• randon31415@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    How many years would his prison sentence have been if he was extradided the year he fled to the embassy? I feel like he would have been out by now. Wasn’t he leaking early Iraq war corruption stuff? That was 20 years ago.

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        4 months ago

        IIRC he had some kind of insurance file against that, I think there used to be some encrypted file you could download from Wikileaks and if he died the password would be released.

        No idea what it was (if anything, it could have just been a bluff of course) but it seems to have had the desired effect so far.