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US Investigators Probing Years of WikiLeaks Activities, Report Says (reuters.com)

WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange are the subject of a long-running criminal investigation in the U.S., Reuters reported on Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. Investigators have dug into the website's activities going back years, people who have been in contact with witnesses in the case say. From the report: American investigators are gathering information and pursuing witnesses involved in both recent WikiLeaks disclosures and the website's large-scale postings of U.S. military and diplomatic messages over several years from 2010. Officially, U.S. authorities have issued no public comments about the status of Wikileaks-related investigations. But a document which U.S. authorities said was mistakenly filed in open court in an unrelated case last November alluded to a sealed U.S. criminal complaint against Assange, though the document does not provide specifics regarding which laws U.S. prosecutors believe Assange violated.

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  1. Re: Classified Information by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    NYT and Washington Post are the only official leaking channels recognized and used by the FBI.

  2. Re:Classified Information by bill_mcgonigle · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You will be punished for embarrassing powerful people. The crime will be discovered to fit the punishment.

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  3. Mike Russia Today? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Trying to figure out if you are a Russian advocating for your country (fair enough...) or an American advocating for the most infamous traitor in recent US military history.

    Military academies will spend the next 50 years training cadets how not to betray their country like Mike Flynn.

  4. Re:Classified Information by elrous0 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    He violated the "The Country With the Biggest Military Gets To Make the Laws For Everyone Else" Act of Forever.

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