WikiLeaks: The US is indeed investigating Assange for publishing secret information, DOJ letter suggests

Death penalty for journalism? Assange and Domscheit-Berg in 2009. CC-BY 2.0 andygee1This is a translation of the original German reporting and document.
Right after the London police carried Julian Assange from the Ecuadorian embassy, the United States demanded his extradition. A March 2018 indictment charges him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, carrying a maximum penalty of five years in prison. But that is not the entire truth.
Only one day after writing the indictment, the US Att