Assange's internet connection was reportedly cut by Ecuador, the embassy he is currently enjoying amnesty in. There is no doubt multiple governments would like to silence him. We don't know the full story yet.
Wikileaks reportedly has a doomsday machine to release a cache of uncensored files on BP, Gitmo, etc. His cryptic tweets the other day are reportedly a dead man's trigger to start the doomsday process..
He does not appear to be dead yet (as initially reported), but if he triggers a total data dump, he has no more leverage to trade..
I find it hard to accept his self-appointed moral authority, after he jumped bail and requested asylum to avoid extradition to face sexual assault charges in Sweden. Innocent until proved guilty but not behaving like an innocent man (perhaps a paranoid man). He trades in purloined confidential information. Revealing other people's confidential immorality does not clean your slate and is criminal behavior itself.
Interesting times but interesting for different reasons. It seems like there are too many foreign cooks stirring our domestic election pot, while these may just be modern conspiracy theories.
JR