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Bradley Manning Convicted of Espionage, Acquitted of 'Aiding the Enemy'

Posted by Soulskill on from the win-some-lose-some dept.

crashcy sends word that a verdict has been handed down in the case of Bradley Manning. Quoting: "A military judge on Tuesday found Pfc. Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, but convicted him of multiple counts of violating the Espionage Act. Private Manning had already confessed to being WikiLeaks’ source for a huge cache of government documents, which included videos of airstrikes in which civilians were killed, hundreds of thousands of front-line incident reports from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, dossiers on men being held without trial at the Guantánamo Bay prison, and about 250,000 diplomatic cables. But while Private Manning had pleaded guilty to a lesser version of the charges he was facing, which could expose him to up to 20 years in prison, the government decided to press forward with a trial on a more serious version of the charges, including 'aiding the enemy' and violations of the Espionage Act. Beyond the fate of Private Manning as an individual, the 'aiding the enemy' charge — unprecedented in a leak case — could have significant long-term ramifications for investigative journalism in the Internet era."

4 of 529 comments (clear)

  1. Re:He'll still die in Jail by crashcy · · Score: 5, Funny

    I hate consequitively run sentences. It's unethiquical.

  2. Re:Punitive justice by csumpi · · Score: 5, Funny

    Which ones? Like killing people with drones? You don't go to trial for stuff like that, you get the Nobel Prize for Peace.

  3. Re:NSA doesn't like the system it created??? by PolygamousRanchKid+ · · Score: 5, Funny

    Brilliant idea for a Gedankenexperiment, in the Classical Einsteinian sense of the word! Let's see if we can cast this, not in the pointer sense of the word, as a current TV reality show:

    1. Der Führer: Barack Obama
    2. Heinrich Himmler: Eric Holder
    3. Adolf Eichmann: Carmen Ortiz
    4. Josef Goebbels: Hillary Clinton
    5. Rudolf Hess (the wacky one of the boys): Anthony Weiner

    Herman Göring is up for grabs . . . your suggestions are requested!

    --
    Schroedinger's Brexit: The UK is both in and out of the EU at the same time!
  4. This all sounds slightly familiar... by Roger+W+Moore · · Score: 5, Funny

    In 2013 a crack intelligence operative was sent to prison by a military court for a crime he didn't commit. This man promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, he survives as a soldier of fortune. If you have something you need leaked, if no one else can help, and if you can find him, maybe you can hire: THE B-TEAM.

    I'm sure Julian Assange could do double duty as 'Face' and 'Howling mad Murdoch' ;-)