The Assange plea deal is the June 2024 agreement under which Julian Assange pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage, was processed in Saipan, and flew home to Australia.[1][2] John Kiriakou, who made three trips to Iceland to strategize with WikiLeaks, relays the reform attorney Chip Gibbons’s argument that because it was a plea to conspiracy rather than espionage, future prosecutors cannot use it to leverage the indictment of another journalist.[3] He notes its odd terms: Assange had to swear an affidavit that WikiLeaks had purged all unpublished Chelsea Manning material — of which there was none — while the CIA never demanded anything about Vault 7 be purged; and he is barred from a U.S. green card for 25 years.[4][5][6]
Assange plea deal
The 2024 agreement under which Julian Assange pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit espionage, was processed in Saipan, and returned to Australia; John Kiriakou details its odd terms — a Chelsea Manning purge affidavit and a 25-year green-card ban — and the debate over whether it sets a precedent.
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- ↑ News Beat, 2024-07-29 — 13:29 on YouTube · Transcript
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- ↑ News Beat, 2024-07-29 — 18:51 on YouTube · Transcript
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