Julian Assange Released, But the Leak and Extortion Era Began Long Ago

Julian Assange Released, But the Leak and Extortion Era Began Long Ago

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been freed in the UK after serving over five years in Belmarsh prison for what the U.S. government described as the “largest compromises of classified information” in its history.

In 2019, U.S. authorities charged Assange with 18 criminal counts for conspiring with former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning to obtain and publish classified information. He has been in a British prison for …

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