A Critical Look At The Man Who Runs Wikileaks

Photo: Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, faces a variety of challenges after his most brazen disclosure yet: posting 391,832 secret Pentagon documents on the Iraq war. Andrew Testa for The New York Times

WikiLeaks Founder On The Run, Trailed By Notoriety -- New York Times

LONDON — Julian Assange moves like a hunted man. In a noisy Ethiopian restaurant in London’s rundown Paddington district, he pitches his voice barely above a whisper to foil the Western intelligence agencies he fears.

He demands that his dwindling number of loyalists use expensive encrypted cellphones and swaps his own as other men change shirts. He checks into hotels under false names, dyes his hair, sleeps on sofas and floors, and uses cash instead of credit cards, often borrowed from friends.

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My Comment: A surprising but comprehensive look from the New York Times at the man who is running Wikileaks. In short .... I have my doubts that he can continue at the pace that he has been working at for the past few years. I suspect that this time next year, Wikileaks will be closed down, and its founder at a lost on what happened with his 15 minutes of fame.

As for those who have assisted and/or informed for us in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, their exposure by Wikileaks will undoubtedly make their lives difficult at best, deadly at the worst.