Assange embarrassed the U.S. with revealing the truth by publishing U.S. communications. G.W.Bush failed to continue with his pledged effort to get Ossama, started a war killing over 5000 Americans and thousands of Iraqi, allowing Al Qaida freedom to operate where they could not before, condoned torture, and violated his oath as president to uphold the Constitution of the United States with illegal wiretaps, imprisonments, and other violations of the 4th, 5th, and 6th amendments. Now we know he violated the Constitution and his oath, and is a true coward.

Since the charges against Assange are a much delayed accusation for consensual sex where the complaint was failure to use a condom on the second time, which by a quirk in Swedish law is called rape in the law, and initially passed over by prosecution, I question what benefits the woman has received from the US, just as Linda Tripp got an expensive makeover by Republican backers.

Assange's actions in aiding Russia's attack on the U.S., while understandable as revenge, reveals a smallness and immaturity at least as great as that of those attacking him.