Julian Assange tried to contact
Hillary Clinton and the
White House when he realized that unredacted U.S. diplomatic cables given to
WikiLeaks were about to be dumped on the internet, his lawyer told his
London extradition hearing on Tuesday.
Assange is being sought by the
United States on 18 counts of hacking U.S. government computers and an espionage offense, having allegedly conspired with
Chelsea Manning, then a U.S. soldier known as Bradley Manning, to leak hundreds of thousands of secret documents by WikiLeaks almost a decade ago.