Assange backtracks on promise to turn himself in upon Manning’s release
Jan18
Once the poster child for transparency and truth, Julian Assange seems to have had a change of heart. Months prior, Assange made the bold declaration that he’d hand himself over to authorities to face trial in the US if President Obama granted clemency to Army whistleblower Chelsea Manning. Manning, who recently saw the remainder of her sentence commuted to just five months, is responsible for a leak that gave Wikileaks possession of 700,000 classified — or de-classified, but ‘sensitive’ — military and diplomatic documents. Assange published the documents shortly after, in 2013. Manning, for her part, received a 35 year prison sentence after…
This story continues at The Next Web