Hear hear. My bet on the reason for the status ping ponging is the site was auto flagged through some automated scanning, someone at Google contacted wikileaks

Hear hear. My bet on the reason for the status ping ponging is the site was auto flagged through some automated scanning, someone at Google contacted wikileaks (maybe after some press was seen!), wikileaks started cleaning up their shit and the Goog kept re-scanning, probably coordinated on a fascinating email chain.