Bill Keller ends his sto­ry in the end in The New York Times Magazine as, ​“If Assange were an under­stat­ed pro­fes­so­r­i­al type rather than a char­ac­ter from a miss­ing Stieg Larsson nov­el, and if WikiLeaks were not suf­fused with such glib antipa­thy toward the US, would the reac­tion to the leaks be quite so ferocious?”

Good ques­tion. Who’s respon­si­ble? Half an arti­cle before, Keller says, ​“I came to think of Julian Assange as a char­ac­ter from a Stieg Larsson movie.