The Global Watch: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now a free man and has returned home to Australia after pleading guilty in a deal that ended his yearslong legal battle. Assange ran Wikileaks, a website that published many confidential or restricted official reports related to war, spying and corruption. He was accused by U.S authorities of conspiring to break into its military databases to acquire sensitive information and was charged with 18 offences.

GUEST: Brooks Spector is the Associate Editor at Daily Maverick 

The Global Watch: Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now a free man and has returned home to Australia after pleading guilty in a deal that ended his yearslong legal battle. Assange ran Wikileaks, a website that published many confidential or restricted official reports related to war, spying and corruption. He was accused by U.S authorities of conspiring to break into its military databases to acquire sensitive information and was charged with 18 offences.
GUEST: Brooks Spector is the Associate Editor at Daily Maverick

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Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is now a free man and has returned home to Australia after pleading guilty in a deal that ended his yearslong legal battle.

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