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Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 charges but denies 'aiding the enemy' (guardian.co.uk)
10 points by yesbabyyes on Feb 28, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


"Through his lawyer, David Coombs, the soldier pleaded guilty to 10 lesser charges that included possessing and wilfully communicating to an unauthorised person all the main elements of the WikiLeaks disclosure. That covered the so-called "collateral murder" video of an Apache helicopter attack in Iraq; some US diplomatic cables including one of the early WikiLeaks publications the Reykjavik cable; portions of the Iraq and Afghanistan warlogs, some of the files on detainees in Guantanamo; and two intelligence memos."

How is any one of those not under the protection of whistleblower laws? If they aren't, shouldn't they be? And being guilty of leaking warlogs? Isn't that what happened with the Pentagon Papers? Something tells me that if he would've sent all of that to NYT, things would be a lot different.


According to WikiLeaks, he tried to send it to NYT as well as WP, but they "rebuffed" him:

Manning on stand says tried to send info to Washington Post and NYT - they rebuffed him. Then he turned to WikiLeaks.

https://twitter.com/wikileaks/status/307168010483933184




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