Trump must decide whether to try to arrest WikiLeaks' Assange
MCCLATCHY WASHINGTON BUREAU
11 MAR 2017 AT 19:24 ET
WASHINGTON — For a few years, Julian Assange seemed to have faded from relevance. He took refuge in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London in 2012, fleeing a Swedish investigation into alleged sexual assault. At the embassy, he's been deprived of sunlight and occasionally his internet access has been cut.
But the Australian founder of the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks has managed to re-emerge as relevant to U.S. politics, first during the presidential campaign last year and now with a new dump of leaked documents, this time from the CIA.
Again, Assange is waving the flag as champion of transparency and a thorn in the side of the U.S. government, and touting the latest release as "an enormous journalistic scoop."
His re-emergence presents President Donald Trump with a problem. Trump once praised Assange but now faces the consequences of the CIA leak, and must decide whether to try to bring him to justice. Assange could be charged for publishing classified U.S. military and diplomatic documents in 2010 and 2011. The Justice Department did not respond to a request for comment on whether there is a sealed indictment of Assange.
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