Former Members Wikileaks Site Make Counter, Openleaks

Openleaks

Affirming that the founder of Wikileaks, Julian Assange had "weakened the organization," a new organization that would rival the famous site Wikileaks for daring to divulge confidential document, will officially be launched this Monday (13/12).

The founders of the site Openleaks.org say they are former members of the WikiLeaks are not happy with the way WikiLeaks goes under the leadership Assange.

"Actions Assange has weakened the organization," said one of the founders Openleaks, Daniel Domscheit-Berg says in a documentary that aired Sunday night on Swedish television network SVT. He said WikiLeaks be "too much focus on one person, and one person was always much weaker than an organization."

In an e-mail to CNN, Domscheit-Berg said they hoped the group would launch site Openleaks.org on Monday (13/12).

As WikiLeaks, which facilitates the disclosure of confidential information derived from anonymous, Openleaks says the goal is to help people in conveying material from the mass media and other organizations without teriidentifikasi.

Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter, citing internal documents Openleaks, reported that the new site is intended to act as intermediaries, "without any political agenda except of distributing information to the media, public organizations, nonprofit organizations, trade organizations and the participation of trade unions and other groups."

Domscheit-Berg says WikiLeaks put "everything we had" to a high-profile disclosure of hundreds of thousands of secret documents the U.S. over the last five months.

"I think the wisest thing to do is do it slowly, step by step, to revive this project. And it did not happen," he says in the documentary SVT.

Assange and WikiLeaks has been the focus of condemnation around the world since the first release of key secret U.S. documents released in July. Since then Wikileaks began to reveal more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cable in November.

However Domscheit-Berg says, "If you preach about transparency for others, you must be transparent to yourself."

"You must meet the same standards you expect from others," he told SVT. "And I think that where we were not headed in the same direction philosophically again."

Former staff other WikiLeaks said he was not satisfied with Assange, but the founders did not want to listen to WikiLeaks.

WikiLeaks spokesman Kristinn Hrafnsson do not want to discuss differences of opinion between Assange and another former member of the organization Wikileaks. But for the planned launch of rival site rival groups, he said, "more and more, the better.