Double Standards
As it happens the Sunday Times had the best take yesterday on the ongoing WikiLeaks saga - see post dated 19 December 2010 - 'Celebrity Justice'.
The newspaper reported - without a hit of irony - that lawyers for Julian Assange are angry that incriminating police files have been published - giving graphic details of Assange's alleged sexual assault on two Swedish women.
Now I may have got this all wrong - but I understood that raison d'etre of WikiLeaks was that there's no such thing as private information anymore - that just about everything's up for grabs these days.
Not so it would appear - because Assange's Swedish lawyer (Bjorn Hurtig) said he would lodge a formal complaint to the relevant authorities and ask them to investigate how such sensitive material - was leaked into the public domain.
So it would seem that WikiLeaks is happy to publish any information from any source - but wants the right to complain and cry foul - if someone else decides to plays them at their own game
The newspaper reported - without a hit of irony - that lawyers for Julian Assange are angry that incriminating police files have been published - giving graphic details of Assange's alleged sexual assault on two Swedish women.
Now I may have got this all wrong - but I understood that raison d'etre of WikiLeaks was that there's no such thing as private information anymore - that just about everything's up for grabs these days.
Not so it would appear - because Assange's Swedish lawyer (Bjorn Hurtig) said he would lodge a formal complaint to the relevant authorities and ask them to investigate how such sensitive material - was leaked into the public domain.
So it would seem that WikiLeaks is happy to publish any information from any source - but wants the right to complain and cry foul - if someone else decides to plays them at their own game
