Julian Assange: I'll turn myself in if Chelsea Manning walks

September 16, 2016 04:09

America's most wanted hackers apparently think they've got some leverage over the US government.

The ACLU last week began petitioning the Obama administration for a full pardon for Edward Snowden and, on Thursday, Julian Assange announced that he would willingly hand himself over to US authorities.

But that's if, and only if, the Feds drop their court-martial conviction of Chelsea Manning.

Chelsea Manning, formerly Private Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in Ft Leavenworth prison for violating the Espionage Act after she leaked a trove of classified documents to Assange's Wikileaks website. Assange himself faces espionage charges in the US for his role in publishing those illicitly obtained documents.

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