I don't know about you guys, but these two quotes together with the events in the life of Assange seems to paint some picture. According to the Post, officials

I don't know about you guys, but these two quotes together with the events in the life of Assange seems to paint some picture. According to the Post, officials “realized that they have what they described as a ‘New York Times problem’” – namely, that any theory used to bring charges against Assange would also result in criminal liability for the Times, The Guardian, and other papers which also published secret documents provided to WikiLeaks. USA [...] urged other nations with forces in Afghanistan [...] to consider filing criminal charges against J.A. [...] focus the legal elements of national power upon non-state actor Assange, and the human network that supports Wikileaks (from https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/assange_pressure.png https://prod01-cdn02.cdn.firstlook.org/wp-uploads/2014/02/as...) Not that this came as a surprise for people who read things outside NYT.