Julian Assange of WikiLeaks was indicted under the Espionage Act for publishing classified files in 2010, raising profound First Amendment issues.
Thursday, May 23, 2019 4:01 PM EST
The new charges were part of a superseding indictment obtained by the Trump administration that significantly expanded the legal case against Mr. Assange, who is already fighting extradition proceedings in London based on an earlier hacking-related count brought by federal prosecutors in Northern Virginia.
The secret documents that Mr. Assange published were provided by the former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who was convicted at a court-martial trial in 2013 of leaking the records.
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