Reply #24: Assange's former ally

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the German with the pseudonym, was shitting his pants when the open attacks on Wikileaks began. He criticized the "focus" on the big USG leaks while they were making Wikileaks a common household name, and when the sex smear stories broke, he publicly stated that Assange should resign. That, and his refusal to discuss his actions, was what led to his suspension as a spokesperson. Then he absconded, together with a small number of colleagues in charge of some of the infrastructure, with the result that all the already published leaks at wikileaks.org were inaccessible for several months - as he admitted in an interview he gave in Germany a few weeks after the fact.

As to Assange's "lashing out" against "his closest collaborators", the writers of the Guardian, hm, doesn't appear to be true either. Assange very specifically criticized a single article and pointed out that the Guardian writer to whom the information in this article had been made available was NOT one of the collaborators on the Cablegate stories.