WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrested after Ecuador withdraws asylum
Posted on AllSides April 11th, 2019
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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged Thursday with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for aiding Chelsea Manning in the cracking of a password to a classified U.S. government computer in 2010, the U.S. Justice Department announced hours after Assange's arrest in London.
Assange is accused of engaging in a conspiracy with Manning, the former U.S. Army officer, in breaking a password stored on a U.S. Defense Department computer connected to a U.S. government computer network for classified documents and communications, the Justice Department said. Manning later transmitted a trove of...