{"id":26724,"date":"2019-04-12T15:13:18","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/packetstormsecurity.com\/news\/view\/30026\/Assange-Charges-Finally-Reveal-Why-Manning-Is-Sitting-In-Jail.html"},"modified":"2019-04-12T15:13:18","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:13:18","slug":"assange-charges-finally-reveal-why-manning-is-sitting-in-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.threatshub.org\/blog\/assange-charges-finally-reveal-why-manning-is-sitting-in-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Assange Charges Finally Reveal Why Manning Is Sitting In Jail"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kristinn Hrafnsson, editor of WikiLeaks, and barrister Jennifer Robinson speak to the media outside Westminster magistrates court where WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was appearing in London, Thursday, April 11, 2019.Photo: Alastair Grant \/ AP<\/p><\/div>\n

Charges announced<\/a> by the Justice Department on Thursday against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange provide fresh insight into why federal prosecutors sought to question whistleblower Chelsea Manning last month before a federal grand jury in the Eastern District of Virginia.<\/p>\n

Manning, convicted in 2013 of leaking classified U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks, was jailed in early March as a recalcitrant witness after refusing to answer<\/a> the grand jury\u2019s questions. After her arrest, she was held in solitary confinement in a Virginia jail for nearly a month before being moved into its general population\u2014all in an attempt to coerce her into answering questions about conversations she allegedly had with Assange at the time of her illegal disclosures, according to court filings.<\/p>\n

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Though Manning confessed to leaking more than 725,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks following her deployment to Iraq in 2009\u2014including battlefield reports and five Guantanamo Bay detainee profiles\u2014she was charged with leaking portions of only a couple hundred documents, including dozens of diplomatic cables that have since been declassified.<\/p>\n

British authorities on Thursday removed Assange<\/a> from the Ecuadorian embassy in London, his home for nearly seven years, following Ecuador\u2019s decision to rescind his asylum. The U.S. government has requested that he be extradited to the United States to face a federal charge of conspiracy to commit computer crimes.<\/p>\n

Until Thursday, the reasons were fuzzy as to why Manning had been called to testify at all. Prosecutors had privately hinted to her attorneys that they believed the former U.S. Army intelligence analyst had provided conflicting statements about her communications with the anti-secrecy organization. But as of late March, supporters working closely with her legal team said that no such accusation<\/a> had been raised in court.<\/p>\n

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