The U.S. government may be telling the truth– Bradley Manning, who disclosed, among other things, classified video of the U.S. military murdering  unarmed civilians, and two reporters from Reuters, in Baghdad, is a traitor, a frustrated homosexual from a broken family engaged in a prolonged hissy fit; that Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks, is a deranged enabler of world terrorism, a rapist and dangerous fugitive— but this 2010 TEDtalk is worth watching before you make up your mind– if you are disposed to have any opinion at all about such matters:

http://www.ted.com/talks/julian_assange_why_the_world_needs_wikileaks.html

Asked to state his core values, Assange says “capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.”  

These days he lives under 24 hour surveillance in the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where he was given political sanctuary.