Julian Assange

Scotland Yard has announced that it has the appropriate papers to enable them to hold Julian Assange of  Wikileaks and bring extradition proceedings against him at the request of the Swedes. If the form of extradition proceedings follow the old format  a case to answer will have to be proved before Assange can be extradited. During the process the wikileaks will presumably continue to appear as they will no doubt afterwards, whether Assange is extradited or not, as it seems there is no way in which these leaks can be stopped. It appears the leaks have caused real upset amongst a number of those named in them and that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton is having her work cut out apologising to foreign dignitaries. One wonders why these leaks have been made. Money, revenge or a hatred of the USA must surely come into it somewhere and possibly all of them for one or more of the 'leakers'. I find it difficult to believe that anyone could think they were being altruistic in making the leaks. Why for a start do the public need to know what is being revealed? I for one feel somewhat guilty reading the leaks - it feels like prying into someone else's diary one has accidentally picked up and finding out all sorts of things that are interesting but that one really shouldn't know. We know, because we were told so as children, that eavesdroppers only hear bad things about themselves. In our case that we are 'paranoid' about the special relationship.