 The founder of a website that published American military secrets is now a free man. He cut a deal with federal prosecutors. 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 served in prison.