Wikileaks: All about transparency, but not transparent itself? | DW News

Wikileaks founder Julian Assange arrived in Australia Wednesday with extradition to the United States no longer a threat. The US wanted Assange to stand trial, charging that he violated the Espionage Act when he posted classified documents in 2011 on his internet platform Wikileaks. This is a case that has spanned three presidencies, from Obama to Trump to Biden. Extradition and trial seemed certain until news that a plea deal had been reached. Assange entering a plea of guilty, receiving a sentence of time already served. His convicting lending credibility to the US case against him, at the same time allowing Assange to walk away free. For more on this, we talk to Thomas Rid, Professor at Johns Hopkins Universtiy’s School of Advanced International Studies and founding director of the Alperovitch Institute for Cybersecurity Studies. And we talk to Charlie Beckett who wrote the book about Wikileaks and Julian Assange titled “WikiLeaks: News in the Networked Era.” He is also Professo