U.S. charges WikiLeaks founder Assange with conspiracy
WASHINGTON - U.S. prosecutors announced charges on Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, accusing him of conspiring with former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to a government computer as part of one of the largest compromises of classified information in U.S. history.
Assange’s indictment arose from a long-running criminal investigation dating back to the administration of former President Barack Obama. It was triggered in part by the publication by WikiLeaks in 2010 of hundreds of thousands of U.S. military reports about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq and American diplomatic communications.
Manning was jailed on March 8 after being held in contempt by a judge in Virginia for refusing to testify before a federal grand jury in what is widely believed to be related to the Assange investigation. The Justice Department said Manning and Assange engaged in real-time discussions concerning Manning’s transmission of classified records to Assange in which Assange encouraged Manning to provide more information.
But Trump praised the group during the 2016 presidential race. At a campaign rally shortly before the November 2016 U.S. election, Trump said “I love WikiLeaks” after it released the hacked Democratic emails that harmed Clinton’s candidacy.
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