Well... I'll probably be met with castigation here, but I think Assange is part of the play. When Wikileaks "leaked" the first time, I knew about every single thing People were talking about. All the things had been posted - some of them years before - on AboveTopSecret dot com, where I was a silver contributor at the time (not knowing then that it was a CIA-run site).
How can You leak something that is already out?
Also... He grew up in an MKUltra cult called "The Family..."