An email in the Stratfor documents states “We have a sealed indictment on Assange.“

On Fox News, Bob Beckel said “A dead man can’t leak stuff. This guy’s a traitor, he’s treasonous, and he has broken every law of the United States. And I’m not for the death penalty, so … there’s only one way to do it: illegally shoot the son of a bitch.”

In a press conference about an investment fraud operation, Attorney General Eric Holder stated that there is an “active, ongoing criminal investigation” into WikiLeaks.

Attorney General Jeff Sessions told journalists that DoJ is “stepping up...efforts on all leaks” and “whenever a case can be made, we will seek to put some people in jail”

Senator Joe Lieberman told Fox News that "To me the New York Times has committed at least an act of, at best, bad citizenship, but whether they have committed a crime is a matter of discussion for the justice department." and that "It sure looks to me that Assange and WikiLeaks have violated the Espionage Act."

When asked about WikiLeaks in an interview, Vice President Biden said that Assange is “closer to being a high tech terrorist than, than the Pentagon Papers.”

Reuters reported that the WikiLeaks grand jury investigation had been expanded to include the Vault 7 publication.

In this speech, Pompeo goes on a tirade against WikiLeaks, which he describes as “a non-state hostile intelligence service often abetted by state actors like Russia”

Multiple media organizations reported that the DoJ is considering filing charges against WikiLeaks, both in response to recent leaks like Vault 7 and older publications like Cablegate. Additionally, investigators claimed to CNN that they “found what they believe was proof that WikiLeaks played an active role in helping Edward Snowden, a former NSA analyst, disclose a massive cache of classified documents”.