Closing arguments in court marshall, as Wikileaks founder launches political party

Julian Assange, from Wikileaks, at the SKUP conference for investigative journalism, Norway, March 2010 (see http://www.skup.no/Info_in_Englishhttp://www.skup.no/Konferansen_2010/Programmet) (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange has launched a new political party of the same name (no, not Julian), and has announced his candidacy for an Australian Senate seat.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/26/world/asia/wikileaks-founder-assange-to-run-for-australian-senate.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&smid=tw-nytimes&_r=0

Meanwhile, Private Bradley Mannings court marshall is nearing the closing arguments stage.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/bradley-mannings-court-martial-for-leaking-us-secrets-to-wikileaks-nears-closing-arguments/2013/07/25/6965cc0e-f504-11e2-81fa-8e83b3864c36_story.html

Manning is the meathead who gave hundreds of thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks in 2009-10.

Likely outcomes:  Assange gains fame and fortune, while Manning does hard time.  It has ever been so.

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