Justice Department said Assange was charged with conspiring with former Army analyst Chelsea Manning to gain access to computer as part of 2010 leak by WikiLeaks of hundreds of thousands of U.S military reports about Afghanistan and Iraq and American diplomatic communications.. ... It..…
Julian Assange has been arrested for his alleged role in exposing U.S. war crimes in Iraq & Afghanistan. @wikileaks was rescuing democracy from Leviathan. That’s a crime?!? https://t.co/RnzGTjiGjh . — James Bovard (@JimBovard) April 11, 2019 . . ..…
It was triggered in part by WikiLeaks 2010 publication of hundreds of thousands of U.S military reports about Afghanistan and Iraq and American diplomatic communications, disclosure that embarrassed Washington and caused strained relations with allies.. ..…
Three months later, WikiLeaks published 400,000 classified documents in its Iraq War Diary. . ... OCTOBER 2010 WikiLeaks publishes 400,000 classified documents in its Iraq War Diary. . ..…
October: Wikileaks posts nearly 400,000 classified military documents it calls “The Iraq War Logs;” they detail the involvement of Iraqi security forces in the torture of prisoners of war, document higher civilian death tolls and describe Iran’s support for Iraqi insurgents . ..…