Wikileaks claims to sue defector who wrote tell-all book

Body of story taken from the Independent:

Kristinn Hrafnsson, a spokesman for WikiLeaks, has confirmed that the organisation will take legal action against a former member of the website (Daniel Domscheit-Berg) who left after a bitter fallout with founder Julian Assange and went on to set up a rival whistle-blowing platform.

Mr Domscheit-Berg, who is launching his own whistle-blowing websites OpenLeaks, has written a 'warts and all' memoir of his time at WikiLeaks in which he accuses Mr Assange of being an irresponsible and autocratic leader who once threatened to kill him.

The book, “Inside WikiLeaks”, is one of just a number of recent memoirs from people who have worked with Mr Assange that portray the WikiLeaks founder in a poor light.

In some of the most damaging passages, Mr Domscheit-Berg describes his former colleague as an intensely paranoid man who began travelling with bodyguards, ruled over his followers as an “emperor” and had a particular fondness for young women, money and power.

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