justice department has confirmed that weeki leaks remains the target of a criminal investigation it comes as the head of the us senate intelligence committee said that the website's editor julian assange should be prosecuted for espionage a son just currently staying at ecuador's embassy in london waiting for a decision on his political asylum bit is laura smith reports. sanchez always maintained that what he fears the most is being extradited from sweden to america to face these charges of espionage and evidence is mounting with these renewed calls that we've heard this weekend from the head of the us senate intelligence oversight committee she joins these calls for us to be prosecuted for espionage she says she's senator dianne feinstein and she said that knowingly obtained and disseminated information which could cause injury to the u.s. has caused serious harm to national security and should be prosecuted accordingly she said that he shouldn't be protected by the first amendment which of course which of course protects free speech and is enshrined in the constitution he says he calls

sanction at the same time and i find all of this is very interesting because it shows number one that weeki leak we like the leaks is alive and well despite the best efforts of so many countries to shut it down and number two that as much as the mainstream media wants to distance itself from wiki leaks the syria files are the front page of every major newspaper in the world right now seems a little bit ironic they're also wanted to point out that the u.s. is not clean and that's not all that american based it's called up first reserve corp apparently they own forty five percent of this come out of unsold zero energy and that is subsidiary of mechanica this company that has directly been dealing with the syrian government so it shows that the u.s. is not exactly you know they don't have clean hands in this i mean they've been working with the italian company you're exactly right and it really points to the hypocrisy and why this is definitely in the public interest to know what these governments are doing syria under the assad regime during which gives e-mails were written you know experienc