Assange tried to warn White House about massive classified documents leak, defense lawyers say
Julian Assange frantically tried to warn the White House that thousands of unredacted classified diplomatic cables were about to be released on the internet, his lawyers told a London court Tuesday on the second day of the WikiLeaks founder’s extradition hearing.
Assange, 48, is fighting extradition to the U.S., where he is facing 18 charges that he conspired with Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to release classified documents to the world. The indictment against Assange describes the leak as “the largest compromise of classified information in the history of the United States.”
Instead, Assange partnered with news organizations including the Guardian, the New York Times and Der Spiegel to release the cables in an orderly, safe manner later that year. He also carefully worked with their journalists to ensure identities in the cables were protected, even involving people in the the U.S. government who were “feeding redactions into the media partnership,” Summers said.
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