Charging Assange reflects dramatic shift in US approach

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Charging Assange reflects dramatic shift in US approach

Sunday, 14 April 2019 | AP | Washington

The decision to seek the extradition  of Julian Assange marked a dramatic new approach to the founder of  WikiLeaks by the U.S. Government, a shift that was signalled in the  early days of the Trump administration.

President Barack Obama’s Justice Department had extensive internal  debates about whether to charge Assange amid concerns the case might  not hold up in court and would be viewed as an attack on journalism  by an administration already taking heat for leak prosecutions.

But senior Trump administration officials seemed to make clear early  on that they held a different view, dialling up the rhetoric on the  anti-secrecy organisation shortly after it made damaging disclosures about the CIA’s cyberespionage tools.                

 

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