Wikileaks
The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning
In January 2017, after being locked up at five different facilities, in conditions a United Nations expert called “cruel” and “inhumane,” Manning had received a surprise commutation by President Barack Obama. Four months later, she was free, trying to adjust to life in a world she helped shape. Finishing her coffee, she fished her iPhone out of her purse and asked her security guard for a lift back to the apartment where she was staying while in Manhattan.
The Fog Machine of War
If you were following the news during the March 2010 elections in Iraq, you might remember that the American press was flooded with stories declaring the elections a success, complete with upbeat anecdotes and photographs of Iraqi women proudly displaying their ink-stained fingers. The subtext was that United States military operations had succeeded in creating a stable and democratic Iraq. Early that year, I received orders to investigate 15 individuals whom the federal police had arrested on suspicion of printing anti-Iraqi literature. I learned that these individuals had absolutely no ties to terrorism; they were publishing a scholarly critique of Mr. Maliki s administration. I forwarded this finding to the officer in command in eastern Baghdad. He responded that he didn t need this information; instead, I should assist the federal police in locating more anti-Iraqi print shops.
Manning Sentenced to 35 Years for Leaking Government Secrets
A military judge on Wednesday sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for providing more than 700,000 government files to WikiLeaks, a gigantic leak that lifted the veil on military and diplomatic activities around the world. The sentence is the longest ever handed down in a case involving a leak of United States government information to be reported to the public. Private Manning will apparently be eligible for parole in slightly more than eight years.
Manning’s Lawyers Urge a Lenient Sentence
Court Rulings Blur the Line Between a Spy and a Leaker
The federal government is prosecuting leakers at a brisk clip and on novel theories. It is collecting information from and about journalists, calling one a criminal and threatening another with jail. In its failed effort to persuade Russia to return another leaker, Edward J. Snowden, it felt compelled to say that he would not be tortured or executed.
Manning Is Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy
Manning Called ‘Naïve, but Good-Intentioned’
A defense lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning on Friday portrayed his client as "young, na ve, but good-intentioned" when he sent databases of secret documents about American military and diplomatic activities to WikiLeaks, and he urged the judge in his court-martial to be lenient when she decides his fate.
Prosecutor Calls Manning an Egotist Who Betrayed Nation’s Trust
Judge in Manning Case Allows Charge of Aiding the Enemy
Trial Portrays Two Sides Private in WikiLeaks Case
The court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning, whose secret release of a vast archive of military and diplomatic materials put WikiLeaks into an international spotlight, opened here Monday with dueling portrayals of a traitor who endangered the lives of his fellow soldiers and of a principled protester motivated by a desire to help society who carefully selected which documents to release.
Court Declines to Rule in Wikileaks Complaint
Army Judge Raises Burden in Bradley Manning Trial
In WikiLeaks Trial, a Theater of State Secrecy
The Impact of the Bradley Manning Case
LAST month Pfc. Bradley Manning pleaded guilty to several offenses related to leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks in 2010, a plea that could land him in jail for 20 years. But Private Manning still faces trial on the most serious charges, including the potential capital offense of aiding the enemy - though the prosecution is not seeking the death penalty in this case, "only" a life sentence.
Army Private Admits Giving Military Files to WikiLeaks
New Evidence to Be Introduced Against Bradley Manning
WikiLeaks Case Lawyer Chides Marine Jailers on Manning’s Treatment
Supervisors at the Marines Quantico brig imprisoned Pfc. Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of secret government documents to WikiLeaks, in unduly harsh and restrictive conditions over nearly nine months for no legitimate nonpunitive reason, his lawyer argued on Tuesday at the conclusion of a pretrial hearing.
Hearing for US soldier in WikiLeaks centers on prison treatment
Saturday s proceedings, on the fifth day of the hearing, focused on the events of January 18, 2011, when Manning broke down and began crying after falling while guards were removing his shackles in an exercise room. Defense attorneys allege that Manning became especially distraught that day because guards were bullying him. Manning himself testified earlier that his guards seemed angry on the morning the incident occurred, making him nervous. One of Manning s guards at the time, former Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jonathan Cline, acknowledged in his testimony that military personnel at Quantico had been irritated by a pro-Manning protest a day before the incident in the exercise room. The protest had snarled traffic around Quantico.
Manning’s History Showed Self-Harm Risk
Manning grilled over why he didn’t complain earlier about treatment in detention
WikiLeaks Suspect, Manning, Describes Confinement
The Abuse of Private Manning
Pfc. Bradley Manning, who has been imprisoned for nine months on charges of handing government files to WikiLeaks, has not even been tried let alone convicted. Yet the military has been treating him abusively, in a way that conjures creepy memories of how the Bush administration used to treat terror suspects. Inexplicably, it appears to have President Obama s support to do so.
Assange Accuses U.S. of ‘Witch Hunt’ Against WikiLeaks
Beyond the reach of police officers waiting to arrest him and with hundreds of supporters looking on, Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, took to the balcony of Ecuador s embassy here on Sunday to condemn the United States government and cast himself as one of the world s most persecuted whistle-blowers.
WikiLeaks Grand Jury Witness David House Publishes First Account Of Prosecutors’ Questioning
David House, a friend of WikiLeaks alleged source Bradley Manning who first met the young Army private at a hacker space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has published a detailed account of his interrogation by prosecutors. House doesn t say much in that questioning: He confirms his name and birthdate, and otherwise invokes the fifth amendment against self incrimination to avoid responding. But the questions themselves shed light on an investigation that has otherwise taken place almost entirely in secret, and show that the prosecution may be digging into Bradley Manning s ties to a group of Boston hackers who attended BUILDS, a hackerspace House founded.
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Kim Kardashian's ascendance to the presidency is about as likely as the notion that WikiLeaks harmed U.S. national security, lawyers for Pfc. Bradley Manning argued in a defense brief released Wednesday. "Anything 'could' happen - the world 'could' end tomorrow; Kim Kardashian 'could' be elected president of the United States of America; I 'could' win the lottery," Coombs wrote. "These are not the types of 'could' that 18 U.S.C. Section 793 contemplates."
Army Bradley Manning aided al Qaeda with leaks
An Army private aided al Qaeda by leaking hundreds of thousands of military and other government documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the military said Thursday. Pfc. Bradley Manning had previously been charged with aiding the enemy among a total of 22 counts, but on Thursday the military identified the enemy Manning's actions aided. Manning and his attorneys are appearing at a hearing at a military courtroom at Fort Meade, near Baltimore, for two days of hearings in the case.
Bradley Manning declines to enter plea at court-martial
Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, declined to enter a plea at the start of his court-martial on Thursday, a legal maneuver intended to give his defense more time to hear what evidence or witnesses will be permitted during the proceedings
Army Officer Orders Court-martial For WikiLeaks Suspect
An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history. Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, the Army said in a statement.
Manning’s defense team trying different strategies
Lawyers for the Army intelligence analyst blamed for the biggest leak of U.S. secrets in the nation's history are employing a three-pronged defense: The troubled young private should never had access to classified material, his workplace security was inexplicably lax, and the data in question caused little damage to national security anyhow
Investigator tells military hearing he found ample secrets on Army private’s computer
A computer-crimes investigator testified Sunday he found more than 10,000 diplomatic cables and other sensitive information on the work computer of the Army private charged with spilling a mountain of secrets to WikiLeaks. Moreover, Special Agent David Shaver told a military hearing he discovered evidence that someone had used the computer to streamline the downloading of the cables with the apparent aim of "moving them out."
Manning Hearing Halted as Investigator Considers Recusal Request
A defense lawyer for Bradley Manning, the Army private accused in the most famous leak of government secrets since the Pentagon Papers, began a frontal attack during Private Manning s first court appearance here on Friday morning, claiming the Army s investigating officer at the evidentiary hearing was biased and should recuse himself from the case.
Army disciplined 15 over Bradley Manning and Wikileaks
The U.S. Army discliplined 15 people as a result of an internal investigation into the decisions and failures that put Pvt. Bradley Manning in a position to download and leak thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables he allegedly provided to WikiLeaks, an Army spokesman said Wednesday. At least one non-commissioned officer was reduced in rank for dereliction of duty, according a legal filing made public by Manning's defense over the weekend.
One Year Ago: First Questions Raised About Bradley Manning – Adrian Lamo ‘Chats’
Who is WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning
In January 2010, more than 130 people gathered to celebrate the opening of Room B-28, a 'hacker space' in the basement of the computer science building at Boston University. The room had two rows of computers running open-source software, and, in conformity to the hacker ethic, its walls were painted with wildly colored murals, extensions of the free expression to be practiced there.
WikiLeaks Suspect Arrives in Kansas Amid Criticism of Treatment at Quantico
Army private suspected in WikiLeaks breach to be moved to Fort Leavenworth, Kan.
A Pentagon official says the Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being moved to a state-of-the-art facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. But the Pentagon's general counsel says this does not suggest that the soldier s treatment of the soldier at the Marine Corps base at Quantico, Va., was inappropriate.
U.N. diplomat is denied private meeting with WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning
A United Nations diplomat charged with investigating claims of torture said Monday that he is 'deeply disappointed and frustrated' that U.S. defense officials have refused his request for an unmonitored visit with Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army intelligence analyst accused of passing classified material to wikileaks.
Abandoning Pvt. Manning
Why Bradley Manning, this former intelligence clerk without terrorist connections or secrets to hide should be treated with a cruelty that no dog pound would tolerate remains a mystery. But that nastiness may be lucky, in a bizarre way, because what the ACLU primly calls "the gratuitously harsh" nature of his captivity has finally put Pvt. Manning in the news.
WikiLeaks Suspect Bradley Manning’s Home Life Included 911 Call
About 35 Arrested at Rally for WikiLeaks Suspect
Obama vs. Whistle-Blowers: Taking a Hard Line on Leaks
Army Private First Class Bradley Manning sleeps under tear-proof blankets. Guards check on him every five minutes; if his face isn't visible, they wake him to make sure he's O.K. And every night that he spends at the Marine brig in Quantico, Va., for allegedly providing WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified government documents, he is stripped naked, ostensibly for his own safety.
Father of Imprisoned Wikileaker Speaks Out
In brig, WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning ordered to sleep without clothing
WikiLeaks Soldier Left Naked in Cell, Lawyer Says
22 new charges for U.S. WikiLeaks suspect
U.S. Struggling to Build Case Against Assange
U.S. investigators have been unable to uncover evidence that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange induced an Army private to leak government documents to his website, according to officials familiar with the matter. New findings suggest Pfc. Bradley Manning, the intelligence analyst accused of handing over the data to the WikiLeaks website, initiated the theft himself, officials said.
Army Officials Felt Accused WikiLeaker Was Unfit To Serve
Army investigators have concluded Iraq war commanders in desperate need of intelligence analysts ignored recommendations from low-level military officials at Fort Drum who said Pfc. Bradley Manning -- the accused source of the WikiLeaks document scandal -- was not fit for deployment because of behavioral problems, a military official tells Fox News.
WikiLeaks suspect’s atty hopes for custody changes
Bradley Manning, Held in WikiLeaks Case, Gains Backers
Pfc. Bradley Manning Soldier’s inhumane imprisonment in WikiLeaks case
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the 23-year-old Army intelligence analyst suspected of providing documents to WikiLeaks, can't reasonably complain that the military has him in custody. But the conditions under which he is being held at the Marine detention center at Quantico, Va., are so harsh as to suggest he is being punished for conduct of which he hasn't been convicted
Messages from alleged leaker Bradley Manning portray him as despondent soldier
The curious case of Glenn Greenwald vs. Wired Magazine
I love a good blog fight as much as anyone, but after reading several thousand words of accusations and counter accusations being slung between Salon blogger Glenn Greenwald and Wired's Evan Hansen and Kevin Poulsen, I'm left scratching my head trying to figure out what, exactly, this particular dispute is all about.
Dylan Ratigan interviews Julian Assange
Interviews With Freed WikiLeaks Founder
Speaking from outside Ellingham Hall, the country home outside London where he is under what his lawyer calls mansion arrest, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, expressed concerns on Friday for the mental health of Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who was detained by the military after he apparently confessed to a former computer hacker that he was the source of leaked video and documents published by WikiLeaks and news organizations this year.