NEW YORK ― On the same day as Julian Assange’s arrest on a single conspiracy charge from U.S. prosecutors, former Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton said the WikiLeaks co-founder must now face the consequences of his past actions. “The bottom line is he has to answer for what he has done ― at least as it’s been charged,” Clinton said. British police arrested Assange on Thursday at the Ecuadorian Embassy in London, where had spent the past seven years to avoid capture. In the lead-up to the 2016 presidential campaign, WikiLeaks disseminated hacked materials from the Democratic National Committee that damaged the Clinton campaign. Assange’s conspiracy charge is on the grounds that he and former military intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning conspired to steal military secrets from the U.S. government.

Source: Huffington Post April 12, 2019 03:45 UTC