US tries to build a case against Julian Assange

Federal prosecutors, seeking to build a case against the WikiLeaks leader Julian Assange for his role in a huge dissemination of classified government documents, are looking for evidence of any collusion in his early contacts with an Army intelligence analyst suspected of leaking the information. Justice Department officials are trying to find out whether Assange […]

How Bradley Manning passed on the classified material to WikiLeaks

An innocuous-looking memory stick, no longer than a couple of fingernails, came into the hands of a Guardian reporter earlier this year. The device is so small it will hang easily on a keyring. The 1.6 gigabytes of text files ran to millions of words. Bradley Manning, 22, a former intelligence analyst is charged with […]