undisclosed interview on Al Jazeera," who said "Wikileaks had to be a front for these organizations given the nature of the diplomatic cables which discredit "the region's leaders and Iran in particular.'" A post on HumanityinChaos.com recently outlined how all of this has snowballed into a belief that Assange is some kind of agent of imperialism.
Allegations of working for Mossad were said to have come from Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was interviewed by SyriaTruth. Domscheit-Berg denied the allegations saying, "I have been notified about the general rumour a few weeks ago, and shortly after about the appearance of me as involved in those allegations. I have never spoken to anyone at syriatruth or that reporter that is making these claims, nor do I know anything about any deals JA has allegedly made with Israelis."
Domscheit-Berg has made his own allegations, which the media have made the center of news reports on Assange. He claims Assange is incapable of listening to other people's views, he has celebrated philandering and boasted about "fathering children in various parts of the world," preferably with women "younger than 22." He has made Assange seem like someone into animal abuse by spreading a story about Assange suffering from a "psychosis" that led him to spread his "fingers like a fork" and grab his cat by it's throat.
What most reports on Domscheit-Berg gloss over is the charge by WikiLeaks that, as Reuters reported, "WikiLeaks's ability to receive new leaks has been crippled after" Domscheit-Berg "unplugged a component which guaranteed anonymity
to would-be leakers." Or, that he took a "backlog" of leaks that his new organization OpenLeaks could publish.
Executive editor for the New York Times Bill Keller, whose newspaper was denied access to cables because for both batches of Iraq and Afghanistan war logs they showed the government the material they had before publishing, has written Assange is "eccentric," "manipulative," "arrogant," "volatile," "thin-skinned," "conspiratorial and oddly credulous." He says Assange was a "source," not a "partner" in previous releases and contends he would hesitate to call what WikiLeaks does journalism.
Vice President Joe Biden has claimed Assange is a "high-tech terrorist." He alleged that Assange has risked lives or jobs of people around the world, especially Afghans working with the US as informants. This allegation, however, is dubious when considering a statement from Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell made on December 1, 2010:
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