US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange

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US reportedly considering plea deal offer for Julian Assange​

Wed 20 Mar 2024 17.59 EDT

The US government is reported to be considering a plea deal offer to Julian Assange, allowing him to admit to a misdemeanor, but his lawyers say they have been “given no indication” Washington intends to change its approach.

The Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday that the US justice department was looking at ways to cut short the long London court battle of the WikiLeaks founder against extradition to the US on espionage charges for the publication 14 years ago of thousands of classified US documents related to the Afghanistan and Iraq wars.

The report said a plan under consideration would be to drop the current 18 charges under the Espionage Act, if Assange pleaded guilty to mishandling classified documents, a misdemeanor offence. Assange would be able to enter the plea remotely from London and would likely be free soon after the deal was agreed to, as he has already spent five years in custody in the UK.

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View from outside London's High Court as its ruling on whether WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will be able to appeal against extradition from Britain to the United States is handed down.

 
So if the High Court rules he has run out of appeals, they stick him in a metal tube and hurl him across the ocean to Ummerika?
 

https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/us/u...-until-us-rules-out-death-penalty/ar-BB1kyCC7
 
They are going to make him say it was Trump's fault.
 
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