Wikileaks
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.
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.
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.