@Blickers,
The firing squad? Don't you think that's a bit extreme, rhetoric like that is why Assange is stuck in the embassy.
Why are you blaming Wikileaks for this, they publish what they've been given? Is Russia behind the hack, are they trying to influence the election, is the stuff they've released to be trusted? Yes, yes and no.
The situation with Assange is completely separate from this, first I doubt very much that he's at all involved in the day to day running of Wikileaks.
Wikileaks published documents that showed American soldiers were guilty of war crimes. Instead of acting on this and punishing the perpetrators America did its best to stifle whistleblowers. The treatment of Manning and Snowden is like that dished out by dictatorships terrified of the truth coming out.
Assange should stand trial in Sweden, but he should be given cast iron assurances that once the legal process is finished and any sentence served he should be allowed to return home to his native Australia and not face an American kangaroo court.