President President Barack Obama should resign if it can be shown that he approved spying by US diplomatic figures on UN officials, the founder of WikiLeaks said in an interview published Sunday.
Excuse me,
"The whole chain of command who was aware of this order, and approved it, must resign if the US is to be seen to be a credible nation that obeys the rule of law. The order is so serious it may well have been put to the president for approval," Julian Assange told Spanish daily El Pais.
By this logic, Julian Stavro should resign from the human race, since he has been spying on practically everybody.
"Obama must answer what he knew about this illegal order and when. If he refuses to answer or there is evidence he approved of these actions, he must resign," he added during an Internet chat interview published online.
Au contraire, arch-villain of the innertubes, I would demand the resignation of any president who refused to spy on that wretched hive of scum and villainy at the UN.
WikiLeaks threw US diplomacy into chaos when it started releasing more than 250,000 classified State Department cables on November 28, creating an international firestorm as American diplomats' private assessments of foreign leaders and politics have been publicly aired.
According to one of the documents, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked for UN personnel's telephones, emails, credit card details and frequent flier numbers.
The United States and other governments said the release of the documents broke their laws.
Assange gave the interview to El Pais on Saturday from an undisclosed location.
a cave under George Galloway's Portuguese villa.
The 39-year-old Australian is believed to be in Britain, and a report said he could be arrested this week.
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I am in favor of starting an Assange death pool; not advocating, mind you; just estimating. We could make it interesting by including both date and method. I will take February 1st by polonium capsule.