I’m all for whistle blowers, and legal protection for them, but not criminally reckless ones. Assange did not redact information (names, addresses) about people in hostile regimes who were recruited by foreign agencies (eg CIA, MI6), thus enabling the secret police in those regimes to hunt down those people. He has blood on his hands. But having said that, Sweden should have first crack at him. Those rape charges should be reinstated.