Report: WikiLeaks' founder Julian Assange indicted in U.S.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2012/02/report-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange-indicted-in-115779.html

A top official at the private research service Stratfor told colleagues via e-mail last year that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was the subject of a sealed indictment by the U.S. Government, the Sydney Morning Herald reported.

The claim that Assange faces charges in the United States came in e-mails apparently stolen from Stratfor by the hackers' group Anonymous and relayed to news organizations by Assange's pro-transparency organization WikiLeaks.

"We have a sealed indictment on Assange," Stratfor vice president for intelligence Fred Burton said in a January 26, 2011, e-mail, according to the Herald. The Herald's report, published Wednesday morning in Australia, said Burton's note carried notations such as "please protect" and "not for pub[lication]" suggesting the source of the information was a US government official.