You're looking at the Big Picture; This is true.
It appears it's part and parcel of dismantling the Old World Order for the New. A Social, Economic, Institutional deconstruction and dismantling.
Any government that refused to vet a Barry Hussein 0bama and allow him access to the WH is suspect. In this case, it's a matter of credibility; IMO the government has little-to-none. This government could have stopped Assange, but didn't. Why not?
Point is...they can't. If not him this week, someone else next week.
Most people don't want to fight. They want to play. All bureaucratic power structures accumulate authority from conflict. Those conflicts are simply becoming too costly for the world to bear.