[Hostage]

DOJ wants Snowden in the USA to testify the DNC email exposure was from a leak, not a hack.

It’s a tug of war for extradition.

[Alberta's Child]

That could be the case, but consider these two things:

1. Your scenario would have made sense with the original indictment. It was a single count that wouldn’t result in much punishment.

2. The second set of indictments makes it HARDER to extradite Assange to the U.S. because he’s now facing 150+ years in prison and foreign courts will have to consider an “excessive punishment” angle. So he now has legal grounds to fight extradition even from countries that would otherwise be obligated to hand him over to the U.S. under the terms of an extradition treaty.

[Hostage]

Just saw a huge mistake in this post to you but you likely understood it from context.

DOJ wants Assange, not Snowden, in the USA to testify the DNC email exposure was a result of a leak, not a hack.