Wikileaks

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Speaking of charges, according to The Register, Assange's lawyer expects charges will be brought against him under the US' Espionage Act.

Is that even possible? Considering Assange technically didn't commit any crime within US jurisdiction. Unless somebody finds a loophole with the information being hosted on an Amazon server within the States and tries to push that.

The US government has a history of persecuting, excuse me, "prosecuting" foreign citizens for acts committed in foreign countries that are legal in those countries, even in cases where those foreign citizens had never set foot in the US before. In the past those cases have involved fairly blatant political corruption--British executives of online poker companies that compete with state lotteries and Russian programmers who crack DRM, for example. It's hardly surprising that they would be willing to do the same to protect their own interests. This sort of thing is obviously ridiculously unjust, but then, so is the US government. And since there's very strong support for the whole "Amerika, Amerika über alles, Über alles in der Welt" attitude, so there's really no chance of this ever changing from within the US.