Wiki-Leaks update

With no news, or very little coming through the streams of Australian media regarding 

Julian Assange’s decision on whether to appeal to the British Supreme Court (the highest possible court of appeal) has not yet been confirmed, it is interesting to note that other revelations have been coming out.

While all this news about a possible extradition to Sweden on the alleged incidents of sexual harassment and rape, a Grand Jury in the United States (in the state of Virginia to be precise) have been looking at the evidence of Wiki-leaks and particularly Cable-gate in a bid to perhaps charge Assange with a century old Espionage Act.

I knew that that the latter part of that information was going on, but did not know that a grand jury was being used, which to be honest is surprising, considering Assange is Australian and all, that the media could perhaps cover these details in more, well, detail.

Isn’t the fact that a grand jury looking at evidences a significant aspect?

But I digress.

It has also been revealed by one of my favourite papers The Age (A Victorian Broadsheet Newspaper, by Fairfax) that the Department of Foreign Affairs (and its minister, former Prime Minister Kevin Rudd) had not responded for about a month to an allegedly urgent letter by Assange’s human rights lawyer.

Now, I am not going to bitch on the government or these departments, but it does raise interesting questions. How much should the government support Assange as a citizen despite the fact the leaks affect Australian government?

Let me know what you think.