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I've been reading the newly unsealed US v Assange affidavit, written by FBI special agent Megan Brown. Here are some parts that I find interesting courtlistener.com/recap/gov.usco…
The alleged crime was in 2010, but Brown wasn't assigned to the case until 2017. I think this adds weight to the argument that Obama DOJ decided they couldn't move forward for press freedom reasons, but Trump DOJ decided to just go for it, because screw the free press 
The affidavit says that according to Chelsea Manning, she was a source for an Iceland-related WL release. A forensic analysis of her DoD computer let them know exactly which files were burned to a CD, and when
Assange and Manning allegedly communicated over Jabber, and specifically used the jabber.ccc.de server, run by the group who puts on the Chaos Communications Congress conferences in Germany.
(Back around 2010, I and many of my friends also used this jabber server)
(Back around 2010, I and many of my friends also used this jabber server)
The affidavit implies that they forensically recovered deleted files in order to get the jabber chat logs off of Manning's computer
Manning allegedly booted to a Linux CD on two DoD Windows computers, which apparently didn't use disk encryption and allowed booting from CDs, to dump password hashes.
The password Assange allegedly agreed to help crack was for the FTP user, which didn't belong to a human
The password Assange allegedly agreed to help crack was for the FTP user, which didn't belong to a human
Contrary to what a lot of people seem to believe, the password in question was for a local computer-only account on two Windows computers that Manning had legit access to. It wouldn't have given her access to new databases or documents that she didn't already have access to
