British lawyers for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said Friday they are preparing for the possibility that their client will be indicted in they U.S.
Jennifer Robinson, an attorney at London’s Finers Stephens Innocent, said that Assange is entitled to First Amendment protection as a publisher and that any planned prosecution under the Espionage Act would “in my view be unconstitutional and puts at risk all media organizations in the U.S.”
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