{"id":6450,"date":"2024-12-01T09:04:50","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T14:04:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=6450"},"modified":"2024-12-01T09:04:50","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T14:04:50","slug":"us-reps-urge-biden-for-full-pardon-of-julian-assange-will-trump-do-the-right-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=6450","title":{"rendered":"US Reps Urge Biden For Full Pardon Of Julian Assange [Will Trump do the right thing?]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/news.antiwar.com\/2024\/11\/27\/reps-massie-and-mcgovern-urge-biden-to-pardon-julian-assange\/\">READ HERE:<\/a> <\/strong>House Reps. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and James McGovern (D-MA) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/reps-mcgovern-massie-urge-biden-pardon-julian-assange-send-clear-message-press-freedom\">have sent a letter to President Biden<\/a>\u00a0urging him to pardon WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to send a message that Biden will<strong>\u00a0&#8220;not target or investigate journalists and media outlets simply for doing their jobs.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We write, first, to express our appreciation for your administration\u2019s decision last spring to facilitate a resolution of the criminal case against publisher Julian Assange and to withdraw the related extradition request that had been pending in the United Kingdom,&#8221; Massie and McGovern wrote in the letter dated November 1,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/GabrielShipton\/status\/1861577016912601587\">which was first made public<\/a>\u00a0earlier this past week.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}