Sweden email ‘Watergate’ scandal
p2p news / p2pnet: It’s a blue-on-blue for an email attack against Sweden’s Moderate Party leader Fredrik Reinfeldt.
"The offending emails were sent by a party worker at Social Democrat headquarters," says The Local. "An internal investigation traced the person on Thursday, but Social Democrats have so far refused to release their colleague’s name or reveal the position he or she holds in the party."
"The attacks are so serious, and many people can identify themselves with Reinfeldt’s situation," the story has Peter Esaiasson, professor of political science at Gothenburg University, saying.
"We’re talking about fabricated stories that can be linked directly to a party’s headquarters. I don’t know of anything similar in Sweden and it’s almost at the same level as the Watergate scandal.”
The Social Democrats have scored an "obvious own goal," Esaiasson says, according to The Local.
Also See:
The Local – Email scandal ‘Sweden’s Watergate’, February 24, 2006
