“Julian is incredibly like-able, incredibly enjoyable to be with – if you are agreeing with him. If you criticise him, he is very abusive. He has a very high IQ but very low EQ [emotional intelligence].”
“Our raison d’être was transparency, but we were not transparent ourselves.”
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Wikileaks is facing questions over its finances as lawyers for its alleged main source, Pte Bradley Manning, said they had not seen a penny of tens of thousands of dollars raised by the site to help pay for his defence and promised to them three months ago.
Andrew Gilligan
The Sunday Telegraph [UK]
12 Dec 2010
The development comes as a senior WikiLeaks activist told The Sunday Telegraph that she and others had resigned from the organisation because of their deep concern about its treatment of sources and “lack of transparency with relation to large sums of money”.
This newspaper has learned that one of WikiLeaks’s main funding channels, the Germany-based Wau Holland Foundation, has been issued with two official warnings by charity regulators after failing to file financial records.
It has also emerged that the online payment service PayPal, which last week cut off donations to WikiLeaks, suspended the site’s account twice before, once under money laundering regulations.
…in its four-year existence, the group and its associated organisations have never produced any accounts.
WikiLeaks promised to publish accounts in August, but did not do so. It now says it will provide them by the end of the year.
The most serious concerns centre on the proceeds of a special appeal by WikiLeaks for Pte Manning, the US soldier arrested in June on suspicion of leaking 250,000 classified diplomatic cables and hundreds of thousands of military logs from the Iraq and Afghan wars…
Read the entire article at The Sunday Telegraph
Update: Julian Assange’s accusers are jealous liars, says lawyer Bjorn Hurtig
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