The online whistleblower WikiLeaks has announced it has hired the trailblazing Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón to head the legal team representing the website and its founder, Julian Assange. Garzón and Assange recently met at the Ecuadorean embassy in London, where Assange has sought political asylum to avoid extradition to Sweden. Garzón is known for taking on international human rights cases, with actions including ordering the arrest of former Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet in 1998, indicting Osama bin Laden for the 9/11 attacks, and probing the abuse of U.S. prisoners at Guantánamo Bay.