Assange Charged in U.S. With Hack Conspiracy Tied to Manning
Posted on AllSides April 11th, 2019
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The U.S. accused WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange of taking part in a computer-hacking conspiracy related to the disclosure of diplomatic cables extracted by former U.S. Army analyst Chelsea Manning.
In a March 2018 indictment unsealed on Thursday just hours after Assange’s arrest in London, the U.S. accused Assange of assisted Manning in “hacking a password stored on United States Department of Defense computers,” according to the indictment. Assange’s anti-secrecy organization published the cables starting in 2010.
Assange’s arrest came after Ecuador expelled him from its embassy there. The 47-year-old has...
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