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JA: One of the witnesses. One of the friends of one of those women, she says that one of the women states that she was bamboozled into this by police and others. These women may be victims in this process.
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JA: I am not going to be exposing other people's private lives or my own more than is absolutely necessary. That is not what a gentleman does, that why I have also never criticised these women. We don't know precisely what pressures they have been under, exactly. There are powerful interests that have incentives to promote these smears. That doesn't mean that they got in there in the very beginning and fabricated them.
[....]
I have never said that this is a honey-trap. [....] I have never said that this is not a honey-trap. I'm not accusing anyone until I have proof. [....] It is less probable that there was [honeytrap] type of involvement at the very beginning. That kind of classic Russian-Moscow thing. That is not probable.
[....]
Q: How many women have you slept with?
JA: That's a private business. Not only does a gentleman not tell, not only does a gentleman [not] like to talk about his private life, a gentleman certainly doesn't count.
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An interview on journalistic freedom:
http://mycommonsensepolitics.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2586:exclusive-julian-assange-video-interview-with-cenk-uygur&catid=115:journalism-brutal-truths&Itemid=137
JA: One of the witnesses. One of the friends of one of those women, she says that one of the women states that she was bamboozled into this by police and others. These women may be victims in this process.
[....]
JA: I am not going to be exposing other people's private lives or my own more than is absolutely necessary. That is not what a gentleman does, that why I have also never criticised these women. We don't know precisely what pressures they have been under, exactly. There are powerful interests that have incentives to promote these smears. That doesn't mean that they got in there in the very beginning and fabricated them.
[....]
I have never said that this is a honey-trap. [....] I have never said that this is not a honey-trap. I'm not accusing anyone until I have proof. [....] It is less probable that there was [honeytrap] type of involvement at the very beginning. That kind of classic Russian-Moscow thing. That is not probable.
[....]
Q: How many women have you slept with?
JA: That's a private business. Not only does a gentleman not tell, not only does a gentleman [not] like to talk about his private life, a gentleman certainly doesn't count.
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An interview on journalistic freedom:
http://mycommonsensepolitics.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2586:exclusive-julian-assange-video-interview-with-cenk-uygur&catid=115:journalism-brutal-truths&Itemid=137
