I thought Assange had said “pardon” ... went back & looked at Wiki tweets & it did say clemency so I’m wrong on that.
The news media has not helped the confusion & here’s one example (foxnews no less!) ... probably why I thought it was “pardon”:
Headline: Assange would agree to extradition if Obama pardons Chelsea Manning, WikiLeaks says
Body of story: WikiLeaks said Thursday that its founder Julian Assange will agree to be extradited to the U.S. if President Barack Obama grants clemency to Chelsea Manning.
Trusting reporting has its perils.
Having said that I think a lot of what we interpret as bias is simply bad reporting and editing.
Too bad so sad. Did they get it in writing all nice n legal? What? No....they didn’t?
Good for Assange. Nothing but an idiot would agree to come to the USA to get locked away in Quantico to wait for a kangaroo FISA court proceeding with a predetermined outcome of most of your life.