Tuesday, July 30, 2013

Breaking: Bradley Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy

From WaPo:
An Army judge has acquitted Pfc. Bradley Manning of aiding the enemy by disclosing a trove of secret U.S. government documents, a striking rebuke to military prosecutors who argued that the largest leak in U.S. history had assisted al-Qaeda.

The judge found Manning guilty of most of the other charges

Developing...

UPDATE 1

Via WaPo:
The judge, Col. Denise Lind, found Manning guilty of most of the more than 20 crimes he was charged with. She also acquitted him of one count of the espionage act that stemmed from his leak of a video that depicted a fatal U.S. military airstrike in Farah, Afghanistan.[...]

Had Manning been convicted of aiding the enemy, Manning would have faced a life sentence in prison without the possibility of parole. Civil libertarians saw the prospect of a conviction on that charge, which has not been used since the Civil War, as a dangerous precedent that could have would have sent an unmistakable message to would-be government whistle-blowers.

The sentencing phase of the trial at Fort Meade outside Baltimore will begin Wednesday.

UPDATE 2



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