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Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped the analyst, Pfc. Bradley Manning, to extract classified military and State Department files from a government computer system. If he did so, they believe they could charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them.
Among materials prosecutors are studying is an online chat log in which Private Manning is said to claim that he had been directly communicating with Mr. Assange using an encrypted Internet conferencing service as the soldier was downloading government files.
U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder - NYTimes.com
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The US Government wants to charge him as a Conspirator in the classified leaks. I do not understand how the US could have any jurisdiction in charging Assange with a crime in the US since he did not commit a crime in the US.
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