OK, we've just worked out the funniest thing Assange could do at this point.
What's funny about it?
Why are some many people here spouting conspiracies lol? Manning, his partner in crime, has been out of prison and living a normal life for years but Assange is going to get disappeared for some reason? If the US government wanted to keep him in a hole they could have not offered a plea deal and kept going through the extradition process in the UK (where he would have stayed in jail since he has a history of fleeing).
Number one reason is probably * gestures wildly at everything *