Will WikiLeaks unravel the American 'secret government'?

[Peter Presland]

It seems Wikileaks operations and people may have more pressing worries than being targeted by the US Authorities. This from The Daily Beast:

Moscow's Bid to Blow Up WikiLeaks

National-security officials say that the National Security Agency, the U.S. government’s eavesdropping agency, has already picked up tell-tale electronic evidence that WikiLeaks is under close surveillance by the Russian FSB, that country’s domestic spy network, out of fear in Moscow that WikiLeaks is prepared to release damaging personal information about Kremlin leaders.
“We may not have been able to stop WikiLeaks so far, and it’s been frustrating,” a U.S. law-enforcement official tells The Daily Beast. “The Russians play by different rules.” He said that if WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, follow through on threats to post highly embarrassing information about the Russian government and what is assumed to be massive corruption among its leaders, “the Russians will be ruthless in stopping WikiLeaks.”

Worse still; with US and Russia agreeing on a serious common threat they might conceivably use it to test a new form of potential co-operation.

It's to be hoped that the 'Insurance' file contains stuff the Russians don't want releasing and that they know it does. In any event, right now Julian Assange needs all the help he can get.