US Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that the United States will bring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to justice following his arrest by UK authorities in the Ecuadorian embassy in London
WASHINGTON (Pakistan Point News / Sputnik - 12th April, 2019) US Vice President Mike Pence said on Friday that the United States will bring WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to justice following his arrest by UK authorities in the Ecuadorian embassy in London."The Justice Department is now seeking extradition and we're going to bring Julian Assange to justice," Pence told CNN in an interview.
Assange was arrested on Thursday after Quito withdrew asylum from the WikiLeaks founder. Assange is facing a potential extradition to the United States, where he is wanted for "conspiracy to commit computer intrusion for agreeing to break a password to a classified US government computer."
The United States accused Assange of conspiring with former US Army soldier Chelsea Manning and helping her break into a classified US government computer and leak data related to the United States' activities in Afghanistan and Iraq, the Guantanamo Bay prison, and US diplomatic cables.
