“Go to some of the Ron Paul and Tea Party message boards and they like this Assange guy because they think he’s exposing corruption of the federal government.”
I think that there is some truth to that view. However, he’s also exposing a lot of sensitive info that very well may get people - a LOT of people - killed, up to and including lighting off some real instabilities that could turn into real wars and get real US servicemembers killed. That trumps the first part IMHO. By a lot.
Those Ron Paul/Tea party types are, as usual, in tune with the Left, especially the leftist government of Ecuador which has just offered Assange asylum... if he can get there from his “hiding place.”