jawbone,
What Daniel said or didn't about Assange doesn't matter, what he did does.
Someone on the NPR (Abrams?) talked facts and contrasted competent, editorial, limited release of Ellsberg with "release everything (except anything to do with me)" approach of Assange.

I bet Ellsberg is glad the stature of limitations has run out on his release of TOP SECRET material (not all of which was based on his own, personal knowledge, but also that of other reports and analysts). The cables are NOT top secret.

But, let Ellsberg speak for himself, as he has said he thinks WikiLeaks has done what he would do in today's situation.

~~~Ellsberg: “EVERY attack now made on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange was made against me and the release of the Pentagon Papers at the time.”~~~

http://www.ellsberg.net/archive/public-accuracy-press-release

I think Assange should be arrested for possession of stolen property. He fully knows he's receiving information from other than its rightful owner.

You know, I didn't feel like chanting USA until listening to this non-US citizen slandering the US in every possible way. Julian Assange is not a journalist and his anti-US bias is well known by his own admission. The dumping of massive amounts of State Department and other secret US documents is not the same as Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, which was targeted and based on his own knowledge. We have a right to know but countries need to operate as necessary to preserve their security. We don't know the long term fallout of this terrorist act against the USA.

"Secrecy and deception has led to very dangerous and continuous wars" People are amusing. The same crowd who suffered and suffered when poor Valerie Plame (doesn't seem poor to me only to them-poverty is relative), now preach an absolute disclosure ... at any REAL cost to individuals, societies and the world.

jawbone,
I am repeating slowly.
Elsberg, was responsible and he didn't release all the documents he had.

ASK ABOUT SEX ABUSE!

jawbone,
And the reason I should be interested in the oldest Institute of Propaganda ... is?

Ellsberg released TOP SECRET material-- the cables are that highly classified.

I think Julian is doing the entire world a service.
Secrecy and deception has led to very dangerous and continuous wars.
He is revealing what we should face. The US is an imperial power with huge force and untenable aggression against other nations. We ought to be ashamed of the country not of Julian's courage to reveal all this.

The guy is a lying liar of course.
Daniel Elsberg, for example, didn't release diplomatic documents.
The first caller was correct.

Link for the BBC tidbit below -- lots more to read in continually updated news.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12307698

I have a question: By any chance did Julia Assange leak Osama's whereabouts to get out of hot water with the U.S.?

I'm assuming the lawyer is being kept from being forced to testify about the cables.

Also, is this lawyer acting for Assange on the rape extradition aspect? That is what i think Assange has a lawyer for.

Or, is this guy a lawyer for WikiLeaks itself?

I thought it was for the rape charge issues and just for Assange.

just fyi on the bbc website...Abbottabad was a name to watch before this...

1320: Indonesia says its most wanted terrorist suspect was in Pakistan to meet Osama Bin Laden when he was arrested there early this year. Umar Patek was arrested in January in Abbottabad, the garrison town where Bin Laden was killed by US forces this week, AP news agency reports.

So Assange doesn't share his cables with his lawyers. I guess he has a concern for protecting his privacy.