Wikileaks founder Julian Assange 'buoyed by support'

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23. Now if that isn't anti-US derangement syndrome, I don't know what is

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jun/24/nick-cohen-julian-assange-paranoia?newsfeed=true

. But WikiLeaks was in effect a newspaper. From the 1970s, when the New York Times printed the Pentagon Papers, to today's accounts of secret prisons and the bugging of US citizens, the American courts "have made clear that the First Amendment protects independent third parties who publish classified information". Maybe the authorities could prosecute Assange for alleged links with hackers. I don't know – unlike Assange, I cannot see the future. But why would they bother to imprison him when he is making such a good job of discrediting himself?

So the fact that he can't even be charged is answers with an allegation that the US will not follow the rule of law in this particular case? How so? How are we going to disappear and hang Julian without trial when all eyes are on us as he's done such a great job of getting attention? Why would Sweden comply? Of course we keep our word and we follow the rule of law. The attempts by the Bush Administration to do things like that were struck down by the courts.