chelsea manning

May 17 release date. Thank God, figuratively. This is one sorry chapter in America. A step in the right direction.

I see that Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty Thursday to 10 charges that he illegally acquired and transferred U.S. government secrets, and could get 20 years in prison for leaking classified material to WikiLeaks that described U.S. military and diplomatic efforts in Iraq, Afghanistan and...

The mystery about how Bradley Manning, a new recruit without any noticeable skills or education was able to obtain data dumps of the Iraq War Diary, the Afghan War Diary, the State Department cables, large numbers of Gitmo case histories and various videos from the directories of JAG officers...

Bradley Manning supporters welcome UK government's expression of concern The Guardian (UK) :cool:

Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks' alleged source, faces 22 new charges As an intelligence analyst, Manning would be well aware of the penalties of this behavior and his legal recourse for reporting perceived wrongdoing by the government. I just hope that moving forward the poor SOB is also aware...

Extracts from article, linked below": Solitary confinement is ... a method of inflicting traumatic injury upon the human mind. “It’s an awful thing, solitary,” wrote former Vietnam prisoner John McCain in Faith of My Fathers. “It crushes your spirit and weakens your resistance more effectively...

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/opinions/view/opinion/The-Web-Braces-for-Biggest-Wikileaks-Dump-to-Date-4992

OK, I have thought about what happened with the document spill this week, and though I initially thought it might be a good thing to expose that collateral deaths were rather larger than reported to us, I have decided that a worse harm will likely result from this disclosure. In the...

Army intelligence analyst SPC Bradley Manning felt strongly enough about what he saw in Iraq that he passed secret video and documents to WikiLeaks who made the material public. He risked prosecution and he's lost that gamble. He's joined FBI agent Coleen Rowley who, after 9/11, blew the...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia_pacific/10254072.stm I'm not sure on what to say here.