Assange and DOJ Exploring Guilty Plea to End 14-Year Drama

Thursday, March 21, 2024

The U.S. Justice Department is considering whether to allow Julian Assange to plead guilty to a reduced charge of mishandling classified information, according to people familiar with the matter, opening up the possibility of a deal that could eventually result in his release from a British jail.

Posted by sentinel at 02:32 PM | 13 COMMENTS | permalink

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At this point, I look at Mr Assange as a pawn in the apparent Trump-Russia coordinated effort to release emails.

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-20 08:27 PM

It's about damn time. The way they went after Assange was a fiasco that backfired badly.

History will record him as a political prisoner.

#2 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-20 08:27 PM

@#2 ... History will record him as a political prisoner. ...

I don't know if I would go that far.

He seems to be an intelligent person to me.

As such, I'd say he knew exactly what he was doing, and why.

But, did the proposed punishment meet the crime?

That's where I have issues.

"Political prisoner?" That seems more as a label to avoid the actual crime performed.

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-20 10:30 PM

Being a political prisoner is not mutually exclusive from having committed a crime. Like I said, it was the way they went after him, even while they were hesitant to charge him with the crime for political reasons.

#4 | Posted by sentinel at 2024-03-20 11:17 PM

@#4 ... Being a political prisoner is not mutually exclusive from having committed a crime. ...

"Political prisoner" is tried in the court of public opinion, as opposed to being tried in a Court of Law.

The standards are different.

#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-03-20 11:44 PM

Assange should have made his James Bond super secret villains lair harder to find or at least more impenetrable.

nypost.com

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2024-03-21 02:43 PM

#6 | Posted by donnerboy

I had no idea that existed not to mention as Wikileaks HQ. Where did the money come from for that? I thought it was a really small operation. Inquiring Minds...

Even if he did have a noble idea up front, which I doubt (I think it was all about $$$), he was just a useful tool of Putin in the end.

#7 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-03-21 05:43 PM

Ah... He just colocated some servers in it.

#8 | Posted by GalaxiePete at 2024-03-21 05:45 PM

It's one thing to look through classified information and find instances of possible government coverup, and only release those instances. It's quite another thing to recklessly release the entire batch of classified information, compromising the lives of intelligence sources and airing out politicians' dirty laundry communications. Assange is a pr!(k

#9 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-21 07:18 PM

"compromising the lives of intelligence sources"

I guess I missed that.
Serious question: Who died because of Assange?

#10 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-03-21 07:21 PM

www.bbc.com

It's US govt lawyers' word, so it'll be dismissed outright by Assange apologists

#11 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-22 11:17 PM

Also, there's no way that he carefully combed through hundreds of thousands of classified documents to make sure he wasn't releasing anything that might endanger anyone or screw up international relations. He's a POS, which is why tankies love him

#12 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-22 11:20 PM

apnews.com

Wikileaks documents must've been planted in Bin Laden's compound

#13 | Posted by hamburglar at 2024-03-22 11:22 PM

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