Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is now in custody after spending the past seven years holed up in the Equadorian Embassy in London, seeking asylum.

He is accused of conspiring to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.

For more on the controversy, KCBS Radio News Anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell spoke with Michael Risch, a professor of law at Villanova University specializing in cyber law.

Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, is now in custody after spending the past seven years holed up in the Equadorian Embassy in London, seeking asylum. He is accused of conspiring to steal military secrets with Chelsea Manning, the former Army intelligence analyst who supplied thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks. For more on the controversy, KCBS Radio News Anchors Patti Reising and Jeff Bell spoke with Michael Risch, a professor of law at Villanova University specializing in cyber law.

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