The Justice Department on Thursday charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010, rejecting his claim that he is a journalist. But it is not yet clear whether the British government will honour that request, and the new charges could complicate it. WikiLeaks blasted the charges, saying the threatened reporters broadly. But she was sent back to jail earlier this year for refusing to cooperate with the investigation into Assange. The Justice Department said that in 2009, before Manning acted, WikiLeaks publicly solicited specific classified materials involving the US wars in Afghanistan and Iraq so that it could publish the materials.

Source: Punch May 24, 2019 10:15 UTC