re: #4 Killgore Trout

Wikileaks and their apologists seem to have some pretty nutty ideas. They probably thought that nobody would dare mess with them because of mass uprisings or something.

re: #5 researchok

Or, they thought they would be heralded as heroes.

Morons.

OR, they thought their natural superiority to the rest of us would shine through so brightly, no one would question them.