Wikileaks has had more scoops in its short life than The Boston Globe in 30 years

Julian Assange is just Woodward and Bernstein by another name. All these people who are supporting what the US Government is doing to him and Wikileaks need to ask themselves if they would like to have had Watergate swept under the rug. Watergate started as a bunch of dirty tricks on the campaign trail and snowballed from there." - Mafdet

Other apt comparisons might include Julian Assange to the publisher of the New York Times, who published the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war.

Daniel Ellsburg was the leaker of the Pentagon Papers, a man who acted on conscience when he xeroxed 70,000 pages at the Pentagon and turned them over to the NYT. The papers demonstrated to the American people their government was lying to them about the Vietnam war. The Pentagon papers gave the public the truth, and truth permitted the public form an informed opinion about the policy being executed in their name.

The Daniel Ellsburg equivalent today is Scooter Libby who leaked the identity covert CIA agent Valeria Plame or Pfc Bradley Manning, who has been arrested and charged with the unauthorized use and disclosure of U.S. classified information. While it may or may not be a valid defense, Bradley Manning was acting on his conscience when he leaked the information to Wikileaks as you will see in the following documentary, "WikiRebels" made by Sweden’s public service television, SVT. SVT is broadcasting this documentary chronicling the history of WikiLeaks, after having followed them for some six months.

WikiRebels by SVT

It is also available of youtube: WikiRebels - The Wikileaks Documentary [1/4] [2/4] [3/4] [4/4]