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Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty To 10 Charges
Entropy98 sends this quote from the LA Times:
"Army Pfc. Bradley Edward Manning pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred highly classified U.S. government secrets, agreeing to serve [up to] 20 years in prison for causing a worldwide uproar when WikiLeaks published documents describing the inner workings of U.S. military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and around the globe. The 25-year-old soldier, however, pleaded not guilty to 12 more serious charges, including espionage for aiding the enemy, meaning that his criminal case will go forward at a general court-martial in June. If convicted at trial, he risks a sentence of life in prison at Ft. Leavenworth, Kan."
We should have offered him immunity in exchange for testifying against Wikileaks.
Uh, what? What would he have 'testified' about?
"Wikileaks is a website"
Oh please, we all know the Constitution is "just a piece of paper" and "isn't a suicide pact."
You expect our government to follow the rules that they're bound by? What do you think we are, civilized? We're Americans, fuck yeah!
You are in a maze of twisty little relative jumps, all alike.
No need for me to prove....
Spoken like a true federal prosecutor.
An enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in bacon and cheese
If this were WW2, he wouldn't have been able to walk out with gigabytes of classified data without anyone noticing. I mean, the State Department memos alone would require a wheelbarrow.
has to request toilet paper and soap on a per use basis which is sometimes granted and sometimes not.
How awesome is that? It's somebody's job to fetch him toilet paper. I bet Richard Branson doesn't even have that. Considering that all his meals are prepared and delivered and he never has to go out and run errands, it's pretty sweet.