Julian Assange: a decade of stunning leaks of US secrets

The US government has regarded WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a dangerous national security threat ever since he and his organization opened a decade-long effort to expose US secrets -- from military files to embarrassing Democratic Party emails during the 2016 election. After holing up in Ecuador's London embassy for seven years, Assange was arrested by British police Thursday on a US extradition request, outraging press freedom groups. Washington has investigated Australian-born Assange, 47, since at least 2010 when he published hundreds of thousands of US military and diplomatic files obtained from a US Army intelligence official, Bradley Manning.

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