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After years in a British prison and years before that holed up in Ecuador’s London embassy, Julian Assange faced an American judge Wednesday morning in one of the most remote US federal courthouses. In Saipan, capital of the Northern Mariana Islands, the Wikileaks founder pleaded guilty to one count of conspiring unlawfully to obtain and disseminate classified information, CNN reports. Chief Judge Ramona V. Manglona accepted the plea deal terms and did not impose prison time beyond the 62 months he served in London’s Belmarsh prison. “It appears this case ends with me here in Saipan,” Manglona…

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