The Justice Department detailed new evidence in a new indictment Wednesday filed against Julian Assange, alleging that WikiLeaks hackers leaked information that could be used to embarrass the government. Stealing can get into Icelandic government computers.
FBI agents and prosecutors in Manhattan were close to filing a criminal hacking case against WikiLeaks based on these allegations in 2011, but senior officials wanted to focus on the case of Assange in Virginia, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the investigation.
The Obama administration eventually decided not to pursue the Goonie Charm case because of First Amendment concerns; It was revived under President Trump over the objections of some of the prosecutors involved.
Overturning the indictment on 18 allegedly working with former US private Chelsea Manning does not steal classified documents from the government. The limits for new charges have expired. But the document adds evidence to the government's claim that Assange is neither a publisher nor a journalist.
A new indictment in federal court in Alexandria alleges Assange illegally obtained recordings of phone conversations between politicians in a foreign country. This explanation is in line with Icelandic hacker Sigurdur Thordarson, who was interviewed by prosecutors last year. According to the obscenity, Assange and Thorradson made a "joint effort" to decrypt the stolen file from the Icelandic Bank.
An official said Assange was angry over Iceland because it suspended the deal to keep the WinLix server in Finland.
According to prosecutors, Assange accessed an Icelandic government website and used it to verify that he was being monitored by police.
An important breakthrough came in the Assange investigation in June 2011, when a cyber group arrested a notorious hacker at the FBI's New York field office and was turned over that night by an agent named Milan Patel. Hector Munsegger, who left the online handle Sabu, co-founded Lulczek, an anonymous group of hacktivist collectives that hacked thousands of user accounts at Sony Pictures and crashed the CIA's public website.
Agents ordered Sabu to prove that Thordarson was working for Assange. According to former officials, in the form of two online chats, Thordeson gave Assange a camera on his iPhone and then returned to the chat. He uploaded the video to YouTube and the FBI kept a copy of it before Thordarson was fired.
Over the next two weeks, Sabu spoke directly to Assange, unaware that FBI agents were monitoring him. With the Iceland government's agreement, US officials produced fake classified documents to feed Sabu to Assange, including the Ersatz map to show the government's computer network topology.
Prosecutors in the Southern District of New York have filed a complaint with Thordarson alleging that he worked with the FBI and conspired to hack the computer. The idea was used to encourage Thordarson to use the complaint and to obtain direct evidence that Assange was seeking the hack, but the government never went ahead.
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