Julian Assange submission, the United States confirmed its "sensitive, ongoing law enforcement proceeding into the Wikileaks matter." On 13 April 2017, CIA Director Mike Pompeo called WikiLeaks "a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia." On 20 April 2017, US officials told CNN that they were preparing to file formal charges against Assange. United States prosecutors accidentally revealed the existence of criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in an unrelated ongoing sex crime case in the Eastern District of Virginia. Assange visited Sweden in August 2010. During his visit, he became the subject of sexual assault allegations
UK–US extradition treaty of 2003 about the level of proof required being less to extradite from the UK to the US rather than vice versa. Among other provisions Part 2 of the Act: Extradition to category 2 territories (non-European Arrest warrant territories) removed the requirement on the USA to provide "prima facie" evidence in extraditions from the UK, requiring instead only "reasonable suspicion". This was necessary to redress the previous imbalance against the USA under the 1870 Act, as the UK did not have to provide the more onerous "prima facie" evidence to extradite from the USA. The requirement for the UK is to show