DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

Read it.

Julian Ku says the answer is yes, under US domestic statutes … if the US can catch him.  The “him” in question is Julian Assange, an Australian living in Sweden.  (The Swedish prosecutor has withdrawn its unrelated rape charge against Assange in apparent embarrassment, and Assange in turn has accused the prosecutor of possibly having been led into a dirty tricks campaign by the Pentagon.)

If the Mossad can do it, I don’t know why we can’t. (Oh, I forgot — the CIA are a bunch of jerk-offs.)

But what of US charges of espionage?  Adam Entous and Evan Perez report at the WSJ of the US government considering such charges .  At Opinio Juris, Ku analyzes the US domestic statute and concludes that the obstacle is not bringing charges under the statute, which does not preclude espionage chargers against a foreign person outside the United States, but instead having physical custody over a defendant.

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