When Assange was looking for board members, he contacted StevenAftergood, who runs an e-mail newsletter for the Federation of American Scientists, and who publishes sensitive documents.
As the programme continues to expand, secrecy experts like StevenAftergood believe it will become even more important for Americans to know about it so they can debate its merits.
The sad thing about this is, As StevenAftergood of the Project on Government Secrecy writes, there has never been anything like an impenetrable wall between information deemed secret and the public.