Hillary Clinton: Julian Assange "must answer for what he's done"

Assange was arrested Thursday morning by British police at the Ecuadorian Embbady in London under an American extradition warrant, thus ending his seven-year stay in that country. He was arrested for bail in the UK in 2012 and at the request of US authorities, the London Metropolitan Police said.

During the 2016 campaign, WikiLeaks broadcast stolen internal communications content to the Democratic National Committee and the Clinton Presidential Campaign. The Justice Department said Thursday that Assange had been charged with conspiracy to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning, the former army intelligence badyst who had provided thousands of clbadified documents to the United States. WikiLeaks.

"I think it 's clear from the published indictment that it' s not a matter of punishing journalism, but of helping hacking. a military computer to steal information from the US government, and look, I'll wait to see what happens charges and how it goes, but he jumped on bail in the UK, "said Clinton.

"In the end, he must answer for what he's done, at least as it's been blamed," said the former state secretary to the public.

"I think it's a bit ironic that he may be the only stranger this administration would like to welcome to the United States," joked Clinton.