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Truthout
by Shay Totten

12/24/10

You?ve probably heard of Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange. Maybe even Bradley Manning, the Army private and former intelligence officer who allegedly turned over thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks. But chances are you don?t know the name Thomas Drake, a former Vermonter charged under the Espionage Act for mishandling classified information. His alleged crime? Drake blew the whistle on a wasteful surveillance program within the National Security Agency...

http://www.truth-out.org/keep-state-secrets66236



Who will free Bradley Manning?

CounterPunch
by Eric Patton

12/27/10

If the left hasn?t figured out how to free Mumia, Peltier, or Lynne Stewart, why should anyone believe it will free Manning? The left will fail to free Manning, and then it will flit on to its next cause celebre.The right doesn?t operate this way. And actually, neither does the left. The right knows what it wants. The left only thinks it knows what it wants. What the left really wants is to be able to solicit donations, raise money, and get paid...

http://counterpunch.org/patton12272010.html



The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired

Bradley Manning Salon
by Glenn Greenwald

12/27/10

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. ... it is just inconceivable that someone who claims to be a 'journalist' -- or who wants to be regarded as one -- would actively conceal from the public, for months on end, the key evidence in a political story that has generated headlines around the world...

http://salon.com/a/sdSEfAA


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bradley Manning's Holiday Statement
http://www.armycourtmartialdefense.info/2010/12/mannings-holiday-statement.html


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