Truthdig.com: Totalitarian systems disempower an unsuspecting population by gradually making legal what was once illegal. They incrementally corrupt and distort law to exclusively serve the goals of the inner sanctums of power and strip protection from the citizen. Law soon becomes the primary tool to advance the crimes of the elite and punish those who tell the truth. The state saturates the airwaves with official propaganda to replace news. Fear, and finally terror, creates an intellectual and moral void.
"if your father ‘loses’ we think it is much more interesting if he DOES NOT conceed"
It looks like WikiLeaks become the recent target of hacking group called OurMine.
Charges could include conspiracy, theft of government property, or violating the Espionage Act, according to The Washington Post.