Julian Assange
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Evidence that the U.S. wants to charge him
-On December 2, 2010, two influential U.S. Senators, Democrat Dianne Feinstein and Republican Christopher Bond wrote to Attorney General Eric Holder to declare "Mr Assange's conduct is espionage . . . we urge that he be prosecuted under the Espionage Act".
-A few days later, Feinstein, head of the Senate Intelligence Committee, took out a column in the Wall Street Journal to make the same case ("Prosecute Assange Under the Espionage Act").
-On December 19, Vice President Biden called Assange a "terrorist" and suggested that his case was fundamentally different from that of a journalist receiving leaked information. "If he conspired to get these classified documents with a member of the US military that is fundamentally different than if someone drops on your lap."
-In January, 2011, the New York Times reported that the Justice Department had gone to Court to force Twitter to provide details of the account activity of several Wikileaks members, including Assange. The Times called it "the first public evidence of a criminal investigation."
-In April, 2011, U.S. news site Salon.com reported that they had obtained a copy of a subpoena issued by a Grand Jury in Alexandria, Virgina. According to the article, "the Subpoena explicitly indicates that the Grand Jury is investigating possible violations of the Espionage Act (18 U.S.C. 793)."