April 11, 2019, Assange was arrested after being taken from the Ecuadorian embassy. The U.S Justice Department believes that with the position of Wikileaks during the 2016 elections, he, Julian Assange, had a key role in the Russian attack on the 2016 elections. During the same election, Assange had released DNC staff flies as well, which many believe that he released them because the next day was a democratic election. Soon after, a DNC staffer named Seth Rich was murdered and was believed to be leaking the e-mails. Also, the U.S Department of Defense believes that Assange had conspired with Chelsea Manning in cracking a password that was on a U.S Department of Defense computer, which is stored on a U.S government network and she had downloaded 1,000 classified documents. Journalists as accomplices Director Clapper has referred to Snowden's "accomplices", while Rep. Peter King explicitly accused Greenwald of having Snowden as an "accomplice". UK Conservative politician Liam Fox has contacted the UK Director of Public Prosecutions to consider whether journalists at The Guardian "breached counter-terrorism laws". Pressure from the NSA Computer Science Professor Matthew Green of Johns Hopkins University posted a statement critical of the NSA. The university issued a statement it had "received information that Matthew Green's blog contained a link or links to classified material", after which it asked him to remove the post. Following this, the NSA's logo was removed and the material was published in many different news outlets so the Interim Dean, Andrew Douglas, will have the post restored. References Surveillance Journalism Global ethics