Newsdeck: U.S. Says Assange Violated Espionage Act in Leaking Secrets By Bloomberg
The indictment against Assange, who until recently was holed up in Ecuador’s embassy in London, says the 47-year-old was complicit with former Army intelligence officer Chelsea Manning in “unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to national defense.”
WikiLeaks fired back in a tweet, saying: “This is madness. It is the end of national security journalism and the first amendment.” Assange has in the past claimed he is being persecuted for being a journalist, but the indictment on Thursday says he actively conspired with Manning to obtain the classified documents, many of which were labeled “secret.”“Assange is charged for his complicity in illegal acts,” Zachary Terwilliger, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia, told reporters. “Assange is not charged simply because he is a publisher.
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