Washington Post Reporting Assange has been Indicted!!!!

[Julian Englis]

Holy cow!!!! A little collusion, maybe?

Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal in inadvertent court filing

November 15 at 11:19 PM

WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government secrets.

The disclosure came in a filing in a case unrelated to Assange. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer, urging a judge to keep the matter sealed, wrote "due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged." Later, Dwyer wrote the charges would "need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested."

Dwyer is also assigned to the WikiLeaks case. People familiar with the matter said what Dwyer was disclosing was true, but unintentional.

Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of Virginia said, “The court filing was made in error. That was not the intended name for this filing.”

[2naSalit]

1. 'bout time...nt

[Takket]

2. That is a pretty huge fuck up, dropping his name by accident

He’ll never leave that embassy now.

[wryter2000]

3. Poor Ecuador

Someone really ought to take him off their hands for a while

[musicblind]

4. Yeah, that's pretty bad.

I don't think these would be Mueller's people. Are they?

[Celerity]

6. it doesn't seem to be related to the Trump shit

I am not totally sure though.

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have long been investigating Assange, and in the Trump administration had begun taking a second look at whether to charge members of the WikiLeaks organization for the 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents that the anti-secrecy group published. Investigators also had explored whether WikiLeaks could face criminal liability for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cybertools.

[OAITW r.2.0]

5. Why mention his name? seems like a major cock-up

as my Brit friends would say.