A Swedish prosecutor’s decision to reopen the rape case against Julian Assange gives new life to the ongoing debates about WikiLeaks. Assange, the site’s founder, has not only denied ever having had “nonconsensual sex” with the two women who have accused him, but has also insinuated that the American government could be behind the accusations, driving a Pentagon smear campaign designed to neutralize Assange and his troublesome organization.

Is this likely? And what, if anything, does this bizarre chapter in the WikiLeaks story say about its founder–or the Swedish legal system, for that matter?

Read one side of story at The Atlantic Wire…and then read the other at the Fabius Maximus blog.

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Who to believe in the Wikileaks rape case?

Read one side of story at The Atlantic Wire…and then read the other at the Fabius Maximus blog.

Making a difference

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