“We were warned to expect ‘dirty tricks,‘” he tweeted. “now we have the first one.” He'd been set up, he told reporters. His lawyer attributed the allegations to “dark forces,” part of a “greater plan” to discredit him (Harnden). The “we” (and “he”) in question was Julian Assange, a thirty-nine-year-old Australian and founder of the guerrilla media organization WikiLeaks, which dedicates itself to embarrassing governments and corporations through strategic leaks of classified and secret documents to the media. Assange has yet to be formally charged with anything, although he's currently under house arrest at the English country estate of one of his supporters and facing extradition to Sweden after allegedly sexually assaulting two women there. The women, both WikiLeaks supporters, did consent to have sex with him, but apparently not the kind of sex he had in mind. As one of them put it, “Not only was it the worst screw of my life, it was also violent” (qtd. in Davies).