The Smithian

Julian Assange seemed like an intriguing topic for prolific documentarian Alex Gibney, but little did he know the rabbit hole of secrets, lies and hypocrisy he would find as he dug into his subject.

an interview with GIbney, here.

via CJ.

Michael Hastings is in the news this week for his latest book, The Operators, a 379-page follow-up to the journalist’s explosive profile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, whose career-making spot as the top U.S. military commander in Afghanistan came to a…halt after the article revealed him trash-talking Vice President Joseph Biden and some of the president’s top aides. Now the…reporter…is gearing up to publish an extensive interview that Hastings recently conducted with elusive WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange…

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WikiLeaks said it is taking “legal action” over a tell-all book to be released Friday by a former staffer that is critical of its founder, Julian Assange…In “Inside WikiLeaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World’s Most Dangerous Website,” former staffer, Daniel Domscheit-Berg…who was WikiLeaks’ second-in-command before falling out with Mr. Assange last summer, writes of tensions between WikiLeaks’ core members and Mr. Assange. They disagreed, he writes, over Mr. Assange’s leadership style, his paranoia… and the way he managed WikiLeaks’ finances…When he and other core members left WikiLeaks, he writes, they decided to take much of its leaked material and a crucial system they had worked on that allows for the secure submission of new leaks…

more, here.

Is MIA the Julian Assange of Pop Music?

there will be a

WikiLeaks Documentary; Separate Julian Assange Biopic Also Planned

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art: Wall-paint by Cart’1 @ the Abode of Chaos

Julian Assange Denied Bail, Remanded Into Custody

and Vanity Fair poses a challenge:

see if you can tell the difference between a statement from Assange’s editorial and a pronouncement culled from Palin’s celebrated career as southern Alaska’s premier media critic …

more, here.