In his strongest comments on the matter, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Assange had allegedly endangered lives and put US national security at risk.
The United States’ top foreign policy official has urged Australians to understand American concerns about Julian Assange’s publishing of leaked classified information, saying the WikiLeaks founder is alleged to have endangered lives and put US national security at risk.
The US is seeking to extradite Assange from London’s Belmarsh prison to face 17 counts of breaching the US Espionage Act plus a separate hacking-related charge.Pool AFP The nations also agreed to deepen co-operation on space technologies to counter China’s rapid investment in this domain, as well as fortifying Australia’s northern bases and increasing rotations of US troops through Australia.
“The actions that he is alleged to have committed risked very serious harm to our national security, to the benefit of our adversaries, and put named human sources at grave risk of physical harm, grave risk of detention. She added there were limits to what could be achieved until Assange’s legal processes had concluded. Manning’s case had reached a “different point in terms of legal proceedings” than that of Assange when Barack Obama commuted her sentence to a seven-year jail term.seeking to gather new evidence about AssangeAssange’s supporters reacted angrily to Blinken’s comments. Greg Barns, a legal adviser to the Australian Assange campaign, said: “Australia is the US’s closest ally.
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