The leader of the site Wikileaks, Julian Assange, has been released from a British jail after pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy. In 2019, Assange was charged with 17 crimes, including:
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- Conspiracy to receive and share national security information,
- Conspiracy to commit system incursions,
- Obtaining national defense information ( seven counts ), and
- National protection information is being disclosed on nine works.
According to court documents, Assange admitted to one count of “obtaining and disclosing national security info.” According to Assange’s fear that if he landed on American earth, the U. S. authorities would attack him, he was flown to a secluded island in the Pacific Ocean, the Northern Mariana Islands, a U. S. controlled place northeast of Guam.
In 2010, Wikileaks released 91, 000 classified defense files about the war in Afghanistan. The papers with the actual names of Afghan spies were going to be made public by Assange. During a conference with reporters in London, Assange shocked his breakfast companions by replying to a problem with,” Well, they’re sources. But, if they get killed, they’ve got it coming to them. They deserve it”.
According to knowledge options, the journalists persuaded him not to release the names, but another identifying signs were included that led to at least three deaths.
 ,” A number of people went into hiding, a number of people had to move, especially those residents in conflict areas who had told U. S. men about movements of the Taliban and al- Qaida”, said P. J. Crowley, the State Department official at the time of the leaks. No doubt that some of those people suffered harm as a result of their identities being compromised.
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In October of that year, Assange released 400, 000 documents on the Iraq War, most of them classified. It was that omission that persuaded the Justice Department that Assange was using anti-American sentiment to gain notoriety and would reveal any secret in order to keep his name in front of the public.
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Former Observer columnist Nick Cohen worked for Assange for Wikileaks, disproving the idea that Assange was a hero.
We also have to inquire about the motivations behind the wider transparency movement. One of its driving forces is anti-Americanism, which aids in explaining its perfidies. It is too easy to ignore the victims of regimes whose excesses cannot be attributed to the west if you think the American “military-industrial complex”, Europe, or Israel are the only or main sources of oppression.
National Security Council spokesman Adrienne Watson stated in a statement on Monday evening that the Department of Justice made an independent decision and that there was no White House involvement in the plea deal decision.
I call bull on that. Releasing Assange was a political decision. It was n’t done in a vacuum. It had nothing to do with” justice”. The far-left received a signal from the Biden campaign that they had their back.
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If it encourages others to leak documents and secrets out of” conscience”, so much the better.
Assange is no hero. Even if you think his leaks aided” transparency”, they also endangered innocent people’s lives — people who helped save American lives and did n’t deserve to live in fear for their service. That aspect of the equation is never made aware by Assange opponents.  ,
Assange will ride off into the sunset, a hero to the left and some misguided conservatives. But looking at the whole picture, Julian Assange was a traitor to the West and an unthinking, uncaring muckraker.
