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Army Officer: Court-Martial Bradley Manning

He recommends trial on all counts in WikiLeaks case

(Newser) - An Army officer recommended a general court-martial today for alleged Wiki-Leaker Bradley Manning. The recommendation to try Manning on all 22 counts, including aiding the enemy, now goes up the chain of command. Lt. Col. Paul Almanza sent his report to Col. Carl Coffman, who will make a recommendation to...

Manning WikiLeaks Hearing Ends

Court-martial opinion due next month

(Newser) - Bradley Manning's court hearing ended today almost a week after it began . Prosecutors revealed an alleged al-Qaeda propaganda video that featured militants describing how they used leaked documents to their advantage. Manning, prosecutors said, "aided in the publication of those files, knowing that our enemies would use...

Prosecution Links Manning to Assange

Recovered files put Manning in 'serious trouble': expert

(Newser) - Prosecutors unveiled a damning litany of evidence yesterday at a pretrial hearing linking Bradley Manning to the massive leak of government materials posted on WikiLeaks, reports the Washington Post. The trove includes chat logs between Manning and Julian Assange, testimony that Manning's computers contained more than 100,000 State...

Manning Hearing Turns Secret, Supporters Outraged

Two witnesses have also declined to testify, on self-incrimination grounds

(Newser) - Bradley Manning’s pretrial hearing was closed to the public today, with media and spectators forced out of the courtroom so that an Army special agent who had examined Manning’s computers could testify about classified information. The move drew criticism from WikiLeaks supporters, particularly the Center for Constitutional Rights,...

Bradley Manning Military Hearing Enters 3rd Day

Witnesses describe lax security, scuffle with fellow analyst

(Newser) - Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing rolled on today with witnesses testifying about lax US military security and a scuffle Manning had with a fellow soldier, CNN reports. Prosecution witnesses said Manning, an "outcast" in his Iraqi unit, should have lost his security clearance after assaulting a female intelligence analyst,...

Bradley Manning Heads to Court

In chat logs, Wikileaker wanted 'people to see the truth'

(Newser) - Bradley Manning will at last head to court today, for a pre-trial hearing in which prosecutors must prove they have sufficient evidence to court-martial him. The charges against him include aiding the enemy, violating the Espionage Act, and a variety of lesser offenses, the Washington Post reports. While aiding the...

Bradley Manning Wants Obama, Clinton as Witnesses

Preliminary hearing begins Dec. 16

(Newser) - Bradley Manning's preliminary hearing is set to begin Dec. 16, and if the US Army private has his way, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton will be among the witnesses. The president and the secretary of state were included on a 20-page list of defense witnesses in a request made...

Cops Thwart Firebomb Attack on Berlin Station

Leftists demand end to Afghan war, call for Bradley Manning release

(Newser) - Police thwarted a firebomb attack on Berlin's central train station yesterday after a worker discovered several incendiary devices hooked up to detonators. The planned attack was claimed by a leftist group protesting Germany's involvement in the Afghan war and demanding the release of suspected WikiLeaks source US Private...

Bradley Manning Considered Switching His Gender

'Bradley felt he was female': counselor

(Newser) - Bradley Manning “felt he was female," and looked into changing his gender, his former counselor tells New York . Though the suspected WikiLeaker “really wanted to do surgery,” the counselor says, “he was mostly afraid of being alone, being ostracized or somehow weird.” Manning used...

Manning a 'Wreck' Army Shouldn't Have Sent to Iraq

Soldier underwent psych evaluations regularly, given to outbursts

(Newser) - Bradley Manning never should have been let near Iraq, much less the classified trove he spilled to WikiLeaks, reports the Guardian in a look at the Army private's mental health. "He was harassed so much that he once pissed in his sweatpants," says an anonymous officer from...

Bradley Manning Will Be Housed With Other Inmates

WikiLeaks suspect passes psychological tests at Fort Leavenworth

(Newser) - Looks like better conditions for accused WikiLeaker Bradley Manning: The Army said today that he passed an array of physical and psychological tests and will be allowed contact with other inmates at Fort Leavenworth, reports AP . Manning, still awaiting trial, will have his own cell but will get access to...

Protesters Break Into Song During Obama Fundraiser

'Free Bradley Manning' campaign ponies up big bucks to confront president

(Newser) - Bradley Manning supporters made an expensive (and well rehearsed) statement yesterday, interrupting a $5,000-a-head Obama fundraiser by breaking into song. “Alone in a 6x12 cell sits Bradley / 23 hours a day is night / The 5th and 8th Amendments say this kind of thing ain’t right,...

Army Will Transfer Manning to New Prison

Pentagon says it's not because of criticism

(Newser) - WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning will be transferred from maximum-security Quantico to medium-security Fort Leavenworth in Kansas, reports AP . The move comes after human rights groups complained of unduly rough treatment for the Army private, though the Pentagon said the decision should not be seen as a concession, notes Politico . Manning'...

UN Torture Watchdog: I Want to See Manning

Pentagon is blocking unmonitored visit, official complains

(Newser) - The United Nations' torture watchdog is accusing the US of stonewalling him in his attempts to visit suspected WikiLeaker Bradley Manning. "I am deeply disappointed and frustrated by the prevarication of the US government with regard to my attempts to visit Mr. Manning," said UN official Juan Mendez....

Manning's Life Before WikiLeaks: Fights, a 911 Call

Inside the troubled childhood of alleged WikiLeaker

(Newser) - Even before he found himself thrown in the brig for allegedly handing over classified material to WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning led a troubled life in rural Oklahoma. PBS talks to Manning's family and friends, including a lengthy interview with father Brian Manning, and discovers that as a child, Manning had few...

Pentagon Papers Leaker Arrested at Manning Protest

34 others nabbed at rally against 'torture' of suspected WikiLeaker

(Newser) - Pentagon Papers-leaker Daniel Ellsberg and 34 other activists were busted yesterday at a rally protesting the treatment of suspected WikiLeaker Bradley Manning. Hundreds attended the demonstration at the Quantico Marine base in Virginia, where Manning is being held in solitary confinement. Protesters were arrested when they refused to follow orders...

Doctor Group Blasts Manning's Shrinks

Military psychiatrists not doing their duty, group charges

(Newser) - The military psychiatrists treating Bradley Manning are violating their ethical duties, according to a leading group of doctors. The advocacy group Physicians for Human Rights says that by allowing the accused WikiLeaker to be kept in solitary confinement in a military brig, the psychiatrists are not doing their duty as...

Dana Milbank: Bradley Manning No Hero, But He Deserves Pants
 Even Bradley Manning 
 Deserves Underwear 
Dana Milbank
Mar 15, 2011 11:22 AM CDT

Even Bradley Manning Deserves Underwear

Dana Milbank doesn't think Manning is a hero, but pants are still in order

(Newser) - A group of mostly naked men and other protesters gathered outside the State Department yesterday to decry the treatment of Bradley Manning, who’s been forced to remove his boxers every night lest he kill himself with them. “This is ridiculous,” writes Dana Milbank of the Washington Post...

PJ Crowley Resigns
PJ Crowley Resigns
Mar 13, 2011 2:32 PM CDT

PJ Crowley Resigns

State Department spokesperson called Bradley Manning's treatment 'ridiculous'

(Newser) - Just days after news came out that State Department spokesperson PJ Crowley had called Bradley Manning’s treatment “ridiculous and counterproductive and stupid,” Crowley has resigned. Sources tell CNN Crowley’s resignation today was the result of pressure from an angry White House. He will be replaced by...

Obama Says Treatment of WikiLeaker Is 'Appropriate'

State Dept. spokesman calls Bradley Manning conditions 'ridiculous'

(Newser) - President Obama today refuted accusations of the mistreatment of Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of giving documents to WikiLeaks. He said he had "actually asked the Pentagon whether or not the procedures that have been taken in terms of his confinement are appropriate and are meeting our basic...

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