“Where is our jurisdiction?”
The claim is that he didn’t simply publish what Mr. Manning provided him, but also helped him plan the data breach and hack some of the encryption/security.
If that is true, then he is an accomplice and can’t claim the protections a member of the press normally would.
Since the Ecuadorian Embassy gave the US government all of Assange’s possessions such as files, computers, etc, the chain of custody of those things has been broken, and I am sure my government can make it look like his files show any damn thing they want to convict him.
Probably that he worked for Russia, and colluded with Trump to kill Seth Rich, JFK, and Abraham Lincoln.