Julian Assange Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy

And you can't have a conspiracy without having some company ...

A little over fourteen years ago Project VIGILANT detected the Cablegate leak in progress. Today, Julian Assange, who became a Russian agent no later than 2015, accepted a plea deal for a conspiracy charge. His sentence is equal to the time he served in Belmarsh, so he’s going home to Australia.

This case is extraordinary in so many ways. A plea deal saves the state the cost of a trial, and it is not always indicative of an agreement to work against those with whom he conspired. Here is the relevant law.

18 U.S. Code § 371 - Conspiracy to commit offense or to defraud United States

If two or more persons conspire either to commit any offense against the United States, or to defraud the United States, or any agency thereof in any manner or for any purpose, and one or more of such persons do any act to effect the object of the conspiracy, each shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than five years, or both.

If, however, the offense, the commission of which is the object of the conspiracy, is a misdemeanor only, the punishment for such conspiracy shall not exceed the maximum punishment provided for such misdemeanor.

I first speculated on this in Julian Assange Flipping? on April 11th of 2024. This is the most notable part of that article, and it came two days after the publication of JAUKUS?, in which we see Japan standing back up after generations of staying down, militarily speaking, since WWII.

Biden was buttonholed about Assange during a high level visit by Japanese prime minister Fumio Kishida. Australia, one of our closest allies, has sought Assange’s release for years, and Biden’s response was “We’re considering it.”

Next, Emma Best, a Wikileaks veteran, produced a Julian Assange Timeline which has about 200 citations. Despite all these years of having to pay attention to the related cases, I learned all sorts of things reviewing that article.

Conclusion:

I am glad this matter is finally resolved, at least as far as Assange goes. There were others involved, now we wait to see who, if any of them, are also in trouble. Longtime readers will recall the very first article when Infowar Irregulars Bulletin was rebooted - All Enemies, Foreign And Domestic, Especially Roger Stone. If letting Assange go with time served provides the evidence needed to roll up Stone and his associates, that’s a step back from the precipice we face in November’s Civil War Referendum.

I’ve already said We’re Gonna Fight, and my view there hasn’t changed. It will be better for the country to face some right wing parastates than to deal with Catholic Integralism as the law of the land. And this is a step towards that lesser of evils.