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Julian Assange has been charged, prosecutors reveal inadvertently in court filing
WAPO ^ | 11/15/2018 | Matt Zapotosky and Devlin Barrett

Posted on 11/15/2018 9:30:54 PM PST by bitt

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been charged under seal, prosecutors inadvertently revealed in a recently unsealed court filing — a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election and have major implications for those who publish government secrets.

The disclosure came in a filing in a case unrelated to Assange. Assistant U.S. Attorney Kellen S. Dwyer, urging a judge to keep the matter sealed, wrote that “due to the sophistication of the defendant and the publicity surrounding the case, no other procedure is likely to keep confidential the fact that Assange has been charged.” Later, Dwyer wrote the charges would “need to remain sealed until Assange is arrested.”

Dwyer is also assigned to the WikiLeaks case. People familiar with the matter said what Dwyer was disclosing was true, but unintentional.

Joshua Stueve, a spokesman for the U.S. attorney’s office in the Eastern District of Virginia, said, “The court filing was made in error. That was not the intended name for this filing.” An FBI spokeswoman declined to comment.

Federal prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia have long been investigating Assange and, in the Trump administration, had begun taking a second look at whether to charge members of the WikiLeaks organization for the 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents that the anti-secrecy group published. Investigators also had explored whether WikiLeaks could face criminal liability for the more recent revelation of sensitive CIA cybertools.

Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III also has explored WikiLeaks’ publication of emails from the Democratic National Committee and the account of Hillary Clinton’s then-campaign chairman, John D. Podesta. Officials have alleged that the emails were hacked by Russian spies and transferred to WikiLeaks

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: assange; devlinbarrett; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; doj; ecuador; julianassange; mattzapotosky; mediawingofthednc; partisanmediashills; presstitutes; smearmachine; unitedkingdom; wikileaks
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1 posted on 11/15/2018 9:30:54 PM PST by bitt
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; 2ndDivisionVet; azishot; ...

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2 posted on 11/15/2018 9:31:12 PM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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hmmm...discovery could be fun...


3 posted on 11/15/2018 9:31:39 PM PST by bitt ("Let justice be done though the heavens fall".)
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To: bitt

a development that could significantly advance the probe into Russian interference...

The Wa Po wouldn’t print something it didn’t think wasn’t detrimental to the president.


4 posted on 11/15/2018 9:34:29 PM PST by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: bitt

Q - Assange is safe flown to USA.

Or words similar.

Assange being indicted and extradited is neither safe nor him being flown to the USA.

Another nails in the coffin for Q


5 posted on 11/15/2018 9:34:46 PM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: bitt

As the “Church Lady” (Dana Carvey) used to say:

“How conVEEEEENient.”

BLOAT, folks, it’s gonna get UGLY, SOON!


6 posted on 11/15/2018 9:34:52 PM PST by Don W (When blacks riot, neighbourhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn.)
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To: bitt

How can this case avoid Seth Rich’s murder?


7 posted on 11/15/2018 9:34:55 PM PST by txhurl (whoa)
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To: bitt

I hope he has renewed his lease at the embassy.


8 posted on 11/15/2018 9:41:43 PM PST by Blue House Sue
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Dems say Russians hacked the Hillary, DNC, DCC servers while giving marching orders to Mueller to find out who really did it.

Seth Rich did it for the DNC server, the Romanian who goes by Guccifer 1 did it for Hillary’s server.

Mueller searches for who ‘attacked’ these servers, who are the current ‘Watergate burglars’ while all blame is wrongfully cast on Trump because ... it just needs to be done that way somehow.


9 posted on 11/15/2018 9:41:43 PM PST by Hostage (Article V (Proud Member of the Deranged Q Fringe))
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To: txhurl

when will the FakeNewsMSM investigate the collusion between Clinton/MSM exposed in the Podesta emails?


10 posted on 11/15/2018 9:42:52 PM PST by MAGAthon
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To: Para-Ord.45

Shouldn’t your comment be in the Q thread?


11 posted on 11/15/2018 9:43:04 PM PST by crusher2013
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“whether to charge members of the WikiLeaks organization for the 2010 leak of diplomatic cables and military documents that the anti-secrecy group published”

Liberals and leftists, Dems, were perfectly happy when Wikileaks was giving out US military and security information.


12 posted on 11/15/2018 9:44:31 PM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: bitt

If I collect Chinese state secrets and put them on the internet, will I faces charges from China? How about if I did it to Russia? Will they arrest me?


13 posted on 11/15/2018 9:52:11 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: crusher2013

Q thread is for conspiracy theorists.

These are facts.


14 posted on 11/15/2018 9:52:37 PM PST by Para-Ord.45 (Americans, happy in tutelage by the reflection that they have chosen their own dictators.)
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To: crusher2013

The cult threads do not allow independent critical thinking.


15 posted on 11/15/2018 9:55:22 PM PST by Trump_the_Evil_Left (FReeper formerly known as Enchante (registered Sept. 5, 2001), back from the wild....)
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To: bitt

Why were all those emails on the perverts laptop in NYC under the file name “Insurance”?


16 posted on 11/15/2018 9:55:31 PM PST by Dogbert41 (When the strong man, fully armed, guards his own dwelling, his goods are safe. -Luke 11:21)
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To: Theoria

Is this why HRC is suddenly running again? To avoid all these ‘political attacks’?


17 posted on 11/15/2018 9:57:04 PM PST by txhurl (whoa)
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To: Para-Ord.45

The elections being safe another bad call.


18 posted on 11/15/2018 9:58:49 PM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: bitt

Weasels Mueller, Comey, Brennan, Clapper and RosenWeasel need to be arested first.


19 posted on 11/15/2018 10:00:37 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: 9YearLurker

QQQQ, Q......


20 posted on 11/15/2018 10:01:46 PM PST by Paladin2
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