<span style="color: #222222;">The US Justice Department has decided not to charge WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange for his role in exposing some of the US Central Intelligence Agency's (CIA) most classified documents, US Politico news outlet reported on Sunday, citing sources familiar with the case.<br />'' <br />'' In March 2017, Wikileaks published a series of documents, dubbed Vault 7, which contained information on CIA allegedly developing malware and zero-day exploits to gain access to people's personal information. The leak rendered the software tools useless and gave foreign hackers access to them.<br />'' <br />''<br />''According to the news outlet, the prosecutors have decided to forego the extra charges due to the sensitivity of the materials involved in the case, the authenticity of which CIA has never confirmed. Additionally, prosecutors do not have enough time to file the charges.&nbsp;</span><br />
News On AIR | June 3, 2019 7:33 AM
US Justice Dept not to charge Assange over his role in CIA leak