Assange in stir: US establishment nails Wikileaks founder

The indictment said Assange participated in the hacking in 'real-time' and encouraged the act, ta charge that will enable prosecutors to get around any potential First Amendment defence that Assange might claim by arguing he was only a recipient of classified information. According to the indictment, on March 8, 2010, Assange agreed to assist (then Bradley) Chelsea Manning crack the password stored on United States Defense Department computers

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