Plea deal. Will head to Australia as soon as he is set free on Wed. This is big for whichever side you sit in for this.

🚨Breaking News: Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the US allowing him to go free.

Via: NBC pic.twitter.com/ppIqRFNjTe

— The Calvin Coolidge Project (@TheCalvinCooli1) June 24, 2024

I've never really understood this situation exactly nor have I paid a lot of attention but where has he been staying all this time?

He better hire some very good security

annie88 said:

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I've never really understood this situation exactly nor have I paid a lot of attention but where has he been staying all this time?

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Waiting extradition in UK for 5 years.

annie88 said:

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I've never really understood this situation exactly nor have I paid a lot of attention but where has he been staying all this time?

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He was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for several years. He's been in British custody for the last two(?) years.

It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

aggiehawg said:

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annie88 said:

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I've never really understood this situation exactly nor have I paid a lot of attention but where has he been staying all this time?

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He was in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London for several years. He's been in British custody for the last two(?) years.

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I do remember something about an embassy, so he really lived there like couldn't even go outside?

And he's been in jail the last few years. Interesting.

Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

He gon get droned.

Tucker better hurry if he wants an interview

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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I have no trust from what the government has said about either Assange or Snowden. I don't think they are innocent but I know the folks who have been after them sure as hell aren't either. Like the earlier post, I don't know what to believe. It makes me just want everything out there and let the chips fall.

Did not expect it to happen like this..

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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Well, you were on here vociferously condemning Biden when he got 13 Marines killed so we know that you're not a liar!!!

BREAKING: WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange boards a plane after being released from prisonpic.twitter.com/7XuCBYkLat

— ALX 🇺🇸 (@alx) June 25, 2024

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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He's a journalist. This is a free speech issue.

It's not a good thing for the government to threaten people to withhold information. It is pretty obvious where history will stand on Assange. It won't be where you are.

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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Quote:

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The US counter-intelligence official who led the Pentagon's review into the fallout from the WikiLeaks disclosures of state secrets told the Bradley Manning sentencing hearing on Wednesday that no instances were ever found of any individual killed by enemy forces as a result of having been named in the releases.

Brigadier general Robert Carr, a senior counter-intelligence officer who headed the Information Review Task Force that investigated the impact of WikiLeaks disclosures on behalf of the Defense Department, told a court at Fort Meade, Maryland, that they had uncovered no specific examples of anyone who had lost his or her life in reprisals that followed the publication of the disclosures on the internet. "I don't have a specific example," he said.

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/31/bradley-manning-sentencing-hearing-pentagon

Or if you prefer to read it yourself, page 42 here: https://ia903002.us.archive.org/22/items/usa-v-manning-third-party-transcripts/07-31-13-PM-session.pdf

I place zero trust, zero, in anything the government or the alphabet agencies say about this guy or anyone else. Zero.

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Julian Assange, on his leaking of the names of hundreds of Afghan civilian informants into the hands of the Taliban:

"Well, they're informants. So, if they get killed, they've got it coming to them. They deserve it." https://t.co/80aHPCX1tP

— Kareem Rifai 🌐 (@KareemRifai) June 24, 2024

Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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Lies.

I'm not so sure about Assange, but I think in Snowden's case, it's clear you can betray your government without necessarily betraying your country. There's so much spin about both of them its hard to know what to believe though.

RIP Assange

Start here.



"Chelsea" Manning sent vid to Assange...

TAMUallen said:

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RIP Assange

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Yep - I'll be shocked if he makes it 60 days. Australia.....they're not going to keep you safe there bro. What are you thinking?

Our govt was really after him when wikileaks released all of the hillary emails before the 2016 election. That was when he was in the embassy. Never heard that much about him after that election.

My plane landed in DC & I just heard Julian Assange will soon be free due to a deal.

His liberation is great news, but it’s a travesty that he’s already spent so much time in jail.

Obama, Trump, & Biden should have never pursued this prosecution.

Pardon Snowden & Free Ross now

— Thomas Massie (@RepThomasMassie) June 25, 2024

Massie.

Snowden should definitely be pardoned.

Well we invaded a sovereign nation without cause. Where are those WMDs? Still looking for them?

Maybe, just maybe we have very evil people running this country. And maybe, just maybe that's been the case longer than any of us want to admit.

What's the Iraqi causality numbers up to now?

There's a good Aussie biopic about Assange that came out probably 10+ years ago

HollywoodBQ said:

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There's a good Aussie biopic about Assange that came out probably 10+ years ago

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Was it ever translated into English?

Gordo14 said:

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Tramp96 said:

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It's amazing what the years have done to me. For the longest I was pro-US govt and anti-Assange on this deal. I was a patriotic American who despised Assange for being a traitor and releasing this information. To some degree I still am if any of the information released has endangered innocent American lives.

But now my position has changed. The America I was so adamantly defending in this deal was not the America I thought it was. Our deep, submerged state bureaucracy is the traitor. The media and entertainment industrial complex has partnered with the Left in our government to subvert our laws and weaken our country.

I hope Assange is vindicated. I hope he survives this.

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Assange directly and deliberately got a lot of good people killed. But I watch too many conspiracy videos about the deep state, qanon posts, etc. and now I think he's actually a good guy actually.

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Julian Assange struck a plea deal and will go free! I am overjoyed. He's a generational hero.

The bad news is that he had to plea guilty to conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense info. Which means the US security state succeeded in criminalizing journalism and…

— Robert F. Kennedy Jr (@RobertKennedyJr) June 24, 2024

He wasn't near the Capitol on J6, he good.

Hacking conspiracy isn't journalism.

MiamiHopper said:

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Hacking conspiracy isn't journalism.

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Assange didn't hack anything. He exposed corruption and refused to disclose his sources

Anything to expose government corruption is a good thing in the long run. No matter the cost.