US Prosecutors Have a Sealed Indictment On Assange, Say Leaked Files

beaverdownunder writes with news from The Age that "Leaked e-mails from private U.S. intelligence agency Stratfor indicate that American prosecutors have had a sealed, secret indictment drawn up against Julian Assange as early as January, 2011." From the article: "The news that U.S. prosecutors drew up a secret indictment against Mr. Assange more than 12 months ago comes as the WikiLeaks founder awaits a British Supreme Court decision on his appeal against extradition to Sweden to be questioned in relation to sexual assault allegations. Mr. Assange, who has not been charged with any offence in Sweden, fears extradition to Stockholm will open the way for his extradition to the U.S. on possible espionage or conspiracy charges over WikiLeaks' publication of hundreds of thousands of leaked classified U.S. reports."

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Re:I still don't get it

[Anonymous Coward]

Assange was accessory to Bradley Manning commiting treason, that is not "investigative journalism". Manning is charged for "aiding the enemy". Obviously Assange is not a traitor because is american, but he is an enemy of the US, and a coward.

Re:I still don't get it

[ScentCone]

he only led an effort to make the leaked documents available to the world.

Which may well have involved him and his group working directly with the guy who stole the files in order to give him a way to handle the dump of humdreds of thousands of them. People keep glossing over that little annoying detail.