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Sweden's 'Watergate': the true account at last?

Kristine Lowe

13 Sep 2006 — 1 min read

In today's interview with Dagens Nyheter, Per Jodenius says he was ordered to give Expressen's reporter, Niklas Svensson, the log-in details to the Social Democrats' intranet so Svensson could dig up dirt on Sweden's governing party.

The Liberal party activist, who was expelled from the party with immediate effect when news of the scandal broke, says he might as well tell the truth now that he no longer has anything to lose. His story is supported by Svensson: "I was given the information to find scandals about the Social Democrats. That was the purpose and it was explained in that way by my source," he said. Jodenius insists he got the log-in details from a colleague, who claims he got them from a friend, who says an activist in the Social Democrats' youth party (SSU) divulged them to him (puh!)

A Swedish blogger decided to check out for herself if it was possible to 'hack' the Social Democrats' intranet from the parking lot outside a SSU office, which some have speculated was how Jodenius obtained access to the intranet in the first place, and concluded that this was simply not possible (link via Johan Norberg). This further supports my speculations of last week that the whole scandal could have been manufactured by SSU, but I'm not normally a big fan of conspiracy theories so not sure what got into me that particular morning.

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