US prosecutors say the WikiLeaks founder encouraged and helped Chelsea Manning steal classified files before publishing them

Joe Biden said on Wednesday that he is considering a request from Australia to drop the decade-long US push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for publishing a trove of American classified documents.

  • Cosmic Cleric@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Whether Assange is one of those is debatable, but the US has a lot of weight to throw around and Wikileaks offended the government specifically. So here we are.

    Isn’t there some big nuclear submarine deal going on right now between America and Australia?