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.
...and more curioser:
Cockburn, though a lefty, is no fan of the Carbon Credits scheme. It’s no surprise the like minded wikileaks targetted the Copenhagen climate summit.
“Lone” leakers, like “lone” jihadis are often not as alone or lonely as the media portrays them to be.