Mr. Assange has not made it clear why the site needs $2.4M USD a month, or $31.2M USD a year to stay in business. In fact Wikileaks never publishes complete disclosures of who its funders are or what it does with the money. As CNN puts it, "Where that money is going, or what it's paying for, is unclear."

Jonathan Zittrain, an internet law and computer science professor at Harvard University, tells CNN in an interview, "WikiLeaks could well be a flash in the pan. It's not exactly a site with an apparent solid business plan or stable group of founders."