Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange Reaches Agreement With DOJ to Avoid Prison in U.S.
“The guilty plea must be approved by a judge.”
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.”
JULIAN ASSANGE IS FREE
Julian Assange is free. He left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June, after having spent 1901 days there. He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a…
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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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How did he beat the rape charge in Sweden, by claiming he was moslem?
Here is an interesting overview https://www.pressenza.com/2020/03/how-swedish-authorities-invented-the-rape-charge-against-julian-assange/
It appears he was never charged with rape and it looks more like a setup to get him extradited back to the US. The first woman never alleged rape, she wanted Assange to be forced to be tested for HIV after consensual sex but when the cops started writing it up as a rape allegation she promptly left. The second ladies story is so full of holes that the police were forced to just keep the case open for a decade instead of closing and charging him as they didn’t want to just dismiss the entire thing at the insistence of England who was being leaned on by the US.
The whole thing was very odd right from the start and like Assange or not, he was being railroaded into an American jailcell from which he would never emerge.
Assange is a dirtbag spy but that “rape” charge in Sweden was a complete joke. The whole “rape” part was that he was nailing some chick he picked up in a bar without a rubber. When she asked him, mid-operation, if he was wearing a condom he allegedly said “I’m wearing you”. That was the so-called “rape”.
This guy was the darling of the left when he was dropping dimes that made Bush look bad. They even gave him the the Hollywood biopic treatment with a Benedict Cumberbatch playing Assange. Then, when he continued to report on government malfeasance, only this time in a way that made Obama look just as bad as Bush, the left disowned him. His story is a perfect example of the situational ethics and political expedience of America’s entertainment industry.
The left didnt disown him. They made him disappear, which I guess stands to reason given they are nothing more than the mouth pice of the Democratic party AND the CIA.
He never disappeared, Obama Inc. made him pariah; poisoning and betraying American interests while Bush was prez was okay, but doing so to Messiah Obama? Intolerable.
Bradley Manning should’ve been hanged, but instead he was pardoned, But no pardon for Assange, because Obama’s bruised ego was involved.
Part of Assange’s plea agreement should’ve included a good old fashioned horse whipping.
Manning should have been hanged, yes. Assange should receive a medal.
Which medal do you have in mind?
Weird. This has been dragging on for 10yrs but 3 weeks ago Trump said he would pardon Assange and suddenly Biden has a deal. Almost like a campaign ploy on the order of student loans, amnesty for illegals, new EO on the border and so on.
correct
anything to usurp trumps looking good/better
It was Trump, and his hand picked deep state administrators, who indicted Assange.
He made some kind of deal because both powers wanted to keep him quiet.
Hopefully with Trump as president he will tell all, I consider crimes of our government far more serious than Assange actions.
I’m not an Assange fan, but I’m glad he managed to avoid the clutches of the filthy, corrupt cesspool of US “justice.” No one deserves that.
The “filthy, corrupt cesspool” got exactly what it wanted. A guilty plea. And you can bet dollars to doughnuts that the DoJ will be watching Assange very carefully for even the slightest violation of the plea agreement so that they can summarily throw him in a federal prison on the original charges. Assange ain’t out of the woods and will have to watch his behavior for the rest of his life to prevent such an occurrence.
They can’t do that. You can be sure he will be staying well out of its jurisdiction, never taking a plane that lands in the USA, or that might be diverted to land there.
Whatever, Milhouse. If they can’t put him in jail then Assange better spend the rest of his life being very careful where he goes and who he associates with because he just might have an unfortunate and fatal “accident” if he annoys the wrong people at the wrong time in the wrong location. Just saying.
he made the deal in Saipan which last time I looked was under US Law.
“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.”
Offered “her” asylum?
So he doesn’t even have to come back to the US to plead? Sweet deal! He must have had Hunter’s original DoJ prosecution team.
and now you know why all the
“russian disinformation” chatter /push by the Clintonistas and their propaganda mouthpieces
email after emails from hillarys servers were exposed etc
HOW CAN A CRIMINAL SUCH AS ASSANGE be allowed to set his court date and where he will or wont appear????
b/c as a guy who knows where the bones/emails are buried he puts the Epsteing fear into the lefty
HOPE HIS FLIGHT ISNT SCREWED WITH BY EVIL LEFTY
ARKANSASCIDE ALWAYS LOOMS LARGE
his whole original push was to expose the bush admin
BUT THE OBAMAITES KNEW this would open them up to the world on how THEY TOO were handling affairs
NOT JUST OVERSEAS but here in the usa
so they wouldnt play ball and got the Swedes to help out by accusing Assange of some bs “r ape” charge
( he wouldnt use a condom screamed the protected liar against assange)
F: Are you wearing a condom?
A: I’m wearing you.
the “Secret” deal the lefty will hope to make with him…..
get trumps emails or pretend you also got trumps emails and “release” that info right before the election
This was a redux of the Pentagon Papers release by Daniel Ellsberg in 1971, Deep staters in the government who are enthralled by keeping secrets never learn the right lesson from these incidents.
What if the Judge wants additional jail time?
Assange is a spy – plain and simple. He should have been assassinated in the field and ended it all there.
The same is true for all of Wikileaks.
dont worry
hillary is working on it
So you are OK with someone like John Brennan as CIA director making that call? Maybe folks like Jake Sullivan or John Bolton in the ear of POTUS urging assassination?
That’s the reality, total ass clowns like those goons none of whom served a day in uniform ….except for Bolton who got a very low draft # and would likely have been drafted following the end of his student deferment so he joined the National Guard to avoid being sent to Vietnam. He at least had the self awareness to admit he was ashamed of his actions in his autobiography.
REPORT: Julian Assange spent $500k for his flight out of the UK to avoid landing on the American homeland after he was released from prison.
Assange will instead be landing on a remote U.S. island where he will plead guilty to the charges.
The island is the U.S. territory of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, about 1,800 miles from Australia.
“He has to front up to charges that have been brought under U.S. law,” said a professor at the University of Sydney’s law school.
Assange will have the U.S. federal court hearing on Wednesday morning on the remote island.
His wife suggested the $500k flight was paid for in debt so they will likely launch a fundraising campaign to pay it off.
Assange is headed for Australia where he will reunite with his family.