Posted on 06/24/2024 4:43:15 PM PDT by RandFan
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange will plead guilty to US criminal charges as part of a deal that allows him to go free, according to court documents.
Assange, 52, was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defence information.
For years, the US has argued that the Wikileaks files - which disclosed information about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars - endangered lives.
He has spent the last five years in a British prison, from where he has been fighting extradition to the US.
According to CBS, the BBC's US partner, Assange will spend no time in US custody and will receive credit for the time spent incarcerated in the UK. Before that, he had taken refuge in Ecuador's London embassy for seven years.
Assange will return to Australia, according to a letter from the justice department.
He and his lawyers had long claimed that the case against him was politically motivated.
In April, US President Joe Biden said that he was considering a request from Australia to drop the prosecution against Assange.
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Why would he pardon a deep state tool. Why didn’t Obama pardon him when he commuted Assange’s accessory “Chelsea Manning?”
Have you ever heard of Chelsea Manning?
Do you mean Chelsea Manning of the Dubuque Iowa Mannings?
Five Reasons that President Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
>a href="https://theweek.com/articles/673814/why-obama-commuted-chelsea-mannings-sentence">Why Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence [Anti-Trump Move]
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Obama may have been "motivated by humanitarian considerations" or a debt of gratitude to his LGBT supporters, CNN's Stephen Collinson suggests, or "he may also have reasoned that with President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, the chances of Manning winning release for years to come were slim."
But, whatever reasons he gives, it would be a mistake to take the Manning commutation as an isolated event. And it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see this as part of Obama's last-minute push to "baby-proof America before Trump takes over," in The Daily Show's arch phraseology.
o maybe pardoning Cartwright and commuting Manning's sentence is Obama's way of encouraging civil servants and people with access to blow the whistle on Trump like their country depended on it, even as his own administration prosecuted those who leaked national security secrets.
This is a huge victory for Obama and the deep state.
Five Reasons that President Obama Was Right to Commute Chelsea Manning’s Sentence
Why Obama commuted Chelsea Manning's sentence [Anti-Trump Move]
Excerpts:
Obama may have been "motivated by humanitarian considerations" or a debt of gratitude to his LGBT supporters, CNN's Stephen Collinson suggests, or "he may also have reasoned that with President-elect Donald Trump about to take office, the chances of Manning winning release for years to come were slim."
But, whatever reasons he gives, it would be a mistake to take the Manning commutation as an isolated event. And it wouldn't be too much of a stretch to see this as part of Obama's last-minute push to "baby-proof America before Trump takes over," in The Daily Show's arch phraseology.
o maybe pardoning Cartwright and commuting Manning's sentence is Obama's way of encouraging civil servants and people with access to blow the whistle on Trump like their country depended on it, even as his own administration prosecuted those who leaked national security secrets.
This is a huge victory for Obama and the deep state.
He will be flying to Australia after release. I would not be on that flight.
Excellent news. May he make it home safely.
If JA was a deep state tool why did he torpedo Hillary in 2016?
That’s a lie!
Klaus Schwab’s godson? oh the web they weave
Obama’s DOJ never charged him. Assange was indicted in 2018 by Trump’s DOJ.
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