Julian Assange agrees to guilty plea in exchange for release, ending years-long standoff
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Rachel Maddow shares breaking news that Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has reached a deal with the Justice Department to plead guilty to illegally obtaining and disclosing national security material in exchange for release from a British prison.
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I've been smiling all day and so glad that at last he's heading home. A true Australian hero.
Hero!
Should never have been locked up.
Why do you think he was locked up? Why do you think he should NOT have been locked up?
@@alastairbarkley6572 All he did was embarrass and expose criminals.
Unfortunately, those same criminals hold power
@@yt.personal.identification Which is why Julian will "commit suicide." I can't be the only one who expects that.
@@akrenwinkle That will make him a martyr.
They fear him already and won't want to do that.
@@yt.personal.identification Nope. Most people have no idea who he is, what he did, why he's a hero, and why he'll wind up a "suicide."
Guilty of telling the truth... Go Julian!!!! Go home xx
Guilty of sexually assaulting 2 Swedish women.
Wasn't up to him....
The only crime he was found guilty of in the UK was bail jumping. Why do you think he was locked up? For bail jumping!!
I didn't think I would live to see this day.
Pardon Edward Joseph Snowden! 😂
I'm not sure Julian thought he'd live to see this day!!
@moonkey: They are both guilty of espionage. Snowden is actually guilty of treason. Neither of them deserve a pardon or a plea deal.
@moonkey: They are both guilty of espionage. Snowden is actually guilty of tréas. Neither of them deserve a pardon or a plea deal.
@@MorpheusOne are you CIA?
INjustice for Julian Assange : they forced him to sign this crap.
He should never have been imprisoned in the first place !
JustUS fully exposed; not a pretty picture. Press freedom??
Maybe Mr Trump will fix that. 2024!!!
He was imprisoned for UK bail jumping - a crime in the UK and in many other jurisdictions. He also left his bail guarantors to take responsibility for his jumping bail. What a disloyal slimeball! He was then sentenced to a fifty week term of imprisonment - a punishment within the UK sentencing guidelines for bail jumping. Whilst serving his sentence, the US government applied for his extradition. The US extradition request was consistent with English law, international law and the existing US/UK extradition treaty. He MIGHT have been eligible for bail during the extradition process except that he had a criminal conviction for, er, bail jumping. So, whadya know? He didn't get bail!!
For what reason d'you say he should never have been imprisoned? Doesn't sound like you understand, fella.
@@alastairbarkley6572 yes anyone that shows that a tyrant gov. Is and has been lying about EVERYTHING, should be imprisoned for LIFE what a traitor!!!!
Please do not respond. You are One of THEM.
Nope, trump should be!
Come home mate you are a hero of the truth and an absolute legend. we love you.
Glad to see this is finally resolved.
Wouldn’t have happened without the support of many people and mainly the Australian government. Shame they didn’t stand up earlier
It's been so cruel.
Convicted of "journalism".
Yes. MSNBC and all the other msm don’t get that Julian is was journalist really do. They just read their script and pick up a check
Good thing that’s in quotes. He was only a delivery boy.
@@persuasivebarrier2419 Yes, the messenger.
Woodward and Bernstein are journalists. David Halberstam was a journalist.
Jules is a treasonous POS worthy of MAGA and it's completely misguided insolence.
@@persuasivebarrier2419ie a journalist - would have been better if he just blathered some nonsense words over the redacted release? Does that make it extra Free Speech?
Guilty of what?
Telling the truth?
Guilty of exposing American criminal lies
Disclosing national secrets IS a crime. You can argue if it is a good law or bad law, nevertheless, he is guilty of that.
@@moonkey537 Not in civilized countries that have whistle blower protection laws.
Yes, in this corrupt globalist run world the truth is the biggest enemy.
@@moonkey537 So, USA being a worlwide terrorist organization is classified as national secret, so lets protect the status quo? Since when it is secret for anyone with at least half functioning brain?
Welcome home 🇦🇺 about bloody time!!
Thank God and his wife Stella for standing by Julian all those years! He should be elated and proud to have such a devoted wife! God bless you both and Welcome home!!
Home? Wasn’t she born in South Africa? Maybe they could both go there….
@@Helensrant Yeah, they could, but they are not stupid 😮
“Thank god…🥴”
He sexually assaulted 2 women in Sweden.
“Thank god…”
Stella should meet the women he abused.
@@Acer_Maximinusyou mean the ones who recanted their accusations? She did, look it up.
Thank God for Julian Assange this is finally over and put to rest. Godspeed.
😂😂😂
@@mysticalmargaret6105
🤡🥾👅
Good for him.
Just go hone and live your life Julian
I love how American media has to point out on a map to Americans where the US is.
Many don’t know. Too many college kids don’t know what “from the river to the sea” means. A march, a protest, gotta join, “gotta have something to tell my grandkids. “
Greetings. Hope US will honour his freedom, he suffered enough... It's time for Julian Assange spends quality time among his family, parent's & friends. Gratitude🙏 from occupied Armenia/Artsakh 🇦🇲
Until he’s home with his family it’s hard to believe ❤
Wonderful news. Will watch closely.
Hero
Thank goodness. Whistle blowers should be protected✨🇺🇸✨
They remain unprotected.
Keep him safe! I’m ashamed at our government for locking him up in my country 😢
You must say you are guilty to be released. Strange
😢SAD‼️‼️
@@MovieChannelMaliki typical US tyranny, tho he isn't american
@@larkrake1 yep but why Australia was just silent like a B****?
Trump says he is innocent and is still walking free. Strange that
@@helencarandreou7368 money and secrets 🤣
It's about time Assange was released.
Yeah, so he can abuse more women!🙄
@Acer_Maximinus never happened
@@Acer_Maximinus Stop thinking like a ten year old.
@@Acer_Maximinus Grow up ya idgit.
@@albertsordi9351
“…like a ten year old🥴”
Yeah, like when he hid in a foreign embassy from the police for years.
Like a bad kid who hides from their parents.
Because that’s what innocent people do.🙄
Julian is guilty of nothing
Well, there ARE those who will claim that this Australian citizen is a traitor to the U.S.A.
smdh
Wrong.
Assange became a conduit for the illegal disclosure of national and international security documentation. And, in doing so, he became an international _`sceimhlitheoireachta`._
Wrong.
Assange became a conduit for the illegal disclosure of national and international security documentation. And, in doing so, he became an international _`sceimhlitheoireachta`._
Assange became a conduit for the illegal disclosure of national and international security documentation.
Snowden should be free also
So he plead giulty o journalism?
He is a publisher, people bring stories to wiki, they vet it then publish, none claim to be journalists
@larkrake1 publishing is protected speech and also journalism.
you're not the one locked up in Belmarsh for years
Espionage is not journalism.
@@quark12000 Stop being deliberately obtuse. It's clearly journalism. Other journalists would also publish classified material if it is handed to them and they deem that it's in the public interest.
Excellent news for assange
Assange is Hero,
No he’s not
@daRich_X No he’s not. I can do this all day 🤷♀️
@@Helensrantyou can however youll remain ignorant. But that ok, your good of that part.
@@Helensrant 🤷♂
@@Helensrant Please enlighten us
Assange, Manning, Snowden and other whistleblowers should be praised, not charged.
Exposing war crimes is not a crime.
you can follow journalistic rules and not put lives in danger while disclosing war crimes. Nevertheless I am very happy he is free. Best news so far today 🙂
@jutswheezie Who exactly did he put in danger ? You are just parroting the propaganda
@@jutswheezie he never put anyone in danger
@@larkrake1 Did he not disclose information on informants and people who cooperate with US Army and e.g. the Iraq government?? Or same in Afghanistan - making these people subject to imprisonment and being murdered?? Did he not disclose methods unfiltered of how the CIA fights Terror and are terrorist attacks not a threat to us all??? A true journalist who actually does the hard work follows some ethics and does not disclose all information provided to him unfiltered.
@@Anastasia-nn5fy Did he not disclose information on informants and people who cooperate with US Army and e.g. the Iraq government?? Or same in Afghanistan - making these people subject to imprisonment and being murdered?? Did he not disclose methods unfiltered of how the CIA fights Terror and are terrorist attacks not a threat to us all??? A true journalist who actually does the hard work follows some ethics and does not disclose all information provided to him unfiltered.
God Bless Julian Assange 🤝🇺🇲
Narcissists don’t believe in gods.
🙄🙄🙄
Now for Snowden!
Let him rot. He sold out his own country....and for WHAT???🤔
Not going to happen. He chose to become a Russian citizen in 2022, at the invitation of Putin. Putin is never generous without receiving something in return. Snowden has publicly said how happy he is in Russia, so let's let him stay there...
You'll have to ask his sponsor Putin if he's allowed out to play or open his mouth.
The wally.
@@mrkeogh Russia Derangement Syndrome.
Hooray 🎉❤
He has been treated shamefully and disgracefully. This is not justice. Justice would be him being set free without any plea deal AND receiving millions in compensation.
I'm sure his journey of recovery now will be hard and long. I send him and his loved ones so much love ❤
😂😂😂😂😂😂
Yeah but can the CIA and Mossad assassins and renditioners be guaranteed not to be there on Saipan?
Saipan for many years was a CIA training base. Still is to some degree. Mossad is also present on Saipan and Guam.
@@albertsordi9351 They would make a martyr of him at their own cost. Not saying it wont happen but I dont think it will happen until a few elections in the US and Australia are over. Both left wing Governments are running out of ideas.
This smacks of desperation to me plus Trump said last month he would release him.
Can’t believe this is all he gets from his fellow, supposedly journalists. A man who did nothing wrong versus the corrupt media. Let me guess he will accidentally in a live himself in no time.
So much ignorance...
@@Lisa-pl6gv Yes I would say that sums you up perfectly.
Some good news on a grim day
I believe he, Snowden, and Chelsea Manning should be left alone and pardoned. Is Trump paying any price and he stole from the White House?
I believe the same! The way our government treated Chelsea Manning is appalling. Literal torture.
Are you saying we have two tiers of justice??! No way! I refuse to believe that.
When you put it that way, these accused individuals should run for the presidency against Trump. They are way more qualified than Trump .
@@gardener6904
In your world it’s ok if someone else does the same exact thing, cough cough Biden. Keep clutching your pearls.
@@gardener6904answer the question. Does your hypocrisy have any limitations or is it blue no matter who.
Dear Australia: Please take back Assange and while you're at it, take back the Murdochs too. Thank you.
No. You can keep the Murdochs. We'll happily take Julian back though.
Australia says….NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
To the lot of them!
@@cecilelaforce3686
Dear Australia...👈😁...
You're farther south than
Mississippi, yeah ???...
Do your black water fountains
use the same stuff as Mississippi
does, and do your parliament
members reflect what that's doing
to them ???...
Thank GOD for our 2A...👈😁👍
No backsies. They're all yours.
@@jenniferbailey5914
Dear Australia...👈😁....
Do you murder your black unborn
babies at the same rate as the
US, and Israel ???...
Good to hear.
I don't know what's going on with the United States of America.
They will blindly go along with what ever the two party system tells them. Most Americans are childish partisons who will create double standards just to dump on those they disagree with politically.
Abusing every avenue for power and profit.
It has always lied and condemn truth
Business as usual.
Chris Hedges can explain it to you.
Sad that he had to cop to anything other than jounalism for the US Just-US Department to save face.
People that bash Assange should actually visit WikiLeaks
These people have a lot in common. They seem to be American patriots that believe in all the American wars that have taken place.
I loved Wikileaks and was his strong supporter.. until he started to see Russia as a good guy.. Bush’s war in Iraq should never happen, indeed, he should fix Afghanistan and should be responsible for everything what happened after in both countries.. but to don’t see Russia as even much worse player on global scale, and presented her as an alternative, while helping Trump to win!!, was totally insane perception by Assange, and look where we are now.. on the bring of global fascism because of that.
@@paneko1Bro everybody know america is a snake whereas russia stay with its allies
@@Final._.boss._.0
As an old lady, who was born in Eastern Europe and lived in a satellite state of Russia, under its dictatorship, for 27 yrs, I can assure you that you have no idea what are you talking about and what is dictatorship. Russia didn’t have a one single day of democracy and dictator Putin is in perpetual wars since nineties, since he was only Yeltsin deputy, because he wants to be like Peter the Great, and wants all the Soviet Union back. West opened its door to him, but in his historical speech in Munich 2007, he made clear he sees expansion of democracy and NATO in Eastern Europe as a threat, which he’ll fight back and will not have any liberalism in Russia. After Georgia, he then attacked Europe via Ukraine, even though Russia signed Budapest Memorandum in 1994, proclaiming Ukraine’s independence, for which Ukraine had to give world’s third biggest nuclear stockpile. That’s for the great ally Russia is.
@@BobbyDazzler888
Assange and Wikileaks never brought anything from Putin’s presidency, no dead journalists, no dead tens of ‘accidentally’ killed people from Putin’s inner circle, no Russian Prigozhin Wagner Group in African dictatorships and Sputnik propaganda there, no atrocities from Putin’s almost 30 yrs of perpetual wars or Ukraine. On contrary, Wikileaks support him and his brutal regime. To see Russian dictatorship as an alternative to any problems Western have, is a sign of cognitive disability.
Who needs wikileeks anymore when we have ex-president leeks?
Or President Diaper leaks.
@@Dean4511cry harder
Who needs democrats when we already have millions of children.
TRUTH!!!
@@StayKindUnwindTrump is greasy dude but seriously, you can't find anything wrong with Biden? There's an old video of Noam Chomsky giving precise reasons why every single president in the last fifty years is a war criminal
I won't be happy until he is on Australian soil, it's been a long battle & the American government should never have tried this,
The American press should have been standing tall behind him, Rj in Oz
Ignore the trolls and bots. A huge win for Democracy. ✊🏾
Not really. Democracy should not take a decade.also he had to
Please guilty to obtain freedom. Thats not democracy
LETS GOOOOOOOO
Gotta love Rachel 🎉
Not at all
I can barely tolerate her for 3 minutes usually..
At last it seems she's learned to be less smug..
So I was able to watch her for a few extra minutes this time.
Eweww
Demorats do love the smell of the own feces.
🤢Ick👎
Thanks for your work Julian !
Blowing the whistle
Thank you for this breaking news. Rachel always gives the unusual and ground breaking and ALL the historical background too. Thank you!
Never understood why JA was jailed when he did the world a favour with the exposures. A bit like Watergate
I wouldn't call him constantly working to illegally obtain US military classified documents to publish "a favor" Unless your name is Putin?
Yeah, a LOT like Wategate, only what he exposed were far worse crimes committed by various agencies of the U.S. govt, esp. the Pentagon.
Not exactly.
To be sure, Maddow is NOT on Assange's side. But she got to bloviate as the tide has taken over the MSM.
@@Lisa-pl6gv Maybe more like Pentagon Papers that were leaked by Daniel Ellsberg, who is today celebrated as a hero. Just like Julian Assange is.
He didn’t leak anything. It’s called journalism.
I love me some Rachel Maddow info!🌹🏆❤️🔥
Sorry for being a journalist in the sense of it. Telling the truth is a sacrifice. You told the truth. God bless you and your family. Happy birthdays and reunion.
Imprisoned because he told the truth.
Set free because he told a lie.
Oh good
Ура-а-а!
Поздравляю Ассанжа, а также родных и близких !
Хорошо что в Великобритании сидел всё это время, подальше от американских политиков.
Спасибо отдельное и за неравнодушное и активную гражданское общество западных стран.
P. S. Увы, в России таких смелых журналистов сажают, устраивают гонения и убивают.
TRUMP WILL TRY TO DO WHAT HE HAS DONE
He stole top secret documents for that very reason! Both of them are traitors!
Trump put him in jail
God bless you Julian❤❤❤
This has been going on for years and years.
My message to Julian is simple: Brother, glad to hear you are out of prison. Heal....recharge...and come back out swinging you Aussie legend! "If you don't have anyone willing or able to publish the truth any more, then the public can be manipulated. And that's the ultimate goal."
- Stella Assange
Julian Assange is a hero! I am glad he will finally be free.
Shame on you America. Shame.
Trump deserves a well earned prison sentence ,not Assange. Time to wake up America!
They both deserve well-earned prison sentences. They both illegally conspired to obtain and sell (publish, keep) US military classified documents. Thinking a stupid "journalist" is above the law any more than Donald Trump is crackers.
Imagine your mind, 👈🤔
free of Trump, for
a FRACTION of a second...
Oops, it's gone...👈🤔
they both do.
Great ending for a man who had so go through so much crap for hurting the military industrial complex’s fee-fees. Thank god America never got their hands on him.
Yes! Big things about to happen. Popcorn 🍿 ready!!! BOOM!
finally freed an innocent man
Which part of pleading guilty didn’t you understand?
@@jenniferbailey5914 There's a difference between being morally innocent and legally innocent. Kinda of like how you can feel guilty for something that's not a crime.
Biden doing what Trump could never
Trump was going to do it.
@@GreenPartyHatLOL 😂 a huh sure
@@GreenPartyHat trump was going to build a wall, do a middle class tax cut, do an infrastructure bill and create trumpcare.
Trump was gonna built the wall, he was gonna lock up Clinton. He was gonna testify in his last THREE trials, he was gonna show us that IRREFUTABLE evidence that the election was stolen. He was gonna pay his taxes. He was gonna release his taxes to the public. He was gonna go to the capitol. He was gonna bomb Mexico. He was gonna make Mexico pay for the wall. He was gonna send home American Troops from Afghanistan. He was gonna, he was gonna, he was gonna. @@GreenPartyHat
@@GreenPartyHat oh, and also deport DACA kids and lock up hillary.
I am glad that, after all he did for telling the truth, he is now able to save his life.
Why are the comments angry about his leaks? Isn't that something good? I thought liberals loved transparency?
Liberals don't like jerks who break the law all the time just because they have massive sociopathic egos and think they can get away with it. Assange was illegally obtaining classified US military documents to publish (sell). No wonder Maga like him.
Not if it hurts them.
Liberals like being hypocrites. They only like it if it benefits them.
He will be unlived within 6 months 🤬
Dear Republicans. Voting is woke. Voting by mail and voting early is extremely woke.
Don't be woke, its not cool.
Republicans freed the slaves. The most woke thing ever.
Yeah no.
Mailing in your civic duty is perfectly acceptable. Nothing could go wrong.
That's what we teach these days... It's not true.
It's all "rigged" right?!? Why vote at all when Trump said it's totally rigged and unfair and blah blah ?? Unless of course he was LYING and your shameless butt knows he was lying.
The US shot the pianist. What kind of democracy is that ???
He's free.. As he should have BEEN a long time ago..
2007, Baghdad, Iraq: Two Reuters journalists were slaughtered by U S. Apache helicopters. Julian Assange exposed this.
Assange has more bravery and nobility in his chalk-white 5-years-entombed pinky than those trigger-happy pilots could ever dream of possessing.
Free at last, free at last. Julian Assange is free at last!
I am glad he got to go home!
What a disgrace. This is something I'ld expect from a T. Ronald Dump justice department ...
He should never be charged
Yes he should,oh and you are a total clown.
Meanwhile x45 is selling US classified documents to fellow golfers at Bedminster .....
@cbjones2212 foreign members, Saudis and Russians and Chinese agents
a true hero; be safe Julian! so happy he is released. You should never have been charged or held.
Kept exposing these criminals in power
she is such a bad "journalist".
No comment. This is hard to Digest i pray for him ❤
Finally! 🎉🩷
To be fair, I assume every single journalist who has ever received and reported on confidential US information is getting ready to plead guilty to the same idiotic offence
🙏 🙏
Guilty of telling the Truth !
Does this mean Trump will be sentenced to Australia, too? That would be awesome.
No thanks. Australia hates Trump.
🙄
No thanks. TFG entirely a product of the US. Your problem to deal with on the world's behalf.
what?????I assure you Aus is a far better place than the US. I am a duel citizen, born in Denver, I am ashamed of the US
Just imagine Assange was an Australian that exposed Russian secret documents and captured in Kazakhstan...
🤪He is luckier than Boeing whistleblower.
This is well and good, BUT why isn't donnie being charged and incarcerated????????????????
He got a good deal. Suffered alot but hot a good deal. WHY?!
Justice
Idk, maybe outreach to the tinfoil constituency?
*cough* Seth Rich *cough cough*
Julian Assange is a true hero, wish him the best!
Why would he be released? He’s guilty
Guilty of practicing journalism--ludicrous. It's called a plea bargain for a reason.
So is Trump but for some reason it different
Guilty for telling the truth.
@@faiththrower7951you've been smoking Hunters crack.😂😂😂
Guilty of practicing journalism?
Why not send him to jail??
Time held in jail in the UK is part of the deal. He has been in detention in the UK for over five years.
Someone cut a sweet deal!
How sweet, though‽ Will Julian Assange be on any probation of any kind? Will he be allowed to have access to the internet at all, let alone WikiLeaks specifically or any website owned and/or operated by him?
They didn't go into any detail about those specifics in this video.
@@MorpheusOneDude didn't want to be on the run living like the homeless. He cut his loses and kissed the ring.
@moonkey: True. In fact, I do believe that it is particularly likely that he felt his old age creating more & more wear & tear on him physically, & perhaps psychologically, too, the longer that he has been in British custody; given the pictures that I have seen of him over the last few years & how he has obviously aged.
But, what I want to know is what are the details of this plea deal; specifically concerning his ability to access and use the internet. Will he be able to continue his _`hoogverraad`._
He should never have been imprisoned or even pursued, the amount of judicial overreach by the US govt in this case is truly astounding.
1. he was not in the US when the docs (taken by their own employee who was given access to materials above his clearance level) were taken and given to him
2. He is not a US Citizen
3. The US laws regarding secret/top secret etc. materials do not apply in jurisdictions outside the US.
As such he was outside the US's ability to hold him accountable, yet they still tried multiple times.
Absolutely appalling, China & Russia have both been holding this up as an example of US hypocrisy for over a decade and the US government officials didn't even realise this until the Aussie delegation told them a few months back.
TBH the rest of the world see's the US as a bully (more so when Trump was in power) and a bit of a joke as to how myopic their vision is. This case has proven it, and the debate the other night hammered it home. A serial liar vs some guy who can barely string a sentence together.
Hello from Corpus Christi, TX
Hello from Houston, Tx
This guy is a Russian spy and ought to be jailed for life.