If you're a graduating senior worrying whether there s life after BU, David House can reassure you on that score. In just the two years since putting the Charles River in his rearview mirror, he has befriended an internationally famous prisoner, talked on TV about their meetings, been interrogated by federal agents, had his laptop seized by the U.S. government, and sued the government over said seizure. Here s the how-to manual for arranging this perils-of-Pauline existence: step one, major in computer science, as did House (CAS'10). Step two, cofound a website and name it the Bradley Manning Support Network.

Everyone but David has stopped coming to see Bradley, and it takes a lot of courage to do what David is doing. It s a very intimidating situation. So I try to support him by giving him a place to stay and driving him to the base when he comes to town. That s really my only involvement

In The New York Times this morning, Charlie Savage describes the latest thinking from the DOJ about how to criminally prosecute WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. Federal investigators are "are looking for evidence of any collusion" between WikiLeaks and Bradley Manning -- "trying to find out whether Mr. Assange encouraged or even helped" the Army Private leak the documents -- and then "charge him as a conspirator in the leak, not just as a passive recipient of the documents who then published them." To achieve this, it is particularly important to "persuade Private Manning to testify against Mr. Assange." I want to make two points about this.