Can someone explain to me what Julian Assange has been charged with in the US

[sabrina 1]

77. Manning has been charged with crimes. There is no GJ necessary AFTER

someone has been charged. The GJ is for Assange. Manning is past that stage.

What if they charge him with information theft, based on his giving advice to Manning on how to break the password codes

If you read the chat logs with Manning you would know that Manning was an expert and needed no advice from anyone on how to break password codes. He was an Intelligence Analyst and was very, very good at his job.

He had complete access to all those files, a matter that has yet to be investigated. Because if anyone is at fault here, and this has been raised many times, it was the shocking lack of security that made it so easy for anyone who worked there as Manning did, to access all those files. But no one has been held accountable for that.

If they charge him with that, they will simply look ridiculous. Manning, before he was arrested, while talking on the chat logs explained how he accessed the material before he ever contacted Wikileaks.

As for trying to accuse a News Organization of stealing the info passed on to them by Whistle Blowers, if they try that, then they will have to charge every Journalist in the country also. A fact that has been pointed out many times and of which they are aware according to reports. 'We will run up against the 1st Amendment, this is going to be very difficult'.

Joe Lieberman otoh, believes they SHOULD 'investigate the NYT and WAPO, La Monde, Der Spiegel and every other newspaper who published the same material. What a chilling thing for a US Senator to even think, let alone say publicly for all the world to hear.