WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was charged Thursday by the U.S. Department of Justice after being arrested by police at the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
The case concerns "one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States," the Justice Department alleged in a press release. He faces up to five years in prison on a charge of conspiracy to commit computer intrusion.
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