"Just by itself, the type of prolonged solitary confinement to which Manning has been subjected for many months is widely viewed around the world as highly injurious, inhumane, punitive, and arguably even a form of torture."

"Taken at its word, the Espionage Act makes felons of us all." My goodness. Whoever has info and communicates it violates that (WWI-era) law: not just Wikileaks, but other news orgs, tweeters, even casual conversation. Just plain broken.

"[W]e are aware of no case in which a publisher of information obtained through unauthorized disclosure by a government employee has been prosecuted for publishing it." there. that's all there is to say.

"You know, it IS POSSIBLE that Julian Assange DID sexually assault a woman in Sweden AND that the charges are trumped up in a way and dealt with in a certain way because of his work with WikiLeaks." - more on consent, rumors and icky people.

"I’m not particularly interested in debating What Assange Did or Whether Assange Is A Rapist" - instead, some thoughts about consent, etc.

"The greatest threat we face right now from Wikileaks is not the information it has spilled and may spill in the future, but the reactionary response to it that’s building in the United States that promises to repudiate the rule of law and our free speech traditions, if left unchecked."

"Despite the arguments that Amazon, PayPal, and others make about the illegality of the leaked documents, it's not clear that Wikileaks has broken any law."