{"id":142696,"date":"2024-06-27T15:46:22","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=142696"},"modified":"2024-06-27T15:46:22","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:46:22","slug":"the-release-of-julian-assange-plea-deals-and-dark-legacies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2024\/06\/27\/the-release-of-julian-assange-plea-deals-and-dark-legacies\/","title":{"rendered":"The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><span class=\"post_author_intro\">BY<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"post_author\"><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/author\/jete6\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">BINOY KAMPMARK<\/a> Courtesy counterpunch<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-680x453.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"680\" height=\"453\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-680x453.jpg 680w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-945x630.jpg 945w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-500x333.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/samuel-regan-asante-YsUMSiI9-8-unsplash-600x400.jpg 600w\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-326539\">Image by Samuel Regan-Asante.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of Julian Assange seems determinative. His accusers and inquisitors will draw some delight at the plea deal reached between the WikiLeaks founder\u2019s legal team and the US Department of Justice. Others, such as former US Vice President, Mike Pence,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Mike_Pence\/status\/1805426412670570928\">thought<\/a>&nbsp;it unjustifiably lenient.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Alleged to have committed 18 offences, 17 novelly linked to the odious Espionage Act, the June 2020 superseding&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/press-release\/file\/1289641\/dl\">indictment<\/a>&nbsp;against Assange was a frontal assault on the freedoms of publishing and discussing classified government information. At this writing, Assange has arrived in Saipan, located in the US commonwealth territory of Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific, to face a&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/docket\/68881226\/united-states-v-assange\/\">fresh indictment<\/a>. It was one of Assange\u2019s conditions that he would not present himself in any court in the United States proper, where, with understandable suspicion, he might legally vanish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Full Report<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.counterpunch.org\/2024\/06\/26\/the-release-of-julian-assange-plea-deals-and-dark-legacies\/\">The Release of Julian Assange: Plea Deals and Dark Legacies &#8211; CounterPunch.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY\u00a0BINOY KAMPMARK Courtesy counterpunch Image by Samuel Regan-Asante. One of the longest sagas of political persecution is coming to its terminus. That is, if you believe in final chapters. Nothing about the fate of Julian Assange seems determinative. His accusers and inquisitors will draw some delight at the plea deal reached between the WikiLeaks founder\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142696\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}