Biden on wikileaks

The human gaffe machine American VP Joe Biden is at it again with remarks that Julian Assange is an "hi-tech terrorist". I haven't seen the actual Meet the Press interview as yet, but it appears that Biden agreed with the interviewers choice of words? This tells us one of two things about Biden,
a) he's incredibly naive to get suckered into using a journalist's expression, or
b) the US Govt considers him just that, and will continue to hunt him down using all the resources of the State, perhaps even replacing Osama Bin-Laden as public enemy number one!
The arguments for and against wikileaks have been done to death over the last two weeks, but I'll just repeat what I've said elsewhere, that a growing number of western democracies are increasingly looking ridiculous in their pursuit of wikileaks, with their outdated 20th century attitudes to prosecuting/persecuting their political enemies. The cringe worthy spectacle of the sycophantic comments made by the Aust PM Gillard along with government figures in Canada really do make the eyes roll in the back of your head.
But let me ask you, how different would the rhetoric of Biden and co be now if people like Gillard came out and stated categorically that we will not accept unfair persecution of the Australian citizen Assange, and we'll withdraw all co-operation on this matter until we get some assurances that talk from substantial political figures of execution or assassination do not represent government's position? The political climate might just be very different if these people actually showed LEADERSHIP!