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Basically, I like him because his work led to more scoops with larger impacts than any other journalist in recent history.

he released all the cables unredacted endangering countless lives around the world

It's not like he singlehandedly and purposefully did that. In fact, he tried very hard to do the opposite. They were released because one of the encrypted files he sent a journalist was still floating around somewhere when that journalist published the key Assange gave him in a book.

I think the backers made a mistake backing him. I think him taking flight shows what kind of person he really is. By going to the Ecuador embassy he has traded a trial in Sweden for a comfy prison in London leaving backers thousands of pounds out of pocket.

When you back someone who (right or wrong) thinks his prosecution is an international conspiracy, you kind of expect that things aren't going to go by the book. If they didn't anticipate this, they're morons. But I think they did anticipate it, I haven’t seen anyone complaining.