Anonymous ID: f555e6 June 24, 2024, 4:31 p.m. No.21080119   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0137

>>21080083

 

BREAKING

 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has agreed to plead guilty to a felony charge related to his alleged role in one of the largest US government breaches of classified material, as part of a deal with the Justice Department that will allow him to avoid imprisonment in the United States, according to newly filed federal court documents.

 

Under the terms of the new agreement, Justice Department prosecutors will seek a 62-month sentence – which is equal to the amount of time Assange has served in a high-security prison in London while he fought extradition to the US. The plea deal would credit that time served, allowing Assange to immediately return to Australia, his native country.

 

The plea deal must still be approved by a federal judge.

 

Assange had faced 18 counts from a 2019 indictment for his alleged role in the breach that carried a max of up to 175 years in prison, though he was unlikely to be sentenced to that time in full.

 

Assange was being pursued by US authorities for publishing confidential military records supplied by former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in 2010 and 2011.

 

US officials alleged that Assange goaded Manning into obtaining thousands of pages of unfiltered US diplomatic cables that potentially endangered confidential sources, Iraq war-related significant activity reports and information related to Guantanamo Bay detainees.

 

President Joe Biden in recent months has alluded to a possible deal pushed by Australian government officials to return Assange to Australia.

 

FBI and Justice Department officials have opposed any deal that didn’t include a felony guilty plea by Assange, people briefed on the matter told CNN.

 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/06/24/politics/julian-assange-plea-deal-biden-administration/index.html

Anonymous ID: f555e6 June 24, 2024, 4:33 p.m. No.21080137   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>0145

>>21080119

 

Breaking

 

Julian Assange set to be released after reaching plea deal with US government

 

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty as part of a plea deal with the US Justice Department that which could see him walk free after five years in a British prison.

 

Assange was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, new court documents show.

 

The charges against him in the US stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during the first term of Barack Obama’s presidency.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-wikileaks-freed-us-b2568201.html