Daily Mail: U.S. sends Britain a formal request to extradite Julian Assange as Justice Department bids to put him on trial for leaking military secrets
* The U.S. Justice Department sent a formal application on Thursday, it is claimed
* Assange faces charges under the Espionage Act over his WikiLeaks disclosures
* He was evicted from the Ecuadorian embassy and arrested by UK police in April
America has sent Britain a formal request to extradite Julian Assange in a bid to put him on trial for leaking military secrets.
Assange is due in a British court for an extradition hearing on Friday and is wanted across the Atlantic for what U.S. officials call 'one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States'.
Justice Department officials sent the official request on Thursday, meeting a 60-day deadline after the WikiLeaks founder was arrested on April 11, government sources told the Washington Post.
Assange is accused of working with former US army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 'unlawfully obtaining and disclosing classified documents related to the national defense'.
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