What law has Assange broken in the US?
Simply distributing classified information is not a crime in the US, unless you have a security clearance and have agreed not to do so.
The government would have to prosecute under the Espionage Act, and that's a pretty high threshold to meet -- especially when all of the information released so far hasn't been surprising to anyone that has been paying attention.
Whoever, for the purpose of obtaining information respecting the national defense with intent or reason to believe that the information is to be used to the injury of the United States, or to the advantage of any foreign nation...
I don't know how you prove intent, when there is the clear motive that the US's bumbling incompetence is doing grave injury to the world and the knowledge of this fact is benefitial to the welfare and security of the People.
And he has been releasing classified information for quite some time now with virtually no serious response from the liberal power structure in the US and Europe.
True it's speculation on my part but most of this iceberg must still be under water. Either there is serious dirt on one or many high level pols or its the Bank of America angle. I'm going with BOA. Consider:
http://www.infoplease.com/toptens/usbanks.html
Yeah... That number is trillions. If you think Lehman left a mark just watch if this bank comes down. Granted that is a mark-to-model asset valuation so it's true holdings are probably worth significantly less but if this happens I would want to be short everything but ammo and the VIX.
What if the info dump on the bank involves strategic correspondences with the Fed or international central banking cartel? Maybe a discussion on how hard it is to push bailouts through congress but how easy it is to achieve the same end through QE and subsequent cost-push inflation? Seems like there might suddenly be an impetus to make this guy public enemy number one.
I just can't see multinational governments concurrently and suddenly becoming upset over something that has been going on since 2006. Warrant for his arrest in Sweden, Scotland Yard looking for him in the UK, USA considering extraditing him even though they're not sure what they will charge him with, the Swiss freezing his account. Seems like a lot of immediate interest.