This is not the first time the world has been confronted with the kind of reports that shock the world’s political and financial systems.
[T]he weight of the information which the WikiLeaks server carried provides plenty of reason to deem this a political trial.
What happened next with Assange is complicated, but it showed a guiding principle: the anti-American militant preys on the secrets of democratic countries and rarely those of totalitarian countries.
It would also be the only way to force Washington to truly review its unbridled surveillance methods.