Will the United States prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for espionage? Here is an interesting article analyzing the legal issues.

As the MSNBC article put it:

If the United States seeks to put on trial WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, what are the implications for freedom of speech, for protection of government secrets and for news organizations on the Internet?

Msnbc.com has convened a panel of legal specialists to explore questions raised by a prosecution.

As one of the panelists put it, “The WikiLeaks events tee up the question of defining ‘media’ in the new, Internet era like no previous case.”