▲ 382 ▼ ‘Julian Assange is free’: Wikileaks founder freed in deal with US (www.aljazeera.com) submitted 2 years ago by zephyreks@lemmy.ml [M] to c/worldnews@lemmy.ml 31 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 25 points 2 years ago (1 child) Sounds like they got what they needed from him permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) What do you mean? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal permalink fedilink source parent
[–] tacosplease@lemmy.world 1 point 2 years ago (2 children) What do you mean? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too. permalink fedilink source parent [–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal permalink fedilink source parent
[–] zik@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) They wanted to make an example of someone. His thumbing his nose at the US government was well publicised, so they made their revenge on him very public too. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 1 point 2 years ago He pleaded guilty and agreed to delete "secret documents", whatever the hell that would be, as part of the deal permalink fedilink source parent