https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/julian-assange-wikileaks-freed-us-b2568201.html

Briefly, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange plans to plead guilty as part of a plea deal with the US Justice Department that which could see him walk free and bring an end to a long-running legal saga that spanned multiple continents.

Assange was charged with conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, new court documents show.

According to the documents, he is scheduled to appear in the federal court in the Mariana Islands, a US commonwealth in the Western Pacific, on Wednesday morning, and will plead guilty to an Espionage Act charge of conspiring to unlawfully obtain and disseminate classified national defense information, the DOJ said.

The charges against Assange in the US stem from one of the largest publications of classified information in American history, which took place during the first term of Barack Obama’s presidency.

I have to say this seems an unlikely scenario, but who knows? The Guardian has a similar headline.