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The deal - which will see him plead guilty to one charge - is expected to be finalised in a court in the Northern Mariana Islands on Wednesday, 26 June.
The remote Pacific islands, a US commonwealth, are much closer to Australia than US federal courts in Hawaii or the continental US.
originally posted by: bastion
Great news, long overdue and hopefully him and family can get compensation for inhumane treatment.
a reply to: angelchemuel
Yeah I think it was meant to be the wikileaks files pending publication that hadn't been put through the redaction process to remove sensitive intel like names that don't meet public domain criteria.
US troops got less time in jail for repeatedly gang raping and killing 14 year old girl, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi and her family and other wear crimes.
originally posted by: ARM19688
I wonder if the usual suicide will occur? Shotgun to the back of the head? Seems like a big climb down from the USA. And all for what? The truth.
CIA officials under Trump discussed assassinating Julian Assange â report
Mike Pompeo and officials requested âoptionsâ for killing Assange following WikiLeaksâ publication of CIA hacking tools, report says.
Some senior officials inside the CIA and the Trump administration went as far as to request âsketchesâ or âoptionsâ for killing Assange. âThere seemed to be no boundaries,â a former senior counterterrorist official was quoted as saying.
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Mahogani
Oh please.
We know the only reason it was done here and now is because of the polling.
But don't let that stop you from spewing your water bucket all over the place.
originally posted by: Mahogani
originally posted by: JinMI
a reply to: Mahogani
Oh please.
We know the only reason it was done here and now is because of the polling.
But don't let that stop you from spewing your water bucket all over the place.
Interesting.
So you're saying that if Trump decided to free Assange, instead of wanting to arrest him, he may have won in 2020?
hindsight is 20/20, right?