Julian Assange’s Plea Deal Is a Tragedy

Joe Biden’s Justice Department has elected to resolve a decade-long standoff with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by surrendering.

On Monday, Assange agreed to travel to Saipan — an American outpost in the Pacific close to his native Australia — where he will plead guilty to a single felony count of illegally obtaining and disclosing classified documents. There, Assange is expected to be sentenced to the time he has already served in a British prison following his forcible removal from a London-based Ecuadorian embassy in 2019. Save this exercise in process, Assange will not face American justice.