pie eating, and cola swigging" patriots? Here is a useful time line of the Assange case. . http://www.nnn.se/nordic/assange/suspici\\... . It also gives some details on how the trial of those accused of sex crimes is handled. The trial is held behind closed doors, with a judge and three lay persons. The lay persons are appointed by political parties and are often members of the party that appoints them. The secrecy means that the public is not made aware of any weaknesses in the case. Any appeal is also held behind closed doors. Scary -- guilty until found guilty by the sound of it. I note with interest a couple of commentators suggest that WikiLeaks may be a CIA front or 'psy-op' operation. . I know little about the WikiLeaks organisational structure, my own confidence is in the cryptographer and brilliant researcher, Julian Assange. Julian is somewhat anonymous with a 'previous' resembling 'shades of grey' and with little insight one can gain by reading his few past publications. . As a cryptographer myself I do know Julian Assange expressed an interest in variants of NSA's Koken loop crypto-algorithm. I hoped to allure him into trying to break a few recorded Delta-modulated and encrypted communications from the morning of September 11th 2001. This led to my own research into Julian which directed me to his acquaintance and stimulus, George Soros. George funded some research into the catastrophe at the World Trade Center believing the official account was a collusion in plan. George