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“The superseding indictment alleges that Assange was complicit with Chelsea Manning”

If you go past the pages of repetitive legalise, you’ll find that the specific “aiding and abetting” was that Chelsea sent him an NT hash to try and crack. Julian tried and failed.

That’s the “crime”.

Keep in mind he’s an Australian citizen who committed alleged crimes against a country he wasn’t even present in at the time.

Oh sorry… allegedly aided and abetted a crime.

Yeah. Totally worth a decade-long multinational effort to extradite a guy for failing to successfully use hashcat. Which any idiot can download from GitHub.

I don't think you get the GP's point. The comment was meant to describe motivations. Obviously no one is literally charged with "upsetting people in power".

"Russia used Republican political operative Paul Manafort and the WikiLeaks website to try to help now-U.S. President Donald Trump win the 2016 election, a Republican-led Senate committee said in its final review of the matter on Tuesday."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-russia-senate/s...