Can some legal beagle help me out? I'm seriously confused as to how the United States has any jurisdiction in the matter of Julian Assange.

He is not an American citizen and thus owes us no loyalty.

He was not inside the US at the time he took the actions he is accused of committing.

While Bradley Manning is fully within US jurisdiction, Assange never has been.

Even if Assange encouraged Manning to do what Manning had already approached him about doing, Assange never touched the files directly. He only took what was freely offered him.

For that, he is being assassinated on the installment plan. I don't understand how our government has a legal leg to stand on here, except the sort of law that requires you wot cock your head just so while riding a horse at 40 mph while mounted backwards through poison ivy.