Assange, who has been in custody in the United Kingdom, appeared in a U.S. court in the Northern Mariana Islands on Wednesday morning.
Washington — WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange pleaded guilty to a single felony charge for publishing U.S. military secrets as part of a deal with the Justice Department that secures his freedom and concludes a drawn-out legal saga that raised divisive questions about press freedom and national security. Assange appeared Wednesday morning in a federal courthouse in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. commonwealth in the Pacific, the Associated Press reported.
Assange was accused of working with Manning to figure out the password on a Defense Department computer system that stored the sensitive records about the Iraq and Afghanistan wars as well as hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainee assessment briefs.Federal prosecutors also accused Assange of publishing the names of 'persons throughout the world who provided information to the U.S. government in circumstances in which they could reasonably expect that their identities would be kept confidential.
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