Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in late 2017, more than 2 months earlier than disclosed in the indictment when he was arrested last week, court documents revealed.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange arrives at the Westminster Magistrates Court, after he was arrested in London on April 11, 2019.Get breaking news alerts and special reports. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in late 2017, more than two months earlier than disclosed in the indictment when he was arrested last week, court documents released Monday revealed.
Assange was taken into custody April 11 after spending more than six years under the protection of Ecuador's embassy in London. A federal indictment unsealed after his arrest accused him of trying to help a U.S. Army private crack an encrypted password to hack into a Pentagon computer and steal classified documents.
But charges for the same offense were actually filed in secret on Dec. 21, 2017, in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia. The 26-page affidavit accompanying the charges listed what it said were hundreds of online exchanges between Assange and the Army private, Chelsea Manning, who provided hundreds of thousands of government documents, many of them classified, to WikiLeaks.
After one transmission of documents, the charges said, Manning messaged,"thats all i really have got left." When Assange suggested getting more, Manning replied,"ive already exposed quite a bit, just no-one knows yet. ill slip into darkness for a few years, let the heat die down," according to the newly unsealed court filing.
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