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Manning show trial shifts to video of US troops murdering civilians

June 10, 2013
posted by

Fresno Bee    

"The court-martial of a U.S. Army private who gave troves of classified material to the website WikiLeaks is shifting in its second week to specific items he sent. ... The prosecution lineup includes two witnesses familiar with video of a 2009 U.S. airstrike in Afghanistan that killed at least 26 civilians. Manning has acknowledged sending the video to WikiLeaks from Iraq in the spring of 2010. But it was never posted online." (06/10/13)

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Manning vs. the Marines

December 4, 2012
posted by

Kelley B Vlahos Antiwar.com
by Kelley B. Vlahos  

"As far as villains go, Pfc. Bradley Manning is hardly quintessential. At 5 foot 2 inches tall, his slender frame and bespectacled image has invoked snickers, sarcasm and according to reporting over the last two years, a lifetime of bullying. ... One can’t imagine worse conditions than being 21-year-old Manning in Army boot camp. Except a 23-year-old Manning incarcerated by the Marines." (12/04/12)

http://original.antiwar.com/vlahos/2012/12/03/manning-vs-the-marines/  

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Manning up

December 4, 2012
posted by

CounterPunch
by Randall Amster  

"Whatever one’s views about his alleged actions, you would need a pretty hard shell not to be moved by the case of Bradley Manning. Hero to some, traitor to others, this diminutive soldier has endured an unprecedented level of mistreatment, languishing in a largely incommunicado pretrial state for more than two years and facing repeated episodes of humiliation and degradation. Compounding this case is Manning’s status as a gay solider, for which he had experienced repercussions well before gaining international notoriety as a purported Wikileaks source for some of the whistleblowing site’s most damning allegations about governmental and military machinations around the world." (12/04/12)

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Declassified docs: US military considers Assange “enemy”

September 26, 2012
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Sydney Morning Herald [Australia]    

"The US military has designated Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as enemies of the United States -- the same legal category as the al-Qaeda terrorist network and the Taliban insurgency. Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with 'communicating with the enemy,' a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death." (09/27/12)

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Assange to Obama: Stop Wikileaks witch hunt

August 19, 2012
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Wikileaks CBS News    

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has called on President Obama to end a "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, after appearing in public for the first time since he took refuge inside Ecuador's embassy in London two months ago. ... He also called on the U.S. to release Pfc. Bradley Manning, the U.S. soldier who has been charged with aiding the enemy by passing the secret files to WikiLeaks and is awaiting trial." (08/19/12)

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UK: Top court backs Assange extradition to Sweden

May 30, 2012
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Wikileaks Agence France-Presse    

"The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange can be extradited to Sweden, but put his deportation on hold to give his lawyers a final chance to reopen the case. After an 18-month legal battle, the court rejected the argument by lawyers for the 40-year-old Australian that the Swedish prosecutor who issued the arrest warrant over sex crime allegations was not entitled to do so." (05/30/12)

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UK: Supreme Court to rule on Assange extradition

May 29, 2012
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Wikileaks Yuma Sun    

"Britain's Supreme Court is expected to rule Wednesday on whether to approve the extradition of WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange to Sweden, a potential turning point in the Internet activist's controversial career. Assange, 40, has spent the better part of two years fighting attempts to send him to the Scandinavian nation, where he is accused of sex crimes. At least one extradition expert said that his long-running legal campaign may finally yield a victory for the Australian programmer." (05/29/12)

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Rules are rules

May 6, 2012
posted by

Bradley Manning CounterPunch
by Ron Jacobs  

"That video was the first time most Americans had heard about Wikileaks. Not long after, the name of Bradley Manning also entered the US consciousness. He would be accused of releasing that video and thousands of other documents relating to the US wars on Iraq and Afghanistan, along with thousands of diplomatic cables describing in oftentimes explicit detail the crimes and morally questionable actions and words of Washington officials. Soon, Mr. Manning would be charged with treason and aiding the enemy (among other charges) for his actions. He is currently on trial in a US military court located at Fort Meade, MD. and faces life imprisonment. It is my belief that only an immense and broad popular movement could possibly change that fate." (05/06/12)

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UN official critical of Manning detention

March 13, 2012
posted by

Bradley Manning CNN    

"U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of aiding the enemy by passing reams of classified military documents to WikiLeaks, may have been treated inhumanely by the U.S. military since his arrest in 2010, according to a report from the United Nations' top official on torture. The findings are the result of a 14-month long probe conducted by U.N. special rapporteur Juan Mendez and released late last month." (03/13/12)

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In the hole

February 23, 2012
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CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley  

"The Manning prosecution is a tragic miscarriage of justice. US officials are highly embarrassed by what Manning exposed and are shooting the messenger. As Glen Greenwald, the terrific Salon writer, has observed, President Obama has prosecuted more whistleblowers for espionage than all other presidents combined." (02/23/12)

http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/02/23/in-the-hole/  

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Lawyer in WikiLeaks case wants to depose Clinton

January 16, 2012
posted by

Bradley Manning Wichita Eagle    

"A lawyer for an intelligence analyst charged with leaking classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks wants to question Secretary of State Hillary Clinton before his client is tried. David Coombs, a lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning, included a request to question Clinton as part of a redacted document posted Monday on his website and also sent to Army officials. Clinton's name is obscured in the document, but it is clear from context that she is the person he wants to question." (01/16/12)

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Almanza recommends full court martial in Manning case

January 12, 2012
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Bradley Manning Telegraph [UK]    

"The case of Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of handing hundreds of thousands of secret military documents to WikiLeaks, has been recommended [by Article 32 hearing officer Lt. Col. Paul Almanza] to proceed to a full military court martial. ... The recommendation will now be passed to the Special Court Martial Convening Authority which will make a decision based on Lt Col Almanza's report."

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Regime prosecutors use Manning hearing to send up Assange trial balloon

December 22, 2011
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Bradley Manning Washington Post    

"Military prosecutors presented new and detailed evidence Thursday that they said showed that Pfc. Bradley Manning collaborated with Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, in stealing [sic] more than 700,000 documents from classified computer systems and publishing them on the Internet. ... Manning’s defense attorney, David E. Coombs, accused military prosecutors of 'over-charging' in the case in an effort to obtain a plea agreement and gain the former intelligence analyst’s cooperation in a separate, federal case against Assange." (12/22/11)

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When the bubble bursts

December 18, 2011
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Antiwar.com Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo  

"Secrecy is the prerequisite for tyranny, and knowledge is the tyrant’s worst foe: that’s why whistleblowers -- from Dan Ellsberg to Bradley Manning -- are relentlessly pursued and prosecuted. That’s why anyone who tries to give context to their revelations -- such as this web site -- is attacked and spied on by the government and its shills. That’s also why the sickening smear campaign launched against both Manning and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has taken on the dual aspects of both a witch hunt and a crusade." (12/19/11)

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Manning to face pretrial hearing

December 15, 2011
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Bradley Manning Washington Post    

"[E]xchanges between ]government informant Adrian] Lamo and [Bradley] Manning, a baby-faced tech savant who joined the Army in a bid to turn around a troubled life, could be among the key evidence in a pretrial hearing starting Friday at a Military District of Washington courtroom at Fort Meade. Investigators also have forensic evidence from computers used by Manning and data from the WikiLeaks Web site. Manning, who turns 24 Saturday, has been accused of aiding the enemy, violating the Espionage Act and several lesser charges -- enough to send him away for life." (12/15/11)

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Manning defense lists Obama, Clinton as witnesses

December 5, 2011
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Bradley Manning Washington Post    

"When a military court opens one of the biggest national security trials in years late next week -- that of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning -- the defense would like some very big names to testify: President Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, filed his request for witnesses on Friday and released it publicly over the weekend. ... The Army has scheduled a pretrial hearing for Manning for Dec. 16 at Fort Meade." (12/05/11)

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UK: Assange can continue his extradition fight

December 5, 2011
posted by

Wikileaks USA Today    

"A British court Monday gave WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange permission to continue his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden over sex crimes allegations. The decision means Assange does not face immediate deportation. British judges said Assange could apply to the Supreme Court to hear one specific point of his legal case -- but there is no guarantee that the higher court will accept his request." (12/05/11)

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UK: Court rules against Assange in extradition case

November 2, 2011
posted by

Wikileaks News Digests Wire    

"Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lost a skirmish in his legal battle to avoid extradition to Sweden today, but has a two-week window in which to seek permission for an appeal to the supreme court. Assange has not been charged with any crime and alleges that the extradition request, for questioning on alleged sex crimes, is politically motivated." (11/02/11)

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Wikileaks suspends publishing to fight financial blockade

October 24, 2011
posted by

Wikileaks Guardian [UK]    

"Julian Assange, co-founder of WikiLeaks, has announced that the whistleblowing website is suspending publishing operations in order to focus on fighting a financial blockade and raise new funds. Assange, speaking at a press conference in London on Monday, said a banking blockade had destroyed 95% of WikiLeaks' revenues." (10/24/11)

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Feds get secret court order for Wikileaks emails

October 10, 2011
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Wall Street Journal    

"The U.S. government obtained a controversial type of secret court order to force Google Inc. and small internet provider Sonic.net Inc. to turn over information from the email accounts of a WikiLeaks volunteer. Sonic said it fought the government's order and lost, and was forced to turn over information. Challenging the order was 'rather expensive, but we felt it was the right thing to do,' said Sonic's chief executive, Dane Jasper." (10/10/11)

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Publisher releases “unauthorized autobiography” of Assange

September 21, 2011
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CBS News    

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at a British publisher for releasing drafts of a memoir without his approval Thursday, saying he did not author the book or get the opportunity to check it. British publisher Canongate announced that the book, billed as an 'unauthorized autobiography,' will go on sale in stores and online Thursday." (09/21/11)

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/09/21/501364/main20109867.shtml  

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Zimbabwe: Regime threatens to shut down newspapers over WikiLeaks

September 13, 2011
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Christian Science Monitor    

"The Zimbabwe government is threatening to shut down 'private and foreign' news media organizations that it says are 'abusing their journalistic privileges by denouncing the country and its leadership.' The threat comes just days after the release of new US diplomatic cables by the whistleblower website WikiLeaks revealed widening rifts within the country’s dominant party, ZANU-PF." (09/13/11)

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Assange: Why WikiLeaks was right to release raw cables

September 6, 2011
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New Scientist    

"WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has defended the organisation's release of all 251,000 secret US diplomatic cables that it held without the redaction of the names of informants mentioned in them. In an interview with New Scientist, Assange said the leak publishing outfit's usual editorial 'harm minimisation' procedures had become irrelevant after other websites published the full text of the unredacted cables." (09/06/11)

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WikiLeaks blames reporter for release of unredacted cables

August 31, 2011
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Richmond Times-Dispatch    

"Anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks says that its massive archive of unredacted U.S. State Department cables has been exposed in a security breach. The files now appear to be circulating freely around the Web, and WikiLeaks is blaming a British newspaper. In a 1,600-word-long editorial posted to the Internet early Friday morning, WikiLeaks accused the Guardian newspaper's investigative reporter David Leigh of divulging the password needed to decrypt the files in a book published earlier this year." (08/31/11)

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Wikileaks crashes in alleged cyber-attack

August 31, 2011
posted by

Wikileaks Sky News [UK]    

"The WikiLeaks website has crashed in an apparent cyber attack after the accelerated publication of tens of thousands of secret US State Department documents. WikiLeaks updated its Twitter account to say it was 'still under a cyber attack' and directed its followers to search for cables on a mirror site or a separate search system." (08/31/11)

http://news.sky.com/home/world-news/article/16059879  

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