Pentagon Papers whistleblower tells extradition hearing
WikiLeaks founder won’t get a fair trial in the US
The man who leaked the
Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam war has defended
Julian Assange at his
London extradition hearing on Wednesday, saying WikiLeaks had acted in the public interest and warned that its founder would not get a fair trial in the United States.
Australian-born Assange, 49, is fighting efforts to send him to the
United States, where he is charged with conspiring to
Hack government computers and violating an espionage law over the release of confidential cables by WikiLeaks in 2010-2011.