ALJAZEERA: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange runs little risk of being charged in the United States for having published hundreds of thousands of classified documents, The Washington Post reported Tuesday, citing unnamed U.S. officials…
Assange has been holed up in the Ecuadoran embassy in London since June 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden and face questioning in two sexual assault cases. He has insisted, however, that he is driven by fear that he will be extradited to the United States to face trial for WikiLeaks’ publication of classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents.
The Post, however, said the Justice Department has all but concluded it will not bring charges against Assange, even though a grand jury investigating the massive leak remains impaneled. Government lawyers believed they could not prosecute Assange without also prosecuting U.S. journalists and news outlets that had taken part in leaks, which they were not going to do, the Post said… (more)
