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WikiPlea: Assange to Go Free

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ABC News

Politics, Daily News, News

4.56.4K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Julian Assange strikes a plea deal with the U.S. Justice Department. A brutal primary in New York centering around the Gaza war could upend the progressive “Squad.” And the U.S. Olympic team will bring its own air conditioners to Paris despite organizers’ plans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's Tuesday, June 25th, after years of court battles, did WikiLeaks win.

0:06.0

We start here.

0:09.0

Julian Assange gets a plea deal from the United States.

0:13.2

Put an end also to this very, very long confinement.

0:17.3

Why the world's most wanted keeper of state secrets won't have to serve a day in a US prison.

0:22.7

The presidential primary isn't in doubt,

0:25.0

but Democrats are sweating today's contests.

0:27.7

They believe that the progressive message

0:30.0

is kind of on the line here.

0:32.0

Could the squad lose its first member over the war in Gaza?

0:36.0

And if you can't take the heat, stay out of the Olympic Village.

0:39.0

So yes, we will have air conditioners.

0:41.0

The policy that has athletes torching organizers.

0:46.0

From ABC News, this is start here.

0:49.0

I'm Brad Milkey. Over the years, lots of people have spilled government secrets.

0:59.4

This is how we know about some of our country's most controversial acts.

1:02.2

I'm thinking Daniel

1:03.2

Ellsberg with the Pentagon Papers, Edward Snowden, Chelsea Manning. The most

1:07.5

recent major case in the US is Jack Tixera who disseminated this

1:11.2

tranche of intelligence about our military and the militaries of our allies,

1:15.2

but perhaps no one has become as synonymous with exposing the secrets of world leaders as Julian Assange.

1:22.0

You don't even have to know his name. You know WikiLeaks.

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