WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is ‘mad, sad and bad’, claims ghost writer Andrew O’Hagan

[struggle4progress]

Lewis Smith
Saturday 22 February 2014

... O’Hagan described Assange as a vain man who, for all his idealism “is an actor who believes all the lines in the play are there to feed his lines; that none of the other lives is substantial in itself”.

He wrote: “He sees every idea as a mere spark from a fire in his own mind. That way madness lies, of course, and the extent of Julian’s lying convinced me that he is probably a little mad, sad and bad, for all the glory of WikiLeaks as a project.

“The impulse towards free speech…is only permissible if it adheres to his message. His pursuit of governments and corporations was a ghostly reverse of his own fears for himself. That was the big secret with him: he wanted to cover up everything about himself except his fame” ...

“When Jemima Khan publicly broke with him, he didn’t pause to ask why a loyal supporter might become aggrieved; when I raised it with him he simply made a horribly sexist remark” ...

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/media/press/wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-is-mad-sad-and-bad-claims-ghost-writer-andrew-ohagan-9146457.html

[Tarheel_Dem]

1. I think we've known for some time that women are disposable where JA's concerned.

[Fearless]

2. All of which, if true, is still irrelevant

To the fact that he has done the world a service exposing unconstitutional and illegal spying practices.

[1StrongBlackMan]

4. You're confusing assange with snowden and gg ...

snowden was the one that stole the confidential information and gave it to gg to print (and Russia and China to do whatever with) ... assange either financed it or just came in after the fact.

[Fearless]

5. They both played rolls

Snowden's was of course more prominent.

[marble falls]

3. He seems a very cold person.