Prosecutors have been pursuing a case against the WikiLeaks founder.
By Rachel Weiner and Rachel Weiner Local reporter covering federal court in Alexandria, Va. and local court in Arlington and Alexandria.
The subpoena was signed last month by Gordon Kromberg, a national security prosecutor on the Assange case. Kromberg last month persuaded a judge to leave sealed an indictment against Assange despite its inadvertent exposure in an unrelated court filing last year. “The heart of the controversy is, there’s never been a successful prosecution” for publishing classified information, Vladeck said. “There has always been the specter of a First Amendment defense.”
Last July, computer expert David House, who befriended Manning in 2010 at a hacker space in Boston he founded, testified for 90 minutes before the grand jury. In an interview, House said he met the WikiLeaks founder in January 2011 while Assange was under house arrest at Ellingham Hall, a manor house 120 miles northeast of London. Assange was fighting an extradition request by Sweden, where he faced an inquiry into allegations of sexual assault.
The grand jury seemed interested in whether Assange had solicited Manning to hack on WikiLeaks’ behalf, but did not press “very hard” on that, he said. House said he fears retribution for being associated with WikiLeaks and Manning in 2010 and does not believe the U.S. prosecution is warranted.
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