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By Charles Davis

The US government has made an example of Bradley Manning to prevent others from challenging the American empire.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30005.htm



An Indie Film Takes Up Bradley Manning s Plight

Video

As the army private s hearing begins, this harrowing short imagines his detention.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30028.htm



Defense says Manning victim of military overreach

Defense attorney David Coombs spoke for about 20 minutes and never denied his client had leaked the documents.

http://bit.ly/uXmFsn


From Information Clearing House

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The Trial of Bradley Manning: Rule of Law or Rule of Intimidation, Retaliation and Retribution

Ann Wright, War Is A Crime: 'Bradley Manning has been imprisoned for 19 months, since May, 2010, without a trial ... Manning was charged with transferring classified information onto his personal computer and communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and 'aiding the enemy,' a capital offense ... Manning's lawyer challenged the impartiality of the investigating officer ... citing [his] civilian employment as a lawyer in the Department of Justice which has conducted investigations on Manning, Julian Assange, and Wikileaks.'

http://www.truth-out.org/trial-bradley-manning-rule-law-or-rule-intimidation-retaliation-and-retribution/1324132740

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When the bubble bursts

Antiwar.com
by Justin Raimondo

12/19/11

Secrecy is the prerequisite for tyranny, and knowledge is the tyrant s worst foe: that s why whistleblowers - from Dan Ellsberg to Bradley Manning - are relentlessly pursued and prosecuted. That s why anyone who tries to give context to their revelations - such as this web site - is attacked and spied on by the government and its shills. That s also why the sickening smear campaign launched against both Manning and Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, has taken on the dual aspects of both a witch hunt and a crusade...

http://bit.ly/upy2ko



Prosecutors use Manning hearing to send up Assange trial
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Bradley Manning Washington Post

12/22/11

Military prosecutors presented new and detailed evidence Thursday that they said showed that Pfc. Bradley Manning collaborated with Julian Assange, the founder of the anti-secrecy Web site WikiLeaks, in stealing [sic] more than 700,000 documents from classified computer systems and publishing them on the Internet. ... Manning s defense attorney, David E. Coombs, accused military prosecutors of 'over-charging' in the case in an effort to obtain a plea agreement and gain the former intelligence analyst s cooperation in a separate, federal case against Assange...

http://wapo.st/tC8eqP


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

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Bradley Manning and the Fog of War
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/21-4

Pvt. Manning and Imperative of Truth
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/12/21-6



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