While the world continues to deal with the WikiLeaks fallout, a University of Calgary professor is causing controversy.
Earlier this week, Tom Flanagan, a man who once influenced the prime minister made controversial remarks to the CBC about the founder of the world's most famous whistle-blowing website - WikiLeaks.
He called for the assassination of the website's founder, Julian Assange.
The video has gone viral on the web, and fallout has been fierce at the university where Flanagan teachers three political science classes a week.
The school has already received more than a hundred emails, letters, and phone calls with some demanding Flanagan be fired.
But the university is standing by its professor, saying he won't face any disciplinary action.
"Our view was that Dr. Flanagan was speaking as an individual, not representing those views for the University of Calgary," says the U of C's Grady Semmens.
The marked man himself is speaking out about it on an online forum run by Britian's Guardian newspaper.
"Mr. Flanagan and the others seriously making these statements should be charged with incitement to commit murder," says Assange.
Flanagan was once Stephen Harper's chief of staff and most recently advised Ric McIver in the city's mayoral race.
Flanagan wouldn't talk to CTV on camera, but sent an email saying, "I'm not feeding the story. I made a thoughtless comment that I have retracted with regret. It was never a serious proposal."
