Why We Should Be Skeptical of Wikileaks  When considering
Wikileaks, we must be cognizant of the following facts, which
ought to give any sane person pause:  1. There is very little in
the way of concrete, independently verifiable fact in existence
to check Julian Assange’s version of his own past.  2. There is
even less in the way of substantiation for the myth that has
grown up around Assange; namely, his purported existence as
something of an intellectually precocious individual who
magically gained access to various corporate networks as a
teenager and came away from over thirty criminal counts for his
exploits with a small fine.  3. Assange’s existence as a sort of
forgetful yet dedicated idiosyncratic programmer, writer, and
consultant for computer security who studied mathematics at the
University of Melbourne is something that does not explain how
he managed to come into hundreds of thousands of dollars worth
of funding and support from a virtually anonymous network of
donors and foundations. It certa