Assange is really unlikely to be working for Russia, at least not knowingly. He's been around since the late 80s and his politics don't differ over-much from a lot of hackers. He's a bit too credulous with respect to conspiracy theories, his graph-theoretic justification for Wikileaks is probably overly-simplistic and by his own admission his years locked up in an embassy hasn't been good for his mental health, but Occam's razor says he's exactly what he looks like, a eccentric who's trying to do good with mixed success. That doesn't preclude Russia using him, and he's said he doesn't care what the source of the documents he publishes is, but it's unlikely Wikileaks as an organization or Assange as an individual are actually working for Russia. Also the Left has had an "anti-establishment distrust of Western intel" since the red scares, when it was targeting them, at least.Let's skip ahead to "Wikileaks." BRILLIANT. Ingratiate the Left into this anti-establishment distrust of Western intel.