[lxn]

I haven't read the charges. I'm not even sure if they are public. They were also changed a few times.

Based on what I read (might be biased) he's charged for helping Chelsea Manning getting the documents (hacking) and publishing the documents before they were fully redacted to remove names and things that could help identify people - to protect the safety of people involved (common practice). This is debatable because he worked hard to redact name (together with the big newspapers), but other people published the raw documents before him and in the end Wiki Leaks release raw documents as well.

All this is pieced together based on Craig Murray's blog [1], which is often flagged here on HN.

[1] https://www.craigmurray.org.uk

[dhimes]

And Dick Cheney was never even charged with outing Valerie Plame.