‘I was targeted after I made Assange sex crime claim’ says accuser of Wikileaks founder

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111. You know that's not what I'm saying.

I'm questioning the validity of the rape charge. And I'm comparing the whole thing to the Lewinsky affair, because it represents the same distortion of scale that happen there, where we were asked to condemn a president and all his policies for a marital indiscretion.

What do I mean by matters of scale? Look at this story:
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/05/air-force-lt-col-jeffrey-krusinski-mum-after-court-on-sexual-battery-case/

Krusinski, the Air Force officer who was in charge of sexual assault prevention but has himself been charged with groping a woman, appeared at the Arlington County, Virginia, courthouse Thursday afternoon to receive a trial date.

And ask yourself, with thousands of rapes in the military a year and most unreported, what kind of culture leads to a situation where the guy in charge of the sexual assault program is convicted of sexual misconduct.

The culture is a "snitches lie in ditches" culture. Its a culture that sees to it that whistle blowers like Bradley Manning, and the journalist he leaked to Julian Assange, pay in a very public way. That culture fosters things like sexual assaults, none of which receive the attention of the overseas Assange case. The persecution of Aaron Swartz, Wikileaks, and all the rest of the people fighting for openness and disclosure is a perpetuation of the exact culture of secrecy in which victims are silenced

Maybe Assange is guilty, I don't know. But when I see his work this work marginalized due to focusing on his alleged sexual misconduct, it raises big red flags for me.