There's an excellent piece on the impact of WikiLeaks in The Guardian, where the writer, Clay Shirky, describes Assange as only a monocle and a Persian cat away from a Bond villain! But he has serious points to make on the balance that has to be struck between government secrets and a citizen's right to know what is being done in our name.
He also makes the point that whether or not the establishment, (in the UK, the US or Sweden) gets Assange and destroys WikiLeaks the genie is now out of the bottle. If WikiLeaks were put out of business, then another conduit would soon be found.
Assange has claimed, when the history of statecraft of the era is written, that it will be divided into pre- and post-WikiLeaks periods. Who dares say he is wrong?
Read the article here.
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