Posted on 06/07/2010 4:16:27 PM PDT by Cindy
June 07, 2010
I SUPPOSE IF I SUGGESTED SUMMARY EXECUTION I WOULD BE CALLED "HARSH"?
SNIPPET: "U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe
Note that he didn't just lift a video and send it to Wikileaks. He also stole and released 260,000 classified US State Department diplomatic cables."
(Excerpt) Read more at osint.internet-haganah.com ...
http://forum.internet-haganah.com/showthread.php?501-If-you-re-going-to-mingle-with-traitors
08 January 2012, 12:43 #1
Aaron
“If you’re going to mingle with traitors...”
SNIPPET: “Laptop seizures at customs cause thorny legal dispute
There are actually no thorns in this legal dispute. Multiple court decisions have upheld the right of the USA to examine laptops and other electronic devices at ports of entry, and that includes the CBP checkpoint at the airport you land at.”
“Army rules Manning will face court-martial”
By David Dishneau - The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Feb 3, 2012 19:54:16 EST
SNIPPET: “HAGERSTOWN, Md. — An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/23/manning-faces-arraignment-in-wikileaks-case/
“Manning defers plea during arraignment in WikiLeaks case”
Published February 23, 2012
Associated Press
SNIPPET: “FORT MEADE, Maryland – An Army private deferred his plea Thursday to charges he made the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
Pfc. Bradley Manning also deferred a choice of whether to be tried by a military jury or judge alone.”
Trivia Note: Other award winners include Obama, Bill Clinton, Yasser Arafat...
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“WikiLeaks Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize”
by Katie Pavlich
News Editor, Townhall
Feb 27, 2012 01:00 PM EST
SNIPPET: “Remember Bradley Manning? The gay Army private who downloaded thousands of classified military documents to cds he labeled “Lady Gaga” and then gave them to WikiLeaks, who then published the secrets for the world to see? Well apparently the committee that selects Nobel Peace Prize winners, things Manning deserves a trophy for betraying his country.”
Note: I could be wrong about Bill Clinton winning it, but he does seem to fit the pattern of some of the more recent personality types who have been award “winners.”
Previously...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2844099/posts
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joyb.blogspot.com/2012/02/bradley-manning-nobel-peace-prize.html
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 04, 2012
“Bradley Manning Nobel Peace Prize Nomination 2012”
SNIPPET: “February 1st 2012 the entire parliamentary group of The Movement of the Icelandic Parliament nominated Private Bradley Manning for the Nobel Peace Prize.”
SNIPPET: “Sincerely,
Birgitta Jónsdóttir
Margrét Tryggvadóttir
Þór Saari
Members of the Icelandic Parliament for The Movement
Posted by Birgitta Jónsdóttir at 3:31 PM “
“Bradley Manning trial: US government ordered to release WikiLeaks damage assessments
The US government has been ordered to release its assessments on how much damage WikiLeaks’ publication of secret files caused to US interests, after lawyers for Pfc Bradley Manning argued they were essential to his defence.”
By Raf Sanchez, Fort Meade, Maryland
7:26PM BST 24 Apr 2012
SNIPPET: “The 24-year-old soldier is accused of smuggling thousands of classified military and diplomatic files to the whistle-blowing website.”
NOTE The following text is a quote:
www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=116073
Motion Hearing Opens for Alleged Document Leaker
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
FORT MEADE, Md., April 24, 2012 – The judge in the case against Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is expected to rule tomorrow on procedural issues that could have a major impact on his trial — including whether the court should dismiss all charges against the alleged classified document leaker.
Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge, presided over the first of what is expected to be three days of oral arguments during a motion hearing here.
During today’s proceedings, Manning’s defense team argued today that the government was overzealous in pursuing its case against him and should throw out all 22 charges against him. The defense, led by civilian attorney David Coombs, urged Lind today to dismiss all charges against Manning “with prejudice” — meaning that they can’t be reinstated later.
Manning, a 24-year-old military intelligence analyst, sat silently in the courtroom today, wearing his Army service uniform, between Coombs and his new military defense attorney, Army Capt. Joshua Tooman.
He is charged with charged with what officials believe is the biggest intelligence leak in U.S. history. Manning allegedly leaked hundreds of thousands of military and diplomatic documents to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, in turn, released thousands of these documents, including classified records about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, on its website.
Manning was arrested at Forward Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad, Iraq, May 25, 2010. The former 10thMountain Division soldier is accused of installing unauthorized software onto government computers to extract classified information, unlawfully downloading it, improperly storing it, and transmitting the data for public release and use by the enemy.
The specific charges, as outlined on his charge sheet, include aiding the enemy; wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that it is accessible to the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information; and fraud and related activity in connection with computers. The charges include violation of Army Regulations 25-2 “Information Assurance” and 380-5 “Department of the Army Information Security Program.”
Manning’s defense team accused the prosecution today of dragging its feet in turning over key documents it needs to provide an adequate defense, in violation of both military and federal law. Coombs claimed the military is hiding behind the fact that other government agencies — and not the Defense Department — possess many of these materials as an excuse not to share them with the defense.
Speaking for the prosecution, Army Maj. Ashden Fein told the judge today those materials, which he emphasized aren’t within control of military authorities, have been reviewed and will be turned over to the defense as soon as appropriate approval is granted.
Coombs also pressed today for access to grand jury-related documents regarding the case that military authorities have access to, including grand jury testimony. Lind said she will rule on that request tomorrow.
But Coombs argued that the time this process and the additional reviews will require — which he said essentially will restart the entire discovery process — would prevent Manning from receiving the speedy trial he is guaranteed by law. For this reason, Coombs said the entire case should be dismissed.
Much of today’s proceedings focused on damage that resulted from Manning actions, and whether it should be pertinent to the government’s case against him.
Coombs and Tooman argued in motions filed last week that Manning shouldn’t be accused of causing harm not able to be proven or quantified.
The prosecution told the court the charges against Manning should be weighed based on his actions and not their results until the case moves to sentencing. Lind said the government plans to present basic information about damages resulting from Manning’s activities at that point, balancing it against national defense interests.
Lind emphasized that the prosecution already has presented some evidence of these damages to the defense. Broadening the requirements for these disclosures too widely threatens to “graymail” this and future court cases, he said, essentially using the threat of disclosing national secrets to manipulate legal proceedings.
As a compromise measure, Lind directed the government, including the State Department and CIA, today to submit damage assessments by May 18, and said she will review them herself to determine their relevance to the case.
The Obama administration and Defense Departments have claimed that WikiLeaks’ publication of the classified documents put deployed U.S. forces at increased risk.
Aiding the enemy under Article 104 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice is a capital offense; however, the prosecution team has said it won’t recommend the death penalty, a legal official said.
If convicted of all charges, Manning would face a maximum punishment of life in prison. He also could be reduced to E-1, the lowest enlisted grade, face a total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and dishonorable discharge, officials said.
Manning’s trial date has not yet been scheduled.
Before adjourning today, Lind scheduled a closed-door session tomorrow morning with the prosecution and defense teams, with the court to begin at 10 a.m. Today’s proceedings were broadcast via closed-circuit TV to a media operations center at Fort Meade.
NOTE The following text is a quote:
www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=116100
Alleged Document Leaker’s Trial Set for September
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
FORT MEADE, Md., April 26, 2012 – Army Pfc. Bradley Manning will go to trial this fall to face charges that he leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents in what’s believed to be the largest intelligence leak in U.S. history.
Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge presiding over three days of motion hearings here, scheduled the trial to begin Sept. 21 and continue through Oct. 12.
The defense will get to decide if the case will be heard by a judge alone, by a jury to consist of all officers, or by a mixed panel that includes one third enlisted members from within Manning’s current command, the Army’s Military District of Washington.
During the hearings, Lind rejected the defense’s argument yesterday that all 22 charges against him Manning should be dismissed.
Today, she also upheld the most serious charge against him, that he aided the enemy by disclosing classified military and diplomatic documents material to the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks. WikiLeaks, in turn, released thousands of these documents, including classified records about military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, on its website.
Lind specified today that the prosecution must prove that Manning disclosed the data with a clear understanding that the enemy would have access to it.
The decision followed three days of oral arguments, with the discussion centered largely on Manning’s intent in disclosing the classified documents and what damage resulted.
The defense, led by civilian counsel David Coombs, argued that Manning never intended to aid the enemy when he provided the information to WikiLeaks.
The government called Manning’s intent immaterial and said he should be tried based solely on his actions. “Why he did something isn’t relevant,” Army Maj. Ashden Fein, the lead prosecutor, told the judge. What is relevant at this point, he said, is what Manning actually did and how he did it.
Aiding the enemy under Article 104 of the Uniformed Code of Military Justice is a capital offense; however, the prosecution team has said it won’t recommend the death penalty, a legal official said.
The maximum sentence Manning could receive, if found guilty of the charge, is life in prison.
He also could be reduced to E-1, the lowest enlisted grade, face a total forfeiture of all pay and allowances and dishonorable discharge, officials said.
Lind upheld other lesser charges against Manning, rejecting the defense’s claim the government imposed “unreasonable multiplication of charges,” essentially piling on duplicate charges for the same acts. She said she found no evidence that the prosecution exaggerated Manning’s criminality or otherwise “overreached” in compiling charges against him.
The judge did, however, leave the door open for combining charges in the event that Manning is found guilty and the case moves into the sentencing phase. This could reduce the length of any sentence imposed, a military legal official explained.
The defense team reiterated its call for the government to provide assessments of damages actually caused by the disclosures, calling this information critical to its case. Coombs argued today that the government’s failure to provide a full accounting of harm done demonstrates that the disclosures actually had minimal impact.
Fein said the burden of proving actual damages isn’t the government’s responsibility, and that that information, should it be considered at all, should be reserved until sentencing.
Lind did not say when she will rule on the defense’s request for damage assessments. She said she will review these documents personally to determine if the defense team should have access to them.
The judge also has yet to consider a new prosecution request to reconsider her directive that the State Department share its interim damage assessment report findings.
Lind ruled yesterday that the prosecution does not have to provide the defense team transcripts of federal grand jury testimony regarding the WikiLeaks case. Although the FBI has been involved in the WikiLeaks investigation, the judge said the military has no authority to release the FBI information.
Manning sat emotionless in the courtroom wearing his Army service uniform during the three days of oral arguments. He followed the proceedings closely, periodically jotting notes on a yellow pad or leaning toward Coombs or his new military defense attorney, Army Capt. Joshua Tooman, to whisper a comment or peek at a document.
The 24-year-old military intelligence analyst was arrested at Contingency Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad, Iraq, May 25, 2010. A former 10th Mountain Division soldier, he is accused of installing unauthorized software onto government computers to extract classified information, unlawfully downloading it, improperly storing it, and transmitting the data for public release and use by the enemy.
The specific charges, as outlined on his charge sheet, include aiding the enemy; wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet knowing that it is accessible to the enemy; theft of public property or records; transmitting defense information; and fraud and related activity in connection with computers. The charges include violation of Army Regulations 25-2 “Information Assurance” and 380-5 “Department of the Army Information Security Program.”
Manning has not issued a plea on these charges.
Along with the trial dates, Lind scheduled additional hearings related to the case: June 6 to 8; July 16 to 20; Aug. 27 to 31; and Sept. 19 to 20. The hearings will focus on specific elements related to each charge to ensure a common understanding as both sides prepare their cases, as well as other procedural items.
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-bradley-manning-wikileaks-bin-laden-2013-1
“US Government Says WikiLeaks Material Was Found At Osama Bin Laden’s Safe House”
Michael Kelley | Jan. 10, 2013, 10:04 AM
SNIPPET: “On Wednesday military prosecutors in the case of former Army intelligence analyst Bradley Manning said they would introduce evidence that WikiLeaks materials Manning is accused of passing to Julian Assange were found at Osama bin Laden’s safe house, Scott Shane of the New York Times reports.”
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/bin-laden-wikileaks-material-article-1.1237371
“Osama bin Laden got classified cables Bradley Manning passed to Wikileaks: prosecutors”
SNIPPET: “Military prosecutors said an Al Qaeda member gave some of the leaked material to the terror boss after he asked for it. Prosecutors also said they had logs showing Manning and Wikileaks head Julian Assange ‘laughing’ about the Pentagon’s response to Wikileaks.”
BY PHILIP CAULFIELD / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
PUBLISHED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013, 11:28 AM
UPDATED: THURSDAY, JANUARY 10, 2013, 12:19 PM
tch tch
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/02/28/manning-offers-pleas-to-judge-in-wikileaks-case/
“Bradley Manning pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case”
Published February 28, 2013
Associated Press
http://sofrep.com/22375/cloaked-testimony-of-seal-team-6-in-the-bradley-manning-case/
“Cloaked Testimony of SEAL Team 6 in The Bradley Manning Case”
by George Will · June 25, 2013 · Posted In: NSWC, SOF News
http://news.sky.com/story/1110835/bradley-manning-trial-prosecution-rests-case
“Bradley Manning Trial: Prosecution Rests Case
Bradley Manning’s defence team will begin its case next week after prosecutors finish presenting evidence in the WikiLeaks trial.”
10:25pm UK, Tuesday 02 July 2013
By Sky News US Team
SNIPPET: “Prosecutors closed after presenting evidence from 80 witnesses, trying to prove Pfc Bradley Manning let military secrets fall into the hands of al Qaeda and its former leader Osama bin Laden.
The 25-year-old former Army intelligence analyst is charged with 21 offences, including aiding the enemy, which carries a possible life sentence.
To prove that charge, prosecutors must show Manning gave intelligence to the anti-secrecy website, knowing it would be published online and seen by an enemy of the United States.
Manning has acknowledged sending more than 700,000 Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and State Department diplomatic cables, along with several battlefield video clips, to WikiLeaks while working in Baghdad from November 2009 through May 2010.”
Previously...
“US Government Says WikiLeaks Material Was Found At Osama Bin Laden’s Safe House” (January 10, 2013)
NOTE The following text is a quote:
www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=120542
Prosecution, Defense in Manning Case Make Closing Arguments
By David Vergun
Army News Service
FORT MEADE, Md., July 29, 2013 – Army Pfc. Bradley Manning’s release of classified material did immeasurable harm to national security and put lives at risk, the prosecutor in the soldier’s court-martial here said during his closing arguments July 25.
The next day though, Manning’s defense attorney argued the accused was a young, naïve but well-intentioned soldier who wanted to make a difference for the better by bringing to light wrongs that were done during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Manning, now 25, was an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010, working in a tactical-sensitive compartmented information facility, or T-SCIF, at Forward Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad. A SCIF is a restricted facility where secret materials are transmitted, collected and analyzed.
The prosecutor, Army Maj. Ashden Fein, stated that the facts clearly pointed to Manning’s culpability, while the defense, led by David Coombs, argued that the prosecution’s charges amounted to “diatribes not based in facts.”
At the start of the trial on June 3, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of the 21 original charges regarding having leaked classified information to the WikiLeaks organization, which then made the documents accessible to the public on the Internet and through media outlets such as the New York Times, the United Kingdom-based The Guardian and the Germany-based Der Spiegel.
Even the term “media” was argued, with the prosecution saying the WikiLeaks organization was not a legitimate news outlet and the defense arguing that it was.
Despite Manning’s guilty plea to 10 of the charges, prosecutors went forward with the other 11 charges against him. Those charges stated that he leaked secret documents that he clearly knew from his intelligence training to be harmful to the United States and would result in putting lives at risk.
The charges to which Manning pleaded guilty could result in a maximum possible prison sentence of 20 years. The most serious of the 11 other contested charges, “aiding the enemy,” could result in a life sentence if the judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, finds him guilty and gives him the maximum penalty. Even if she finds Manning guilty, his sentence will be reviewed by the Military District of Washington commander, Army Maj. Gen. Jeffery S. Buchanan.
Manning chose to have a trial by the judge alone, rather than a trial by a panel, which is the military’s version of a jury.
Manning’s rigorous and thorough training as an intelligence analyst instilled in him the importance significant activities, or SIGACTS, have on whether soldiers succeed in battle, fail or are killed, said Fein, the prosecutor.
Yet despite this knowledge, Manning downloaded some 470,000 SIGACTS from the SIPRNET to a memory card, which he later transferred to his home computer. Some 380,000 documents were from Iraq, and 90,000 were from Afghanistan.
The SIPRNET is the military’s classified section of the Internet.
In addition to SIGACTS, Manning released Apache attack helicopter videos and thousands of State Department cables, Fein said. A SIGACT, he explained, could include anything from where an attack or improvised explosives device detonated to how an attack helicopter engages the enemy and numbers of casualties resulting from an ambush or IED.
He said commanders decide their main supply routes, plan their battles and base other tactical decisions on SIGACTS, which are even plotted on maps to provide a clear picture of where dangers, as well as where opportunities lie.
If the enemy gets these SIGACTS, they will have access to the Army’s “playbook” and can then deduce the tactics, techniques and procedures, or TTP, used and can devise effective countermeasures or adjust fires, Fein said.
A number of foreign governments would gladly pay millions of dollars to have this sort of information, Fein added.
Having released the information soon after deploying to Iraq, Manning “basked in the amount of press he was receiving” and even posed and smiled in a photo he had taken of himself, holding his memory card containing the data, Fein said.
He clearly was on an ego trip and knew the information he’d released would harm U.S. national security, Fein said, adding that Manning even wiped his machine seven times during a three-hour period to ensure his tracks were covered. Wiping a machine means deleting everything on it. Traces of information often remain so multiple wipes are preferred as a more effective scrub.
In short, Fein said, Manning “wanted to be hailed as famous” without regard for the lives of his fellow soldiers. “The flag meant nothing to him,” he added.
Coombs, Manning’s attorney, said Manning had access to the entire SIPRNET, which contains millions of documents, and that he probably could have downloaded and released the entire SIPRNET. Yet, he selectively chose to download and pass on only those secret documents that he felt would show how U.S. policy exploited third-world countries and harmed a lot of innocent lives, he said.
If Americans learned about what their government
was doing, Manning truly believed they’d see the light and demand changes, Coombs said.
Coombs argued as well that classified documents were arbitrarily labeled “secret,” and that most released by Manning could arguably be deemed appropriate for declassification by any reasonable person.
Far from being a traitor, Manning was acting in a way he thought was patriotic, Coombs said, citing recorded conversations Manning had with his friend Lauren McNamara, and with Adrian Lamo, the man who ultimately turned him in to the FBI.
Wiping his computer seven times was normal procedure, Coombs said, as the software often got corrupted and had to be reinstalled. Additionally, Manning continued to use his computer to gain classified materials for several months and never subsequently wiped it, the defense attorney said.
As to TTPs, playbook and SIGACTS, Coombs said those and other terms are “buzzwords” designed to cast aspersions on Manning. In fact, the enemy already was adjusting fires and adapting based on their own observations, and doing so effectively, he said.
Coombs said WikiLeaks was a legitimate news organization, having been recognized with journalistic awards, vetting its sources and publishing information that turned out to be highly accurate. The press, including WikiLeaks, has a responsibility to provide government oversight as part of its Constitutional 1st Amendment rights, he added.
The Watergate scandal that led to President Richard M. Nixon’s 1974 resignation never would have been brought to light had it not been for intrepid journalists, the defense attorney told the judge.
Coombs concluded that there is absolutely zero proof Manning ever even hinted that he was knowingly aiding the enemy. “He really did care what happened to people and hoped to spark a worldwide debate with discussions and reforms,” he said.
In addition to the charge of “aiding the enemy,” which carries a life sentence, the 20 other charges Manning faces could result in a combined maximum sentence of 154 years in prison.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/157070149/Army-Statement-on-Bradley-Manning-Verdict
News Release
The U.S. Army Military District of Washington
Guardians of the Nation’s Capital
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 13-31 DATE: July 30, 2013
“VERDICT ANNOUNCED INUNITED STATES VS. PFC. BRADLEY E. MANNING”
WASHINGTON
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http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/manning-guilty-20-charges-not-aiding-enemy
“Manning guilty of 20 charges, not aiding the enemy”
July 30, 2013 - 9:37 PM
BY DAVID DISHNEAU AND PAULINE JELINEK, Associated Press
SNIPPET: “FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — In a split decision, U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted Tuesday of aiding the enemy — the most serious charge he faced — but was convicted of espionage, theft and nearly every other count for giving secrets to WikiLeaks, a verdict that could see him spend the rest of his life in prison.”
NOTE The following text is a quote:
defense.gov/News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=120655
Judge Sentences Manning to 35 Years of Confinement
From a Military District of Washington News Release
FORT MEADE, Md., Aug. 21, 2013 – Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning was sentenced here today to 35 years of confinement, reduction to the lowest enlisted rank, a dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay and allowances for his July 30 conviction on a variety of charges related to publication of government information on the WikiLeaks website.
Army Col. Denise Lind, the presiding judge in Manning’s general court-martial, granted credit for time served of 1,182 days for pretrial confinement and 112 days of additional pretrial confinement credit.
Manning was tried and sentenced by military judge alone by his request. He pleaded guilty to 10 separate offenses, but ultimately was found guilty of 20 offenses, including seven specifications of wrongful possession and transmission of national defense information, five specifications of theft of government information, two specifications of unauthorized access to a government computer and wrongful possession and transmission of protected government information, five specifications of violation of lawful regulations related to his computer use and storage of classified information, and one specification of wrongful publication of U.S. intelligence information.
The court-martial now is in the post-trial and appellate phase, in which the government will compile a complete and accurate record of the trial and review the findings and sentence, officials said. Manning has the right to petition the convening authority for clemency during the post-trial phase, they added.
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