WikiLeaks' Julian Assange says US gave 'tacit approval' to embassy attacks

[Hissyspit]

14. Sigh. The headline is dishonest. We don't know that Assange wrote that tweet. Also, it was retracted

and rewritten, which OP conveniently left out, too:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/sep/13/wikileaks-benghazi-attack-julian-assange

A post on the official WikiLeaks Twitter feed, which is generally presumed to be operated by Assange, read: "By the US accepting the UK siege on the Ecuadorean embassy in London it gave tacit approval for attacks on embassies around the world."

As a series of other Twitter users objected to the language – one early response read: "@wikileaks you are losing supporters fast with comments like that." – the initial tweet was deleted, though not before some Twitter users saved images of it.

The tweet was then re-sent in two slightly amended forms, firstly: "By the US accepting the UK threat to storm the Ecuadorian embassy in London it helped to normalize attacks on embassies," and later: "By the UK threatening to breach the Ecuadorian embassy in London it helped to normalize attacks on embassies, in general. It must retract."

Yet another tweet attempted to explain the change, arguing that people had misunderstood the initial tweet because of the use of the "rare" term tacit. It read: "We have deleted and rephrased a previous tweet with the word 'tacit' in it, since the word is rare and was being misinterpreted."