Comment Re:Anonymous releases are possible (Score 1) 333
Now that people seem to've gotten the idea of how leaking of information can work in the "information century" with almost no risk to them...
That alone is probably the biggest reason they're going to such great lengths to demonize and make an example of Julian Assange and (especially) Bradley Manning. If they can convict either for a serious enough charge, it will cause quite a few people to think twice before leaking documents via Wikileaks, or any other similar website. It's less about what they did, and more about what others might do.