We do understand and are sympathetic to the embarrassment and high-level concern and insecurity about maintaining secrecy. When someone like him gains access to large amounts of secret information and blithely shares the information widely on the Internet for any and all to see, this is anathema to the intelligence agencies, who live and die through clandestine work and maintaining their secrets as a source of power and control over world events, and their perception of security at home.
When someone disobeyed their orders by releasing classified material, and Mr. Assange quickly disseminated it to the public, this flew in the face of all of the secret keepers across the globe, so he was viewed as an enemy of the state by many nations. None are sympathetic to the whistleblower because all are potential sources of embarrassment and negative assessments if their doings were to be made public when they have manipulated other countries and their citizens in various underhanded and even illegal ways. That is what Assange wants to accomplish—to reveal the irregularities enacted, again and again, by state-controlled agencies, and even the consequences for the environment from such manipulations. This is an important aspect of what is going on and those who care deeply about the toll it is taking, may well raise this issue to get attention of the powers that be.
In the present environment, it is very difficult to get such a message across to the people in power because they are typically once removed from incoming communication for safety and security reasons, and this may well be denied them by their handlers. The important thing is to be scrupulous, ethical, and moral in all one does. That will hold you in good stead, except in the most unusual of circumstances. We see the contributions of Assange as being a positive in betterment of humanity, even though technically he was flirting with criminal charges in the nature of some communications. Those are the allegations here, not simply divulging the information, which puts him in the same category as the news media who frequently publish top secret information that comes their way. And this is simply taken in stride as more leaks done by someone illegally, but it is not the fault of the media what becomes of it—it is not their responsibility or charter to maintain privacy for a third party, even if it is their own government. So there is a peculiar mix of ethics in play here but, in a general sense, the divine path is the path of truth and openness, so lawbreaking can be done in service to a higher truth, and a greater need, and social good. These things must be evaluated on an individual basis to fully ascertain their impact and the mix of positives and negatives that result from every active step people take to change things.
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