Biden admits US exploring legal pursuit of Assange

THE US Justice Department is exploring a legal pursuit of Julian Assange, said Vice President Joe Biden, who described the WikiLeaks founder as a dangerous “hi-tech terrorist.”

“We’re looking at that right now,” Biden told NBC’s Sunday talk show Meet the Press, but he stopped short of elaborating on just how the administration could act against the head of the organisation whose release of thousands of classified US diplomatic cables has enraged Washington.

“I’m not going to comment on that process.”