Chief Marketing Officer of Wikileaks

This post on Gizmodo is an excerpt from a new book bring published this week, Inside Wikileaks: My Time with Julian Assange at the World's Most Dangerous Website.


Based on the excerpt, I stand by my opinion that Assange is, most of all, a narcissist, and perhaps even crossing the clinical threshold.

On numerous occasions, Julian accused the Icelandic police of keeping him under surveillance. He also informed our-no, sorry, his-Twitter followers that two operatives from the Ameri­can State Department had followed him onto a plane while he was en route to a conference in Oslo. Our hotel, too, had been watched, Julian trumpeted, and unmarked cars had tailed us. He loved these stories because they assured him of a rapt audience. Once, he terrified a woman he was spending the night with so much with his secret-agent stories that she fled and was too scared to return to her own apartment. Julian stayed behind and made himself comfortable.

These actions, and others cited in the article, are those of someone who has constructed a world around him, a world where he is the center of everything.

This will be entertaining to watch.