Regardless of your thoughts on Julian Assange's personal behavior, this is extremely frightening to me. Sure, there have been cases in the past when the U.S. has cracked down on free speech in the name of "national security secrets" when it was really about keeping downright evil things from the public eye, but this one goes beyond the pale. It seems like the kind of indictment you'd see from a banana republic or an autocracy.
The biggest failure in this whole debacle is Europe's. The evidence was that the US was massively spying on us, and not one nation (France, Germany, Netherlands) offered him amnesty.
Journalists around the world pay attention: The US government has control over journalism and that's the way they intend to keep it.