Australian Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce has called for the United States government to drop its pursuit of the extradition of jailed Australian WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange, who is currently in jail in the United Kingdom, faces being brought to America after a British court ruled he could be extradited to face charges of an alleged conspiracy to obtain and disclose classified information which revealed allegations of war crimes by the U.S. military in Afghanistan and Iraq. In an op-ed for the Sydney Morning Herald on Tuesday, Joyce called for the Wikileaks founder to either face the British courts for the alleged crimes or be sent back to Australia. The deputy prime minister also questioned why Assange could now be extradited when his crimes were not a breach of Australian laws and was not committed in the United States. “Assange did not steal any U.S. secret files; U.S. citizen Chelsea Manning …