Wikileaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday asked Ecuador for asylum. Police in London said he will be arrested for violating the terms of his bail, but for the moment he’s protected at the country’s embassy in London. Assange said he ultimately fears eventual extradition to the United States and a politically motivated trial.
Yesterday, a military judge found Private Bradley Manning not guilty of “aiding the enemy” for releasing hundreds of thousands classified military documents to WikiLeaks. Amidst the mix of rumblings and applause that followed the verdict were the echoes of another case. Four decades ago the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret history of the […]