In an indictment unsealed hours later, Assange was accused of conspiring in 2010 with Chelsea Manning, a U.S. Army intelligence analyst then known as Bradley Manning, and other conspirators to publish secret military and diplomatic documents that Manning had collected. of computer related offences.”The U.S. indictment unsealed Thursday accuses Assange of agreeing to help Manning break a password to the Defense Department’s computer network in 2010. Even before the password cracking, though, Manning had given WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified records, prosecutors alleged. Robinson confirmed that the U.S. indictment was issued in December 2017 on a charge of conspiracy with Chelsea Manning dating to 2010. #ProtectJulian pic.twitter.com/dVBf1EcMa5 — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) April 11, 2019WikiLeaks confirmed Assange’s arrested and used the occasion as a fundraising opportunity on Twitter.

Source: National Post April 11, 2019 10:08 UTC