#Assange #PressFreedom #Wikileaks #Journalism #Media #News: "After weeks of negotiations, Mr. Assange is pleading guilty to one of the charges in the indictment — conspiracy to disseminate national defense information — which carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison.

Mr. Assange and his supporters have long argued that his efforts to obtain and publicly release sensitive national security information was in the public interest, and deserved the same First Amendment protections afforded to investigative journalists."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/24/us/politics/assange-plea.html