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Another
whistle-blower to rival WikiLeaks
Friday November 05, 2010 07:52:03 PM,
IANS
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Washington:
Whistle-blower WikiLeaks, which became popular after publishing
secret files of US military related to war in Iraq and
Afghanistan, will now face a competition from a similar website
that is to be launched by its former employees.
A group that includes former WikiLeaks staffers who left the
organisation after disagreements with founder Julian Assange is
pursuing plans for a rival document-leaking venture, said people
familiar with their plans, the Wall Street Journal reported
Friday.
One of the leaders of the new initiative is Daniel Domscheit-Berg,
a top WikiLeaks lieutenant who quit in September.
Domscheit-Berg, a German, is planning to launch new technology to
assist whistle-blowers who want to leak documents, said people
with knowledge of the matter.
"There is some indication that Daniel and some others are setting
up a similar venue, and we wish them luck," said Kristinn
Hrafnsson, a WikiLeaks spokesman, in a recent interview in London.
"It would be good to have more organisations like WikiLeaks."
Hrafnsson said another WikiLeaks insider, a "technician", also
quit the group and that "two or three volunteers" have left. He
declined to identify them. He said reports of friction within
WikiLeaks are "quite overblown."
Domscheit-Berg has earlier complained that WikiLeaks, while
pursuing the leaks about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that
dramatically raised the site's profile, has neglected to publish a
stack of lower-profile but still important documents it has
received from other parts of the world.
Speaking in London last week, Assange said WikiLeaks has
temporarily stopped accepting new documents because it has too
large a backlog and not enough resources to publish them at the
moment. He gave no details.
"I think it is not right to be receiving documents that people may
wish to get out urgently if you're not in a position to publish
them within a reasonable period of time," Assange was quoted as
saying.
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