http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/blog/2010/dec/07/wikileaks-us-embassy-cables-live-updates11.06am: The Australian has issued a sneak preview of Assange's op-ed piece due later today:
Mr Assange begins by saying: "In 1958, a young Rupert Murdoch, then owner and editor of Adelaide's the News, wrote: 'In the race between secrecy and truth, it seems inevitable that truth will always win.'"
It goes on to say a few more things about freedom of speech; the "dark days" of corrupt government in Queensland (where Assange was raised); the Fitzgerald inquiry; and it says much about his upbringing in a country town, "where people spoke their minds bluntly".
It says that Australian politicians are chanting a "provably false chorus" with the US State Department of "You'll risk lives! You'll endanger troops!" by releasing information, and "then they say there is nothing of importance in what Wikileaks publishes. It can't be both."
11.02am: More details are emerging about Assange's meeting with the police. He was accompanied by both his British lawyers, Mark Stephens and Jennifer Robinson. The plans for the meeting continued to "chop and change" to prevent the event becoming a media circus, according to sources.
Assange will release a video statement later today. WikiLeaks had threatened to issue an encryption code that would release all of the remaining cables, if Assange was arrested.
But our sources say there are no current plans to do that.
ALSO:
Reuters: FLASH: WikiLeaks spokesman says arrest of Assange does not change plans for release of more documents
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