The FBI and federal prosecutors in Alexandria, Virginia, first began investigating Assange in 2010 and amassed a wealth of internal WikiLeaks chats and documents from informants and subpoenas. But the Obama administration was reluctant to indict Assange. . A former senior Justice..…
The Obama administration, wanted to charge Assange too and worried it would have chilling effect on press freedoms.. ..…
Ask Julian Assange. Ask the families of all those “enemy combatants” Obama droned. ..…
In Vinograd’s case, it was as senior advisor in the Obama administration. Triumphantly, she claims, Assange “knowingly endangered the lives of journalists, religious leaders, human rights advocates, and political dissidents and did incredible harm to our national security.” ..…
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