WikiLeaks’ spokesman to step down

(CNN) — A leading spokesman for WikiLeaks has said he is stepping down, citing organizational shortcomings and clashes with the group’s founder.

Daniel Domscheit-Berg, who was known as Daniel Schmitt while acting as spokesman, said the whistle-blower website has structural problems stemming from its rapid growth, the German magazine Der Spiegel reported Monday.

WikiLeaks was thrust into the international spotlight earlier this year when it released some 76,000 pages of U.S. documents related to the war in Afghanistan.

“Because of the high pressure we have all been under following the publication of the American military documents, we have not been able to restructure our organization accordingly. This has created a situation in which not all of the work is being done correctly, and that is overwhelming the project,” Domscheit-Berg said, according to Der Spiegel.

“WikiLeaks has a structural problem. I no longer want to take responsibility for it, and that’s why I am leaving the project,” he said.

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