Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has to juggle tensions between calls for Julian Assange’s freedom and simmering US anger at the WikiLeaks founder.
, juggling tension between civil libertarian calls for him to be freed and a US ally with its own domestic political considerations, when deciding what to do about the self-styled journalist.
Albanese said on Monday he stood by comments from last year, when he said he did not see “what purpose is served by the ongoing pursuit of Mr Assange”. He expects it will take a leader-to-leader deal between Albanese and US President Joe Biden to drop the charges, likening it to how John Howard secured convicted terrorist“Julian should be allowed to live his life without the threat of prosecution. Wherever he goes in the world, he should not have that threat hanging over his head,” Barns said.
The first was that Republicans and most Democrats felt strongly that national security secrets had been compromised by the original WikiLeaks disclosures in 2010.
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