 Welcome back to Washington Today, available as a podcast on the C-SPAN Now mobile app. That's free and wherever you find your podcasts. A story from AFP. The U.S. State Department on Wednesday renewed its allegation that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange put people at risk for revealing secrets after he was freed in a plea deal. Assange had published hundreds of thousands of confidential U.S. documents on the WikiLeaks whistleblowing website from 2010.