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"On 11 April 2019, the day of Assange's arrest in London, the indictment against him was unsealed.[60] He was charged with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion (i.e. hacking into a government computer), a crime that carries a maximum 5-year sentence.[61][62]
The charges allege that Assange sought to help Chelsea Manning crack a password hash so that Manning could use a different username to download classified documents. This "would have made it more difficult for investigators to identify Manning as the source of disclosures of classified information".[63][64][65][66] This allegation had been known since 2011 and is a less serious charge than those levelled against Manning, and carries a maximum sentence of five years.[67][68] The US pointed to chat logs and filed an affidavit that said they were able to identify Assange as the person chatting with Manning using hints he made during the chats and that Manning identified him as Assange to Adrian Lamo.[64][69]"
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indictment_and_arrest_of_Julian_Assange#:~:text=He%20was%20charged%20with%20conspiracy,a%20maximum%205%2Dyear%20sentence.
No Im right on the money here
What did they charge Al Capone with?
Tax evasion as they could prove that. There is evidence that Assange was directly involved in the hacks. He is being charged with that.
That the US law forbids such acts is a no brainer. But it's still "Telling the truth". imho this qualifies him for the nobel peace price rather than incarceration.
No it isn't telling the truth. He isn't being pursued for sharing the info but rather in directly committing crimes to get the info. The NYT could publish the Pentagon Papers because they did not steal them.
Assange is accused of being involved in the theft. He's also now a Russian stooge so probably deserves nothing other than what the US prison system will give him.
Debatable. But even if he did, that means he helped uncover the human rights abuses of the US and it's allies and their unbelievable collateral damage(~60% of deaths in Irak where civilians). Again maybe legally wrong, but ethically it was the right thing to do.
I don't know where you get that info from, but if I had messed with the largest military industrial complex on the planet, I'd be looking for friends in other contries aswell. Snowden understadably did the same.
I wouldn't even want my worst enemy to experience US prisons. They are inhumane and they torture prisoners (extended solitary confinement) on a daily basis as a form of coercion. How could you wish this on anyone?
It isn't debatable as that is what he is charged with. The fact that his crimes might have produced benefits for someone is immaterial to the fact he broke the law.
Given that he is without question in the employ if the Kremlin at this point, and possibly always was, he's not someone I would hold up as being heroic or ethical.
His crimes are crimes. He isn't protected by 1A if he broke the law to get the info he shared.