WikiLeaks Staff Defect, Create Rival Site

High-level workers at the site say that a lack of transparency and Julian Assange’s high profile have compromised the effectiveness of WikiLeaks.

With governments around the world calling for Assange’s head, even members of his own site have begun defecting. Assange’s anti-American ideology and celebrity status has unsettled WikiLeaks second-in-command Daniel Domscheit-Berg to the point that he has announced he’s spearheading the creation of OpenLeaks, a site he says will be virtually invisible and allow whistleblowers of all political stripes a direct link to media outlets with no interference from the site’s developers. Domscheit-Berg is apparently taking with him many of the core staff at WikiLeaks, who believe Assange’s apparent vendetta against the U.S. compromises the avowed neutrality of the site. Assange has released several statements denouncing people exposed by WikiLeaks, which many of his former compatriots saw as inappropriate.