A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a poster reading "I'm Julian"
A protester wearing a Guy Fawkes mask holds a poster reading "I'm Julian" as he demonstrates outside the Ecuadorian embassy in London on June 23, where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is seeking political asylum. If Assange ever ends up in a US courtroom, prosecutors could face an uphill struggle trying to convict him, given America's legal safeguards for publishers, analysts say.