Will WikiLeaks unravel the American 'secret government'?

[Peter Lemkin]

Bail WAS granted with the prior 'conditions' as one would expect for someone being examined for extradition on murder charges.

Batting for Assange here, and assuming the US is indeed preparing legally arguable grounds for an extradition request, here is how I see his options:

It's a toss up whether such a request would have a better prospect of success from the UK or Sweden. Given the history of the past 100 years or so, my guess is Sweden might be a better bet for Assange. I may be wrong about that but... it's a potentially crunch judgement for him.

For sure the only chance he has of NOT having to answer such a request from either Sweden or the UK is to have the putative Swedish charges dealt with so that he can move to somewhere less in awe of Uncle Sam.

I just have this nagging suspicion that there are things in play that are being kept well hidden. In particular the US/UK SIS's doing their damndest to scupper the prospective decrypting of the "Insurance File". I have no idea how he has primed that prospective bombshell but, if he has been daft enough to keep the key entirely to himself, then they have every prospect of scuppering it so long as he is under their control. The contents of that file are clearly worth mega-bucks right now - and just who does he/can he trust with mega-bucks - $64,000 question that (though inflation means it really ought to be re calibrated by a factor of a thousand or so). If the NSA get a hold of the key first then lots of new options open up for them and my guess is they are throwing everything they've got at it - with this legal charade just an itsy bit of their 'everything'

Looks like the USA is trying to checkmate him wherever he goes. If they crack the insurance file and if it contains something hot [they certainly have a spy or three in Wikileaks gang too by now and always did in their media allies] they could charge him with espionage. As mentioned elsewhere, they are not trying to 'break' Manning and telling him they won't execute him IF and ONLY IF he says that Assange was a co-conspirator in the theft of the secret information......and with that they'd execute Assange on espionage charges after a monkey trial. I also see danger for all the other similar sites, like Cryptome et al. The internet repression ain't a comin' - its here now.....they just going to keep tightening the thumb-screws.