Assange should be welcomed home as a hero who exposed imperialism’s grisly workings

Julian Assange and his legal team likely figured that the deal seeing him return to Australia via an appearance in a US court in Saipan was the best he was going to get. But the Biden administration had its own reasons to want a deal. There was a real chance that Assange’s team would successfully appeal in the UK High Court against the US extradition request on the basis that the Justice Department’s assurances about his treatment in the US couldn’t be accepted.