‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US
‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US
Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
Sounds like they got what they needed from him
What do you mean?
They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.
He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal
How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn't he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.
He didn't leak, he published.
That's what's so concerning about the case. The USA tried to persecute an Australian citizen working out of the EU for publishing information.
If precedent was set they could kidnap anyone from sovereign countries based on US law
He might have been epsteined though
As a terrorist they could torture and kill him without covering anything up.
IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.
No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.
I mean, I was so sure they wanted to incarcerate him until he commits suicide!
Wow
HANDS OFF
ASS
It's not over yet.
Julian should have never been jailed.