The one who gave the actual information to Assange that pissed off the US gov. , has been released from Prison. Assange didn't hack it, it was provided to him, it was just presented on his site.
The former Army analyst had been jailed last year for refusing to testify before a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks and Julian Assange.
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Snowden didn't tell any one, any thing, someone with half a brain didn't already know. The Guberment spying on people should not be surprise. Any thing transmitted over an electric device is ripe for hacking. Looking back pre internet, Why do you think the mail service is a Federal entity... so they could ready your mail. Hacked phone lines brought down the Mob. Come on... The whole communications industry is controlled by a small group of people. Your phones(microphones and cameras), Emails, Internet activity are all easily monitored. Don't be that naive. Believe you ever had privacy is what is ridiculous. Completely unrealistic expectation.
What Snowden did do is run off with a bunch of intel on USA world wide security apparatus, he ran to Russia with this information. That network provides this country with information to keep us in the know as much as possible. In an attempt to keep this country ahead of the game.