I suspect they threatened to do harm to Assange, or someone he cares about, but is not nearly so hard to find, if he didn't come in. I've also heard rumors, among the paranoid, that the whole thing is a preamble for some anti-internet freedom campaign, and it maybe this is just part of that.
I was kinda with Wikileaks on some of this... Although I kinda draw the line at the "critical US installations" leak... Like nearly everything else Wikileaks has put out, it wasn't really a secret (nothing we didn't already know, nor, in this case, anything anyone was interested in couldn't already readily get ahold of), but there's no moral upside to a release like that. Probably not doing any real harm, but it seems designed to scare the paranoid and be sensationalist. It's one thing to leak "secrets" to expose incompetence, maliciousness, or hypocrisy - but that particular "leak" seemed to be put up just to piss folks off. Granted, anyone can post to Wikileaks, so I'm not sure if Assange himself had anything to do with it.
Of course, the best part of this whole thing, is now Torrents are part of Homeland Security's concerns.
I suspect the days where "www" stands for "wild-wild-west" are numbered - but I have a feeling the political stuff will get clamped down on well before all the illegal transactions and scams are, so long as someone like Meg Whitman can still make money off them.
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"We got into Iraq under false pretenses? We are targeting civilians and reporters we don't like? We're allowing torture in our off-shore prisons? Embassies double as headquarters for spy agencies? With breaking stories like these, I wonder if 'wikileaks.org' has a redirect from 'captainobvious.com'" - Lorely's Logistics
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