Bradley Manning, Soldier Accused Of Leaking Secrets To WikiLeaks, Flown To US

WASHINGTON — The Army intelligence specialist charged with leaking U.S. military secrets to the WikiLeaks website has been moved from Kuwait to a military jail in Virginia.

In a statement Friday, the Army said Pvt. Bradley Manning was flown Thursday to Quantico Marine Base where he will be held while awaiting trial for leaking top-secret military intelligence to WikiLeaks.

The 22-year-old intelligence analyst is accused of leaking a classified helicopter cockpit video of a 2007 firefight in Baghdad that left a Reuters photographer and his driver dead.

He's also come under suspicion in the leak of tens of thousands of secret Afghanistan war logs WikiLeaks posted this week on the Internet.

Comments

[BcemXAHA]

05:35 PM on 08/01/2010

Military tribunal for this donkey! put him away forever!

[BikeFreak]

10:17 PM on 08/01/2010

Why?

For letting people know what's really happening?

[BcemXAHA]

07:20 AM on 08/02/2010

NO!

For putting people's life in danger and acting irresponsibly.

[BcemXAHA]

07:20 AM on 08/02/2010

p.s. for endangering US Soldier life and for serving in the US but acting against it.

[mtaylor90028]

05:35 PM on 08/01/2010

Bradley Manning is a hero and on the side of God and Humanity unlike the Satanists who run USA.

[WTFbush]

07:04 PM on 08/01/2010

The modicum of credability you had, went out the window with that comment.

[BikeFreak]

10:19 PM on 08/01/2010

I agree.

[MarcEdward]

03:32 PM on 08/01/2010

Keep in mind, Obama refuses to uphold our laws against torture.
Obama lets war criminals walk free while he's going to lock this mook up.
All hail President Barack W Obama!

[valley boy]

04:53 PM on 08/01/2010

As long as we're "talking" in disjointed blatherings which qualify you to be a super communicator, it might interest you to know that I'm not interested in your every brain burp on any subject you think your an expert. Come up with something concrete other than sarcasm and criticism hidden as humor, or at least put a question mark on it so we can know you're really just blabbing your grocery list of political talking points to your bluetooth.

[mtaylor90028]

05:36 PM on 08/01/2010

Obama sure does continue to allow the laws to be broken. With torture, illegal immigration, etc. You name it, you got it. He is Bush part II.

[inlight1]

02:37 PM on 08/01/2010

This guy decided that Americans have a right to know how the war in Afghanistan is going.
Hope there are people there to protect him from what the Pentagon plans to do to him.
He is a hero for America but not for the those who gave us Viet Nam.

[IMOPINIONH8D]

03:07 PM on 08/01/2010

I hope they shoot him for treason.Releasing important documents during a war, sorry this guy needs to be shot.

[MarcEdward]

03:28 PM on 08/01/2010

We are not at war.
You don't know what you're talking about.
FAIL

[mtaylor90028]

05:37 PM on 08/01/2010

so when will the War on "terror" be over? when will we the tax payers get in on the info of what's going on?

[BcemXAHA]

04:07 PM on 08/01/2010

Hope there are people there to protect him from what the Pentagon plans to do to him.*

Did you by any chance hope that those innocent people who's names he leaked, and their families are going to be safe and protected too?

[WTFbush]

02:19 PM on 08/01/2010

You know what really scares me about this leak? When was the last time you saw ALL major news networks agree to anything and have ALL thier talking heads doing damage control.

They ALL tried to minimize what the information was the very next day! How could anyone have the opportunity to read all of thise documents in such a short amount of time.

PLUS - I wonder if Manning himself even knew what the actual contents of the intelligence reports that he leaked contained.

Hmmm.....

[MarcEdward]

03:29 PM on 08/01/2010

War is good for ratings.
Look how happy they are when we have a war and they make up new "war" graphics, music, etc.
If 90% of the American media leaders were sunk to the bottom of the ocean, it'd be a good start.

[WTFbush]

04:41 PM on 08/01/2010

Now THAT would be news! and good news at that.

"This just in.....the sail boat "US Yellow Journalism" has sunk in the B/P Oil laddened waters of the Gulf of mexico...thankfully, all the talking heads are gone.

This is Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Morrow and Bill Moyers, Good Night "

[WTFbush]

01:47 PM on 08/01/2010

Flown to the U.S. ?? I think that he shold be sent to an infantry unit at an outpost in Afganistan. They need Intel people as much as the Taliban do.

[SheikPA]

12:36 PM on 08/01/2010

Water Board him

[mtaylor90028]

05:38 PM on 08/01/2010

Give him a Medal of Freedom!

[BikeFreak]

10:20 PM on 08/01/2010

"When governments fear the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny." - Thomas Jefferson

[Gatormouth]

10:53 AM on 08/01/2010

This is a test. Let's see if this is what I keep getting bounced for. It would mean HP is told to scrub news somebody wants forgotten.

Google "Sealand Express" and "Table Bay"
This shows how news was handled in 2003. Bet you haven't seen it.

[GreenCanadian]

10:41 AM on 08/01/2010

Anyone condemning this young man for telling the truth needs to go examine their conscience. If the truth about the war in Afghanistan is offensive to you in any way, oppose the war not the people who showed us the truth. The people who put soldiers lives at risk are the ones sending them to foreign countries to prop up yet another despicable regime. This goes for my Government too. If these leaked files can be the catalyst that ends the war and begins the reconstruction efforts then Manning and Assange have done us all an immeasurable service.

[WTFbush]

01:58 PM on 08/01/2010

Speaking as an American combat veteran, having been on the receiving end of bullets and mortars. I respectfully disagree with you on Mr. Manning and Mr. Assange.

I do however, agree with you in my hope for Peace. Anyone that has experienced war for the horror that it truly is, would never want anyone else to experience it.

I do not think that it is fair or descent to the Afgan people to abandon them AGAIN. Do people remember how happy the Afganis were when the Taliban was booted from power? (Befor numb-nuts decided to invade Iraq) They shaved their beards, played music, rejoiced, women and men danced.

Well they won't be dancing when the Taliban comes back to town, because they will be dead.

[MarcEdward]

03:31 PM on 08/01/2010

Maybe we could have "settled" Afghanistan 7 years ago, but Bush screwed it up.
There is nothing we can do to "save Afghanistan from the Taliban", other than put off the recognition of the facts on the ground.

[mtaylor90028]

05:39 PM on 08/01/2010

I think you are full of it

[GC1301]

10:37 AM on 08/01/2010

The US had no business invading Afghanistan and should get out ASAP. We are accomplishing zero. The private had no right leaking the information and broke the law; he deserves the consequences. The US government needs to do a better job in deciding what needs to be a secret; otherwise these leaks will continue to occur.

[biabouman41]

10:19 AM on 08/01/2010

It appears this is a case of education but no common sense. I do not have a problem with the helicopter cockpit video but the 90,000 documents is very problematic for the safety of our troops and those Afghans who work on behalf of the USA. Clearly you cannot compromise security like this and I suspect it has more to do with his ability to do it than anything else: education but no common sense.

In any event, the authorities need to hold it together here. No sense prosecuting this guy to the max, but use his internet abilities to help secure military security for a reduction in sentence. It is clear that there are many gaping holes in genuine military secrets and I am sure that the Chinese in particular know everything there is to be known about US military operations just from their ability to technically worm their way through our systems.

Time to buck up.

[bkmur]

10:17 AM on 08/01/2010

Pvt. Manning and Mr. Assange may have saved more lives by exposing the truth than the military has by trying to hide the facts and punish the truth tellers. Freedom isn't free. Patriotism comes in many expressions. Thank you gentlemen. Godspeed.

[MVeeh]

10:39 AM on 08/01/2010

Nicely put. It may be more about doing the right thing than anything else. Heroic in many ways

[BcemXAHA]

05:35 PM on 08/01/2010

Really? say that to the people who's names are all over the place!

[BikeFreak]

10:22 PM on 08/01/2010

If they did nothing wrong they have nothing to worry about.

[Trampas Graham]

10:16 AM on 08/01/2010

I would like to personally congratulate this brave man for honoring the Truth. Give him a medal and get our troops out of the "graveyard of empires'.

[dlo2]

10:05 AM on 08/01/2010

In this conflagration we have seen our military so traumatized by the incidents in Iraq and Afghanistan that suicide among our soldiers is now much more commonplace than in the civilian population. Could these despondent souls have once verbalized what brought them to end their precious lives ... was it the unspoken horrors that they saw.. up close and personal. We need to think deeply and soberly about this situation and recognize that much has yet to be uncovered and perhaps what needs to be revealed is beginning to be apparent to the American people. Still we need independent media, a current oxymoron during these times, to uncover what has gone on over there and what is going on presently. During the Vietnam War, we only found out belatedly of the horrors...Everyone should consider calling their congressional and senate representatives to create momentum to apply existing antimonopolistic laws for a new media and begin to establish and promote funds for an genuine independent competitive media/survivable public domain.. to get background and truths to the American people. Leon Wieseltier in his book, Afghanistan-What's Next "Losing Faith" stated "compared to Afghanistan, Iraq is Sausalito....and "if Afghanistan does not significantly resist that darkness for itself - "on its own," in Petraeus's haunting words--its people will vanish into it anyway. For as long as Afghanistan will be ambiguous, our war will be ambiguous."

[rkt9]

09:42 AM on 08/01/2010

This young man is a national hero, and should be given the medal of honor! Obama promised transparency, glad to see one of his staff, has the balls to give it to us! Oh yes, and I have heard that the release of this material may be endangering our soldiers who are presently serving in the Armed Forces. This is not true, continued involvement in a flawed, and impulsive war is what really endangers our children indoctrinated to become warriors, and career military citizens.

[mtaylor90028]

05:41 PM on 08/01/2010

heh. I wrote something just like this. Anyhow, seconded.
Obama promised change and promised more transparency in his admin.Bradley was simply fulfilling Obama's promise.