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He may be on the short list for Time magazine's "person of the year," but many Americans consider Julian Assange to be a criminal and a terrorist. Here, the WikiLeaks founder arrives for a news conference at the Geneva Press Club on Nov. 4.
WikiLeaks was forced to switch some of its servers after Amazon stopped hosting the site. This photo shows the Internet operator Bahnhof in Stockholm, which is hosting some of WikiLeaks' servers.
Last week, US Attorney General Eric Holder officially confirmed that the US Justice Department could invoke the Espionage Act of 1917 to take legal action against the WikiLeaks staff.
The publication of the diplomatic cables is Assange's biggest leak by far -- and one that gives even him food for thought. "The effects are at such a scale, it eclipses our ability to survey them," he said.
