What if there is a US indictment against Assange, and the charges aren't espionage [View all]

or terrorism, but information theft?

Is anyone entitled to steal anyone else's information and publish it?

http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/02/28/stratfor-email-hints-u-s-may-have-already-indicted-wikileaks-assange/

Assange, whose legal situation is further complicated by a pending extradition to Sweden to face questioning over sex crime allegations, has long argued that WikiLeaks functions as a media organization, and should be subject to the same protections as any newspaper that publishes leaked classified documents. But the pre-trial hearing of alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning has already exposed evidence the U.S. government could use to accuse him of more active information theft: a log of instant messenger chats with Assange obtained from the Army private’s computer seems to show the Australian offering to help Manning crack a password-protected account to anonymously access classified data.