The indictment that will be used in the attempt to extradite JA is public - https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker ... cy-to-hackold salt wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 1:25 pmApparently, extraditing, then convicting Assange in the US, is not a slam dunk.Brooklyn wrote: ↑Thu Apr 11, 2019 11:42 am Julian Assange (mentioned above) has been released from asylum at the British Ecuadorian embassy for violating certain international protocols. Police arrested him immediately and his attorneys are fighting to keep him from getting extradited to the USA. Youtube is broadcasting live protests by Brit Marxists who are on his side and who do not want him extradited.
Interestingly, a YT right wing website also defended Assange despite all reports of him being a rabid anti-semite.
We shall see what happens next.
He could claim to be a journalist who just published what "whistlebiowers" brought to him.
Maybe the Pulitzer Prize winners he enabled will testify on his behalf.
https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/j ... -thoughts/
Basically he is charged with assisting Manning in hacking information...so the issue of extradition will hinge on if there is credibility behind the conspiracy charge...
Now his lawyer's are certainly trying to spin this as a First Amendment issue, but the actual charge does not depend on his publication of the stolen information, but rather in the assistance in the stealing of said information (which IS a crime which _potentially_ can be proven). Of course, there are some who would like to see journalists prosecuted for just publishing classified info - but that is not in the current charging docs (available at the link above).