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Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea To Military Court

Posted by timothy on from the ok-but-you-had-it-coming dept.

concealment writes "During a pre-trial hearing in military court today, [alleged Wikileaks source Bradley] Manning's attorney, David Coombs, proposed a partial guilty plea covering a subset of the slew of criminal charges that the U.S. Army has lodged against him. "Manning is attempting to accept responsibility for offenses that are encapsulated within, or are a subset of, the charged offenses," Coombs wrote on his blog this evening. "The court will consider whether this is a permissible plea.""

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  1. Re:Good: he's guilty and so is Assange by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    They weren't secrets, it was evidence. Evidence of the crimes committed by military personnel. Anyone else who knew of the evidence, that didn't speak up, that didn't bring it forward, was aiding and abetting criminals. Period.

    So you and your "unpopular view" can go fuck yourself. He did the right and legal thing.

    Everyone else who knew about should be charged (And convicted and sentenced) with the crimes listed in the evidence, period!

  2. Re:Fascist bloodlust by h4rr4r · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So if some horrible atrocity occurs we should never find out because the few generals decided so?

    I would rather the military suffer some disturbance of order than there be no check at on them.