DOJ accuses Assange of violating Espionage Act

DOJ had previously only indicted Assange on a single count of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion. Thursday’s revelation of the

Assange’s legal case took off in April after Ecuador revoked its seven-year asylum, forcing him out of the embassy in London and paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information. Justice Department officials said they could not comment on how this might affect Assange’s extradition from the U.K. to the U.S.

By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Zach Terwilliger, the assistant U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, emphasized that the government was “not charging Assange for passively obtaining classified information.” Rather, he is being prosecuted for publishing “a narrow set of classified documents in which Assange also published the names of innocent people who risked their safety” to help the United States.

Assamge is a Russian bot.

Ok now this is pushing the line of our 1st Amendment

It shouldn’t be a war crime to expose war crimes. The people that should be in jail are: Clinton Obama Biden Bush Cheney Clinton

roripierpont1 So if London concedes and sends him to us on these charges, the charges are applicable until successfully challenged towards any press medium that publishes secret docs. Or if London balks, this guy doesn’t come here and walks away free from his role in 2016/Russian interference.

Why liberals and democrats are not supporting this filthy guy. Trump's Justice Department just hit Julian Assange with Espionge Act? What happened to Democrats? Why are they not defending enemy of POTUS?

He’s not in it for the freedom of the press. You don’t get to hack into secure systems and escape consequences just by virtue of dumping the stolen documents into the public domain.

But We Love Wikileaks!! Don’t we?

He is not a journalist.

The legal equivalent of jay-walking as far as a defense case. lmao

Assange isn't a journalist. He's a hacker. He didn't write anything or edit anything. He served as a conduit for Russian hackers. That's not journalism. That's Espionage.

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