 Everything is up in the air, and we're on the air with you right now, and Julian Assange is free. He entered a plea agreement, ending a years-long standoff with the U.S. government. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is officially back in his home country, Australia. Hugging his wife and father at the airport as a small group of supporters cheered his arrival as a free man after pleading guilty to one charge of espionage in a court in Saipan in front of a U.S. federal judge who sentenced him to time already