by far the greatest, most important, most significant news publisher of our times, Julian Assange wins a small victory in a UK court yesterday which ruled that a final ruling on his extradition to the US would be delayed three weeks in order to receive assurances from the US pertaining to Assange’s 1st amendment rights and that the US would not seek the death penalty. If the US fails to give these assurances to the UK then Assange would be allowed to appeal his extradition to the US at a hearing in May.
There has been talk floated by the media (WSJ, NYT, Guardian, WaPo) from "anonymous sources" in the DoJ about them offering Assange some kind of plea deal for a misdemeanor charge of mishandling classified material and being able to walk free. Gee how generous of them. Here's a better idea, why not go f*ck yourselves and just drop all the bullsh*t charges and stop trying to kill the guy? What a thought.