Julian Assange to be freed after pleading guilty to violating Espionage Act
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🗓️ 25 June 2024
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Julian Assange will be freed after pleading guilty to breaking U.S. espionage law.
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| 0:00.0 | Wunderry Plus subscribers can listen to USA Today's the excerpt, ad free right now. |
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| 0:08.0 | Good morning, I'm Taylor Wilson and today is Tuesday June 25th, 2024. This is the |
| 0:19.3 | excerpt. Today Julian Assange will be free after pleading guilty to violating US |
| 0:28.0 | espionage law. Plus the Supreme Court will weigh in on gender affirming care |
| 0:31.8 | for minors, |
| 0:33.1 | and we take a look at Trump's strategy |
| 0:35.2 | for Thursday's debate. |
| 0:38.8 | WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange |
| 0:40.8 | has agreed to plead guilty to violating the Espionage Act according to federal |
| 0:44.8 | court records. |
| 0:45.8 | He has fought extradition for years to avoid facing charges for releasing classified information |
| 0:51.2 | about US military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan. |
| 0:55.0 | Under the terms of the plea with US prosecutors, |
| 0:57.4 | Assange will get no more detention time |
| 0:59.7 | than the 62 months he has already served in the United Kingdom. |
| 1:03.0 | Assange is set to be released to Australia, his country of citizenship, |
| 1:07.0 | after a court proceeding is over today, according to federal records. |
| 1:11.0 | Assange gained worldwide attention in 2010, after revealing the biggest security breach of its |
| 1:15.7 | kind in U.S. military history. |
| 1:18.1 | WikiLeaks released more than 90,000 documents related to Afghanistan and later published more than 400,000 documents |
| 1:24.9 | from the war in Iraq. The documents included information about civilian deaths, |
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