“Julian Assange’s supporters appeared energized Thursday by President Biden’s comment that the United States is ‘considering’ a request to drop its push to prosecute the WikiLeaks founder,” the Washington Post reports.
“Assange faces prosecution in the United States related to the 2010 publication of a huge trove of leaked military records and diplomatic cables about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.