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Sure - but we're talking Julian Assange. To make an enemy of an entire three-letter bureau requires activism above and beyond the petty stuff that gets abused by spooks - after all, coordination generates paperwork and paperwork ends up in congressional hearings. It is a political problem, but then, it has been since the days of Herb Yeardley.
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Further, Assange wanted the TLAs coming after him, thinking it would keep wikileaks and other people involved in the project safer if the heat was focused on him personally. It's unclear if he accomplished anything in doing so, Jacob Appelbaum had to move to Germany after all and he was just doing PR, but he knew what he was doing.