LIVE: The Bradley Manning Verdict

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Democracy Now!
http://www.democracynow.org/live/bradley_manning_verdict

Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/manning-verdict-could-tests-notion-aiding-enemy

Bradley Manning cleared of 'aiding the enemy' but guilty of most other charges http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/30/bradley-manning-wikileaks-judge-verdict?CMP=twt_gu

Bradley Manning Is Not a Royal Baby
http://www.fair.org/blog/2013/07/17/bradley-manning-is-not-a-royal-baby/

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Bradley Edward Manning is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified material to the website WikiLeaks. He was ultimately charged with 22 offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and aiding the enemy.

Assigned to an army unit based near Baghdad, Manning had access to databases used by the United States government to transmit classified information. He was arrested after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker, told the FBI that Manning had confided during online chats that he had downloaded material from these databases and passed it to WikiLeaks. The material included videos of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike and the 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan; 250,000 United States diplomatic cables; and 500,000 army reports that came to be known as the Iraq War logs and Afghan War logs. It was the largest set of restricted documents ever leaked to the public. Much of it was published by WikiLeaks or its media partners between April and November 2010.

Starting in July 2010 Manning was held at the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, under Prevention of Injury status, which entailed de facto solitary confinement and other restrictions that caused international concern. In April 2011 he was transferred to Fort Leavenworth, where he could interact with other detainees. He pleaded guilty in February 2013 to 10 of the 22 charges, which could carry a sentence of up to 20 years. The trial on the remaining charges, including aiding the enemy, began on June 3, 2013.

Reaction to his arrest was mixed. Denver Nicks, one of Manning's biographers, writes that the leaked material, particularly the diplomatic cables, was widely seen as a catalyst for the Arab Spring that began in December 2010, and that Manning was viewed as both a 21st-century Tiananmen Square Tank Man and an embittered traitor. Several commentators focused on why an apparently very unhappy Army private had access to classified material, and why security measures did not prevent his unauthorized downloading.

From wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradley_Manning


United States v. Bradley Manning is the court-martial of United States Army Private First Class Bradley E. Manning. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Bradley_Manning