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Mark Stephens, lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, back left, delivers a statement to the media outside the High Court in London, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Mr. Assange will be freed on bail and sent to stay at a British country mansion, a judge ruled Thursday, rejecting prosecutors' attempts to keep Mr. Assange in prison as he fights extradition to Sweden. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
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Mark Stephens, lawyer for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, center, delivers a statement to the media outside the High Court in London, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. Mr. Assange will be freed on bail and sent to stay at a British country mansion, a judge ruled Thursday, rejecting prosecutors' attempts to keep him in prison as he fights extradition to Sweden. (AP Photo/Peter Macdiarmid, pool)
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Shot through tinted window, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange reacts from inside a prison van as he arrives at the High Court in London for his bail appeal hearing, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
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Unemployed workers fill out online resumes at the Maricopa County Workforce Connections job fair on Tuesday, Nov. 23, 2010, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is screened from public view as he arrives at the High Court in London on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010, where a judge freed Mr. Assange on bail. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SPILL SALVO: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announces a lawsuit against BP PLC on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses the company of failing to take proper safety precautions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS SPILL SALVO: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. announces a lawsuit against BP PLC on Wednesday. The Justice Department accuses the company of failing to take proper safety precautions.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS Washington Police Chief Cathy Lanier is joined Tuesday by ICE Special Agent John Torres (left) and U.S. Attorney Ronald C. Machen Jr. in announcing that a Mexican cartel's plan to sell large quantities of crystal methamphetamine in the District ended with a major drug seizure and nine indictments.
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The Washington Nationals newest outfielder Jason Werth holds his new baseball jersey as he stands with Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo during a news conference at Nationals Park in Washington, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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People hold posters supporting Mikhail Khodorkovsky and his co-defendant Platon Lebedev outside a court in Moscow, Russia, Wednesday, Dec. 15, 2010. A judge on Wednesday postponed delivering the long-awaited verdict in the second trial of jailed oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky, a case that has helped to define Russia under Vladimir Putin.(AP Photo/Mikhail Metzel)
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In this Jan 7, 2008, photo, Kenyan politician William Ruto, during a meeting in Narobi, Kenya. The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has asked judges to charge six Kenyans, including the country's deputy prime minister, with crimes against humanity including murder, persecution and rape committed during post election violence in 2007-2008. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)
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Virginia Attorney General Kenneth T. Cuccinelli II has assumed a high profile in leading a legal challenge of the constitutionality of President Obama's health care law. (Associated Press)
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A supporter of Julian P. Assange demonstrates outside the courthouse in London where the WikiLeaks founder appeared for a bail hearing Tuesday. (Associated Press)
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Firefighters investigate the scene of an early-morning, two-alarm fire in Baltimore on Tuesday. Three children were among the six people killed as flames engulfed their row house. (Baltimore Sun via Associated Press)
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Six people are dead after an early-morning two-alarm fire in the 2300 block of Homewood Avenue in Baltimore on Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. (AP Photo/Baltimore Sun, Kim Hairston)
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Cartoonist Jonathan Shapiro, who signs his work as 'Zapiro', poses for a photo next to a local newspaper at his office in Cape Town, South Africa, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 2010. South Africa's president has filed a $700,000 defamation suit over a cartoon depicting him with his pants undone, preparing to rape a blindfolded, female figure symbolizing justice, a lawyer said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Schalk van Zuydam)
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The Supreme Court's newest member, Justice Elena Kagan, is recusing herself from cases she handled as solicitor general. (Associated Press)
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Rapper Ja Rule leaves court in New York, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. He pleaded guilty to attempted criminal possession of a weapon stemming from a July 2007 stop of his luxury sports car. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)
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Supporters of WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange, hold posters with his photo during a protest in front of the British Embassy in Madrid, Spain, Saturday, Dec. 11, 2010. WikiLeaks has been under intense pressure since it began publishing thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic cables, who is now in a British jail fighting extradition to Sweden on alleged sex crime charges.(AP Photo )
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A police officer looks on as a car is removed from outside the house which was searched by British police in Luton, England, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. A Swedish prosecutor says police are "98 percent" certain the Stockholm suicide bomber is 28-year-old Taimour Abdulwahab who is a Swedish citizen but also lived several years in Britain. Prosecutor Tomas Lindstrand Monday said Abdulwahab has his roots in the Middle East and has been a Swedish citizen since 1992. Lindstrand said Abdulwahab was also the registered owner of the car that exploded in Stockholm shortly before the suicide blast Saturday. (AP Photo/Akira Suemori)
