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zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago

‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US

www.aljazeera.com

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‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US

www.aljazeera.com

zephyreks@lemmy.mlM to World News@lemmy.ml · 1 year ago
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Assange to plead guilty to one charge of espionage and return home to Australia after decades fighting US extradition.
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    Sounds like they got what they needed from him

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      Instilled fear in potential future whistleblowers.

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      What do you mean?

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        They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too.

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        He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete “secret documents”, whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal

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