Wikileaks founder Julian Assange reached a deal with President Joe Biden’s administration to avoid prison time in the U.S.
Assange agreed to “plead guilty to one count of conspiring to obtain and disclose information related to the national defense in a federal court in Saipan, in the Northern Mariana Islands.”
From Fox News:
The guilty plea must be approved by a judge. Assange spent five years in a British prison fighting extradition to the United States. He previously spent seven years of refuge in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London after Swedish authorities sought his arrest on rape allegations.Assange, 52, will be sentenced to time served of 62 months, the equivalent to the prison time he spent in the United Kingdom.
The High Court in London granted Assange bail. He went to London Stansted Airport.
Assange boarded a plane for Australia from the airport.
In 2010, Wikileaks and Assange made international news when they published tens of thousands of documents related to the U.S. in Iraq and Afghanistan. The documents included details about Guantanamo Bay prisoners.
In 2012, Assange sought asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London to halt extradition to Sweden on sexual assault allegations. The embassy already offered her asylum in 2010.
Assange could not leave the embassy at all, facing arrest for missing a bail hearing.
Wikileaks and Assange made another bombshell in 2016 when they posted documents and emails from the DNC and other Democrats, showing an obvious bias toward failed Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton over Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT).
The embassy revoked Assange’s asylum in 2019 for his alleged behavior inside the building.
The British police arrested him and placed him in jail. The U.S. also revealed a 2018 indictment of Assange, charging him with conspiracy to commit computer intrusion regarding his leak of the Iraq and Afghanistan documents.
I’m hoping for more leaks exposing corruption.
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