Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the biggest leak of state secrets in US history, is being denied a fair trial because the army is withholding from him crucial information that might prove his innocence or reduce his sentence, his defence team is arguing.
With Manning’s court-martial approaching in September, his legal team has released details of what they claim is a shocking lack of diligence on the part of the military prosecutors in affording him his basic...Read Full Story
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In the week Barack Obama received the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009, he ordered bombing attacks on Yemen, killing a reported 63 people, 28 of them children. When Obama recently announced he supported same-sex marriage, American planes had not long blown 14 Afghan civilians to bits. In both cases, the mass murder was barely news. What mattered were the cynical vacuities of a political celebrity, the product of a zeitgeist driven by the forces of consumerism and the media with the...Read Full Story
HAGERSTOWN, Md. -- An Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. government secrets to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks is seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces.Pfc. Bradley Manning's civilian defense lawyer posted the motions on his website Wednesday night. A military judge will hear oral arguments at a pretrial hearing starting June 6 at Fort Meade, Md.Read More...
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Fort Meade, Maryland (CNN) — Blaming “widespread discovery violations” by military prosecutors, Pfc. Bradley Manning’s lead lawyer, David Coombs, on Tuesday asked a military judge to dismiss all the charges against him with prejudice, which means he could not be recharged in the future.
The Army intelligence analyst is suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and State Department documents while serving in Iraq. Many of those documents ended up on the WikiLeaks...Read Full Story
Fort Meade, Maryland (CNN) — Pfc. Bradley Manning has a new military lawyer working with his civilian defense attorney as he faces charges in connection with the largest leak of classified documents in U.S. history.
The Army intelligence analyst is suspected of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified military and State Department documents while serving in Iraq. Many of those documents ended up on the WikiLeaks website.
At a hearing Tuesday, Manning requested that the two military...Read Full Story
LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will find out on Wednesday whether he can be extradited from Britain to Sweden, as the Supreme Court hands down its judgement at the end of a marathon legal battle. Britain's highest court is Assange's ...
WIKILEAKS publisher Julian Assange remains the target of a major US government criminal investigation and ... US prosecutors' claims that alleged US Army leaker private Bradley Manning dealt directly with Mr Assange and "data-mined" secret US databases ...
An Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. government secrets to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks is seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces.
Pfc. Bradley Manning's civilian defense lawyer posted the motions on his website Wednesday night. A military judge will hear oral arguments at a pretrial hearing starting June 6 at Fort Meade, Md.
Manning contends eight of the counts are unconstitutionally vague. He claims two...
Friends of Wikileaks (FoWL) is an independent social network for worldwide supporters of Wikileaks. People who join the site are paired with twelve others who speak the same language. FoWL groups from different countries have issued a statement of support for Julian Assange in advance of a United Kingdom supreme...
Ed Pilkington reports in the Guardian:
Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of being behind the biggest leak of state secrets in US history, is being denied a fair trial because the army is withholding from him crucial information that might prove his innocence or reduce his sentence, his defence team is arguing.
With Manning’s court-martial approaching in September, his legal team has released details of what they claim is a shocking lack of...
THE WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange remains the target of a US government criminal investigation and the subject of US-Australian intelligence exchanges, Australian diplomatic cables obtained by the Herald reveal. Australian diplomats have closely ...
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange has donned a mask at an event promoting a documentary about press freedom. Footage courtesy: ABC TV WITH less than a week to go before his extradition trial, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has made a rare public ...
Manning faces 22 charges relating to the transfer of a massive trove of US state secrets from military computers to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. He was arrested in May 2010 in a military base outside Baghdad, where he was working as an ...
Faced with a new round of pre-trial hearings in early June, Pfc Bradley Manning’s lawyer, David E. Coombs, has filed a number of motions, calling for the summary dismissal of 10 of the 22 charge on the grounds that they are unconstitutionally ...
Lawyers representing Bradley Manning, the Welsh-educated army analyst accused of the biggest leak of classified information in American history, are seeking the dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts he faces under a US court martial. The request was made as ...
Bradley Manning (born 1987) is a US Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified documents to the media. Manning was arrested by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in May 2010 and detained without charge for over a month in a military jail at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. In early July, two misconduct charges were brought...more
Bradley Manning (born 1987) is a US Army intelligence analyst accused of leaking classified documents to the media. Manning was arrested by the United States Army Criminal Investigation Command in May 2010 and detained without charge for over a month in a military jail at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait. In early July, two misconduct charges were brought against him for "transferring classified data onto his personal computer and adding unauthorized software to a classified computer system" and "communicating, transmitting and delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source".