WikiLeaks' Assange rape case reopened (WikiRape Case Reopened)

New York Post ^ | August 30, 2010 | Associated Press

[RobinMasters]

STOCKHOLM — A senior Swedish prosecutor reopened a rape investigation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange today, the latest twist to a puzzling case in which prosecutors of different ranks have overruled each other.

Assange has denied the allegations and suggested they are part of a smear campaign by opponents of WikiLeaks — an online whistle-blower that has angered Washington by publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan.

The case was dismissed last week by Eva Finne, chief prosecutor in Stockholm, who overruled a lower-ranked prosecutor and said there was no reason to suspect that Assange, an Australian citizen, had raped a Swedish woman who had reported him to police.

[RobinMasters]

[BitterKlingon]

This is going to be one of those things that keeps getting dragged out forever, like “Bush Stole The Election”, “The CIA killed JFK”, “FDR Knew About Pearl Harbor”, etc.

[jiggyboy]

an online whistle-blower that has angered Washington by publishing thousands of leaked documents about U.S. military activities in Iraq and Afghanistan

I doubt that he'd include "multiple episodes of rape" in his post-leak plan of trying to stay invisible.

[TEXOKIE]

bttt

[justlurking]

Before everyone gets excited, I suggest that you read this article:

Supporters dismissed rape accusations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange... but the two women involved tell a different story

If the article is accurate, then Assange is a jerk, but not a rapist -- except maybe under Swedish law.

[DrC]

“If the article is accurate, then Assange is a jerk, but not a rapist”

This is the first article I’ve seen that finally offers some details about what happened. I concur this wasn’t rape (unless that was blacked out). I find it annoying that women can charge men with “Monday-morning quarterbacking” rape. It’s pretty clear that both women engaged in consensual sex and then had retrospective regrets about it.

[StAnDeliver]

At the risk of repeating myself...This EuroLeftist pimp has his rep permanently, deservingly scarred by a couple of flings, precisely because other EuroLeftist pimps created the criminalization of regret. And the regret is all his!