 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. 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.