FLASHBACK: WikiLeaks said Assange would agree to prison time if Obama commuted Manning

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A WikiLeaks tweet about Julian Assange’s fate resurfaced on Tuesday after the White House announced that President Obama had commuted most of Chelsea Manning’s 35-year prison sentence.

WikiLeaks proposed a deal on Twitter last week that involved Assange agreeing to U.S. extradition if the current administration freed Manning, who was sentenced to more than three decades in prison for leaking Army documents to the government transparency site in 2010.

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