Thanks Piasa.
I didn’t know that.
Apparently Alexander Cockburn's lefty rag "Counterpunch," on September 14 2010, came up with a new spin / story to downplay Assange's problems : one of Assange's accusers had connections to Cuban exiles, according to counterpunch. In other words the claim is the CIA is behind the persecution of their boy.
VIPS being a front of Counterpunch ... and VIPS members being part of Ellsberg's "Truth-Telling Project" to encourage government employees and soldiers at all levels to leak classified information just makes me go "hmmm" when it is suggested Mr. Manning is just a "lone" leaker. Seems there is a lot of aiding and abetting going on.