The 49-year-old intervened in his extradition hearing for the second time since it's resumption at the Old Bailey in London last week, earning him another stern reprimand from the judge hearing his case. | latikambourke
Julian Assange has again interrupted his extradition hearing, claiming that he never put informants lives at risk, when he published hundreds of thousands of State Department documents on his WikiLeaks website.
Ellsberg was pursed under the Espionage Act as is Assange. All charges against him were eventually dropped and he has become a vocal supporter of Assange as well as Chelsea Manning, who leaked to Assange the hacked files. Ellsberg also supports Edward Snowden who leaked classified documents he had access to as a CIA subcontractor.The United States government has asked Britain to extradite Assange to face 18 counts of violating the Espionage Act with most charges relating to computer hacking.
Assange's outburst came as the QC representing the US government, James Lewis, was cross-examining Ellsberg.
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