US prosecutors have charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with conspiracy for agreeing to break a password to a classified US government computer with former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010.
According to court documents, unsealed on Thursday, the charge relates to Assange‘s alleged role in one of the “largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States”, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.
Assange, 47, was arrested by British police on Thursday, paving the way for possible extradition to the US. He had been living in the Ecuadorian embassy in London since 2012, but Ecuador‘s President Lenin Moreno said the government revoked Assange’s asylum because of his “discourteous and aggressive behaviour”.
According to British police, the Ecuadorian ambassador in London invited authorities into the embassy where they made the arrest for breaking bail conditions in the UK and on
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