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Some journalists keenly cite FBI informer Marcy Wheeler's wild & eager speculations on EDVA's #Assange indictment. But indications so far in fact point to the indictment relating to @xychelsea's case & @WikiLeaks revelations of US wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Cablegate, GITMO.
First of all, the document indicates that the indictment is in the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA). This is where the WikiLeaks Grand Jury (Ref:10GJ3793) has been empanelled since 2010 in order to indict Assange over the publications that Chelsea Manning was convicted over.
The @WikiLeaks Grand Jury was headed at the time by Neil MacBride (who was also responsible for the prosecution of CIA whistleblower @JohnKiriakou). MacBride is an aggressive proponent of the extraterritorial application of US criminal jurisdiction. washingtonpost.com/world/national… 
Working under MacBride was Zachary Terwilliger, at the time MacBride was leading the WikiLeaks Grand Jury relating to @xyschelsea's case.
Terwilliger's signature is on the court document that revealed the sealed indictment against #Assange on Thursday.
justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/a…
Terwilliger's signature is on the court document that revealed the sealed indictment against #Assange on Thursday.
justice.gov/usao-edva/pr/a…
Furthermore, the language used by Mike Pompeo, while still acting as CIA Director, in relation to WikiLeaks and it's alleged source @xychelsea in his infamous "non-state hostile intelligence service" CSIS speech was missed or ommitted by many of those whom claim domain expertise.
In February 2012, WikiLeaks published emails from the "shadow CIA" private intelligence company Stratfor. Its vice president Fred Burton (who had previously had a senior US intelligence role) wrote in January 2011: "We have a sealed indictment for Assange"
In relation to a possible Snowden-related indictment of Assange, see:
A further datapoint re US interest to imprison Assange over @xychelsea era leaks: Reuters reported that in Nov 2017 FBI contacted German BKA "seeking fresh information about how actively Assange had been involved in persuading Manning to leak U.S. secrets" web.archive.org/web20180205162…
In May 2017, at the press conference where Sweden announced it was closing its "preliminary investigation" into Assange, the prosecutor admitted to having been contacted by the FBI, but claimed she deleted the email and 'could not recall' its contents
Note: don't be put off by the Swedish text in the beginning, most of the video of the Swedish prosecutor talking about the email from the FBI agent is in English (through the interpreter).
