{"id":68758,"date":"2024-06-27T17:39:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68758"},"modified":"2024-06-27T17:39:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-27T22:39:11","slug":"wiki-gate-julian-assange-was-framed-by-the-people-who-supported-him-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=68758","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWiki-Gate\u201d: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"title\">\n<h3><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wiki-gate-julian-assange-was-framed-by-the-people-who-supported-him\/5660128\">\u201cWiki-Gate\u201d: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content\">\n<div class=\"postThumbnail\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-single-post-thumbnail size-single-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange-400x167.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange-400x167.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange-300x125.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange-768x321.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange-232x98.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/free-assange.jpg 982w\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"167\" \/><\/div>\n<p><strong>1. Julian Assange is Free, but \u201cFreedom of Speech has Passed\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Julian Assange left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June. \u00a0He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where he boarded a plane and departed the UK.<\/p>\n<p>We must acknowledge the \u201cdodgy nature\u201d of the negotiations with the US DOJ: The deal reached on June 24, was that Assange:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cagrees\u00a0<strong>to plead guilty to ONE felony related to the disclosure of national security information in exchange for his release from Belmarsh Prison in the United Kingdom\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0(Common Dreams, June 24, 2024)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Holding the Assange Court Case in a \u00a0Remote \u201cTerritorial Court\u201d in the Northern Mariana Islands. Why?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Mariana are remote islands of 50,000 inhabitants in the Pacific North of Guam which belong to the U.S. Commonwealth.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sFlh5c pT0Scc iPVvYb aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.coris.noaa.gov\/portals\/images\/cnmi_map.jpg\" alt=\"NOAA CoRIS - Regional Portal - Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Confirmed by media reports (CBS, BBC): Assange will not spend time in US custody. He will receive \u201ccredit for the time spent incarcerated in the UK\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAssange will return to Australia, according to a letter from the Justice Department\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><strong>H<\/strong><strong>is\u00a0guilty\u00a0plea to only ONE charge is slated to be finalized in the \u201cRemote\u201d \u201cDistrict C<\/strong><strong>ourt\u201d of \u00a0the Northern Mariana Islands on June 26.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2><a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24%E2%80%AFPM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5860975 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24%E2%80%AFPM.png\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24\u202fPM.png 1802w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24\u202fPM-300x76.png 300w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24\u202fPM-768x195.png 768w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24\u202fPM-1024x260.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.globalresearch.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/06\/Screenshot-2024-06-25-at-12.20.24\u202fPM-400x102.png 400w\" alt=\"\" width=\"563\" height=\"143\" \/><\/a><\/h2>\n<p><b>The Criminalization of Justice? Threat to the First Amendment<\/b><\/p>\n<p>What is the End-Game of Assange\u2019s \u201c<strong>guilty plea\u201d<\/strong>\u00a0to be decided upon at the hearings of the \u201cTerritorial Court\u2019 of the Northern Mariana Islands?<\/p>\n<p>Assange had agreed to plead guilty to\u00a0<strong>\u201cone felony for conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified information related to U.S. national defense\u201d<\/strong>, as outlined in a\u00a0<strong>DOJ Letter\u00a0<\/strong>together with other documents (filed in U.S. District Court in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nmid.uscourts.gov\/\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|${u}\" data-reader-unique-id=\"38\">Northern Mariana Islands<\/a>, a U.S. territory in the Pacific)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the link above to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWiki-Gate\u201d: Julian Assange Was Framed by the People Who Supported Him 1. Julian Assange is Free, but \u201cFreedom of Speech has Passed\u201d Julian Assange left Belmarsh maximum security prison on the morning of 24 June. \u00a0He was granted bail by the High Court in London and was released at Stansted airport during the afternoon, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2001,1383,512,8104,6261],"class_list":["post-68758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-julian-assange","tag-justice","tag-media","tag-prof-michel-chossudovsky","tag-us-department-of-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68759,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68758\/revisions\/68759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}