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U.S. Official Hints at Possible Plea Deal for Julian Assange
(theintercept.com)
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You're right, it was during the Trump administration. For some reason I thought the first indictment had been made and then sealed during Obama's tenure. Trump's attack was a major escalation.
I don't see any reference to a Grand Jury in the linked article, and I can't find anything in Google about "assange grand jury 2010". Are you thinking about this section?
It seems to indicate that they didn't even bother to assemble a grand jury, which is even better for Obama.
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2011/may/11/us-opens-wikileaks-grand-jury-hearing
Looks like I was a year off, it was 2011.
Thanks. Yeah, I think I heard about this jury, but only that its deliberation was secret, and I never found out what was decided. When the indictment was unsealed, I assumed it was the revelation of this Jury's decision.
Easy to get mixed up. It has been a long and complex case!
Even more complex with the changing of administrations who each handled it differently.
Do you remember when the decision of the 2011 grand jury was revealed? If they kept it secret to scare Assange, that's still a pretty outrageous form of press intimidation.
Oh agreed and I am pretty sure they were happy to leave it hanging over him for intimidation purposes.
Democrats are "better" on press freedom simply because their moves are more overt than direct, so fewer people notice them.