Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks and an Australian journalist, has entered into a plea agreement with the United States, according to court filings. It’s a deal that allows him to sidestep additional prison time, after fighting extradition to the U.S. and living for seven years in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London.He then spent five years in a UK prison, HMP Belmarsh, described by some as “the Guantanamo Bay of Britain.”Under the terms of the agreement disclosed Monday, June 23, Assange would plead guilty to a felony charge stemming from his organization's extensive disclosure of classified information, which many considered U.S. war crimes.The agreement proposes a sentence of 62 months, equivalent to the duration Assange spent detained in the London prison while c
