Obama as target

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange could have received help from anti-US forces with the website's most recent publishing of incendiary documents, the liberal daily La Stampa speculates: "Do we not, in the name of press freedom, have the right to demand the same transparency for Assange's own operations which he expects from others? ... The predicament the US government is now facing will make the Wikileaks founder very popular among US President Barack Obama's many enemies. And what if Assange were not only welcomed, but also supported by those enemies? ... We know that the US's power has been severely weakened and that it is the focus of many attacks. We know that Obama is being fought by many powerful forces within his own country. Is it really so absurd to speculate that Wikileaks either willingly or unwillingly has become an instrument of these tensions?

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