Of course there is no legal recourse for that. But that isn't even what happened here. Assange, who is NOT A U.S. citizen, received U.S. material and published said material while outside of the U.S. If he hacked a computer while in Sweden that was at Langley then you have a case. He didn't do that. What we have is globalist-communist over reach by the hegemonic U.S. government. As a U.S. citizen I find that disturbing.
I don't know that we had any authority in terms of law enforcement. We did what we did with our military. We did have legal authority to get al-Alawki as a U.S. citizen while in Yemen but then we just droned him and a few weeks later his 15 year old U.S. citizen son. Proud are you middleview?
1. The Assange case will be tried in a US civil court. They will certainly have to prove that his involvement in the theft of those documents was only as the recipient of them. If he conspired with the source to help him extract those documents, therefore making him complicit in the crime...than what say you, counselor?
2. It was the CIA that conducted the strike...not the military. Yes, we droned Awalaki...because he'd participated in a crime attempting to murder the passengers of a plane bound for the US. He was in an area of the world without a functioning legal system. We had no reasonable means of taking him into custody. His son was killed because he was in an SUV with a bunch of Al Qaeda fighters. He should have taken public transportation.
There have been several accounts of Abdulrahman al-Awlaki's death. One is that he was having dinner at some restaurant, another is that he was in an SUV...all say he was with Samir Kahn and five other Al Qaeda fighters.