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Julian Assange, Glorified and Vilified Founder of WikiLeaks, to Be Set Free

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Fourteen years after WikiLeaks published classified materials related to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, touching off a winding legal saga that spanned three presidencies, the controversial whistleblower has entered plea deal.

“Julian Assange is free,” WikiLeaks said in a statement Monday, confirming that he had been released from the prison, where he’d been held the last five years while fighting extradition to the US. “Julian’s freedom is our freedom.

The leaks—which WikiLeaks began publishing the same day the Access Hollywood tape emerged of Donald Trump boasting that he had groped women—exacerbated divisions within the Democratic Party, and drew praise from the Republican nominee. “I love WikiLeaks,” he said on the campaign trail. To his supporters, Assange was a crusading whistleblower; to his detractors, he was a national security threat aiding Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

 

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