Plotting Doubted in WikiLeaks Case

[Jeffersons Ghost]

Plotting Doubted in WikiLeaks Case
By JOHN F. BURNS


STOCKHOLM — Although Swedish prosecutors have yet to complete their review of sexual abuse accusations that two Stockholm women made last week against Julian Assange, founder of the WikiLeaks Web site, those who say they have detailed knowledge of the case discount conspiracy theories linking it to efforts to discredit WikiLeaks.

Mr. Assange had suggested over the weekend that the tortured sequence of events at the Stockholm prosecutor’s office had been prompted by the Pentagon as part of what he called a program of “dirty tricks to ruin us.” The prosecutors had issued a warrant for Mr. Assange’s arrest on suspicion of rape on Friday night, which was followed within 24 hours by the cancellation of the warrant and a formal retraction of the implication that a rape had occurred.

But the conspiratorial view has found no backing from the prosecutor’s office, where the senior prosecutor in charge of the case, Eva Finne, said Monday that nothing she knew of the case suggested that there had been any outside involvement in the events that led the two women to make their accusations against Mr. Assange.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/24/world/europe/24wikileaks.html?_r=1&ref=global-home

The timing of these allegations says plenty.

[mattvermont]

1. they did the same to

scott ritter...remember?

[sendero]

2. Yeah..

.. the prosecutor is going to come out and say they were punked. Sorry, anything they say is pure spin and deflection.

[LiberalAndProud]

3. weasel words

no outside involvement in the events that led the two women to make their accusations ...

It's not the accusations I'm wondering about, it's the decision to issue an arrest warrant, and oddly enough, Ms. Finne's comments don't touch on that particular curiosity.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

4. exactly and why was the warrant canceled

[LiberalAndProud]

5. It seems clear that the warrant was canceled because it wasn't warranted.

Clearly, it took them as long as overnight to come to this conclusion. That the warrant was issued and widely reported is the part that is so odoriferous. And we are to believe there was no agenda?

I am offended that they believe we are that gullible.

[Jeffersons Ghost]

6. "I am offended that they believe we are that gullible."

there was more publicity at the beginning. Many likely still believe that the warrant is still in place.

[stray cat]

7. Sweden is now out to get you?

[Jeffersons Ghost]

8. two women are out to get Wikileaks. Do you think they were prompted?