What should Julian Assange be charged with?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

It is. Our constitution is pretty clear that what Mr Assange is doing counts as Freedom of Speech. The crime is commited  by the people who leak the information to him.

Which is also true under US law. See the publishing of the Pentagon Papers or Bob Novak exposing Valerie Plame. Neither the NY Times or Novak broke any laws.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

He's never done anything with the intent to harm the US. He hasn't harmed anyone who didn't deserve it so I don't get why people whine about him.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

The Israeli government and many of its agents have stolen and misused far more important information far more frequently.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I'm not sure Assange is a criminal, but why people would consider this admirable is beyond me. It's basically just f***cking with the system for its own sake. There's always going to be a distinction between public and private diplomacy, and if the risk of leaks increases, staff will just go even more off the record and phone each other rather than writing things down, and things will become even less accountable.

The phrase "real-life troll" is overused, but Assange is basically a paradigm case.

This sort of stuff wasn't like Wikileaks was started though.