WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in 2010
The WikiLeaks logo
U.S. President George W. Bush and Egyptian President Mohammed Hosni Mubarak at the White House in 2002. 'President Mubarak has a long history of advancing peace and stability in the Middle East,' Bush said.
A hanged effigy of Hosni Mubarak days before the Egyptian president was forced out of office in February 2011
Children holding a sign criticizing then Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak in February 2011, days before he was removed from office
A protest sign at a rally in Tahrir Square, Cairo, February 2011
A February 2011 protest in Cairo's Tahrir Square against the regime of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak
Australians rally in support of WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning and Julian Assange in December 2010
A Los Angeles billboard supporting WikiLeaks, March 2011
An advertisement for a panel in Brussels on diplomacy after the WikiLeaks controversy in June 2011
A December 2010 Time magazine cover
A sign supporting Bradley Manning in Quantico Virginia, where he was earlier held in solitary confinement, in August 2010
The accused source of the WikiLeaks documents, Bradley Manning
The Jay Treaty: George Washington reprimanded Alexander Hamilton for passing material to the British during negotiations in 1794
A poster for the film: The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers
Computer programmers created this 'Flag of the Sovereign State of WikiLeaks,' saying 'Julian Assange and WikiLeaks need a country of their own.'
Micah Sifry (left) and Daniel Ellsberg talk as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange looks on in a video chat in June 2010
Adm. William J. Fallon, then the commander of U.S. Central Command, meets with Yemeni President Ali Abdallah Saleh in 2007
A 1947 image of U.S. diplomat George Kennan, who espoused the U.S. policy of containment of communism
Then U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney and President Ali Abdullah Saleh of Yemen discussing the fight against terrorism, March 14, 2002.
Sana'a, the capital of Yemen