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Bradley Manning Trial

Matt Sledge

24 Witnesses Will Testify In Secret In Bradley Manning Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.21.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. -- The military judge overseeing the trial of Bradley Manning ruled Tuesday that "there are no alternatives to closure" of the court d...

Matt Sledge

Bradley Manning Supporters Forced To Crowdfund Court Stenographer

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 05.10.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Fed up with the military's limits on access to the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who has admitted to sending hundreds...

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Military Court Slams Door On Transparency In Bradley Manning Trial

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- Lawyers may appeal a ruling made by the military's highest court that they say slams the door on transparency in the Bradley Manning court...

Military Court Stays Out Of Debate Over Manning Documents

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 04.18.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON -- The U.S. military's highest court says it isn't the right place for a dispute over public access to documents in the court-martial of Pf...

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Meet The Woman Beating Back Secrecy In Bradley Manning's Trial

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 04.16.2013 | Politics

NEW YORK -- When ordinary members of the public want to read up on the case of Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private who has pleaded guilty to sendin...

Judge Allows Unexpected Move In Manning Trial

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military judge cleared the way Wednesday for a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden's compound to testify at the trial ...

Manning Pretrial Hearing Focuses On Evidence

Posted 04.11.2013 | Politics

By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FORT MEADE, Md. -- An Army private who sent reams of U.S. secrets to the WikiLeaks website is returning to a military court...

Bradley Manning and Military Overreach

Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.13.2013 | Politics
Geoffrey R. Stone

The military's argument that Bradley Manning violated the aiding the enemy statute is clearly ill-founded.

A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time

Daniel Ellsberg | Posted 05.12.2013 | Politics
Daniel Ellsberg

Today, the Freedom of the Press Foundation has published an audio recording of Bradley Manning's speech to a military court from two weeks ago, in which he gives his reasons and motivations behind leaking over 700,000 government documents to WikiLeaks.

Manning Reveals Why He Leaked Bombshell Docs

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 05.01.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — While it may be a curious legal strategy, an Army private's decision to admit in court that he sent hundreds of thousands of classi...

Manning Pleads Guilty To Some Charges

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 04.30.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history, pleaded guilty Thursday...

Manning Docs Released

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 04.29.2013 | Politics

WASHINGTON — The military has released some court documents in the case of an Army private accused of giving classified material to the anti-sec...

Judge Refuses To Dismiss Manning Charges

AP | BEN NUCKOLS | Posted 04.28.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. — An Army private accused of sending classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy tria...

Manning Making New Contention

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 03.18.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military judge's ruling on Wednesday tightly limited an Army private's ability to argue he had good reasons for allegedly sending...

Punishment Before Trial: More Than 1,000 Days and Counting

Graham Nash | Posted 03.16.2013 | Politics
Graham Nash

In my humble opinion, the judges' ruling, granting Manning a 112-day reduction in any sentence he might receive, is welcome but far short of true justice. If the military broke its own laws and President Obama even declared publicly that Manning had broken the law, then how can anyone say that this could be a "fair" trial?

Prosecutors: Bradley Manning Would Have 'Aided The Enemy' By Leaking To New York Times

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 03.12.2013 | Media

Government prosecutors in the Bradley Manning case have made it clear that they see no difference between leaking to WikiLeaks, as Manning has been ch...

Wednesday Roundup: Bradley Manning Rebuffed, Eyes On Europe, Questions For John Brennan

Matt Sledge | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics
Matt Sledge

Hello Wednesday. Here's what's happening in the world of civil liberties, civil rights and more. Bradley Manning gets four months "credit," but loses...

New Arguments Brought Forth In WikiLeaks Case

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 03.11.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. — Prosecutors are using a Civil War court-martial to advance their case that an Army private charged with sending hundreds of th...

Does Aiding WikiLeaks Equal Aiding Al Qaeda?

Politico | Posted 03.10.2013 | Media

Prosecutors and lawyers for alleged WikiLeaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning were back in court Tuesday, sparring over one of the central questions in hi...

The Shameful Exploitation of Bradley Manning

Robert Scheer | Posted 02.13.2013 | Politics
Robert Scheer

What is protected in the First Amendment is not the right of commercial enterprises to exploit the news for profit, but rather of citizens to become informed. That requires the courage of heroic sources, including Bradley Manning.

Matt Sledge

Closing Arguments In Bradley Manning WikiLeaks Pre-Trial Detention Hearing

HuffingtonPost.com | Matt Sledge | Posted 12.11.2012 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. -- Closing arguments for a hearing over alleged WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning's treatment in pre-trial detention ended Tuesday, wit...

NY Times Criticized For Its Coverage Of Bradley Manning Trial

The Huffington Post | Jack Mirkinson | Posted 02.09.2013 | Media

The New York Times is continuing to receive criticism for its relative lack of coverage of the trial of alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning. T...

Bradley Manning Hearing Continues In WikiLeaks Case

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 02.09.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. — The former head of a Marine Corps brig testified Monday that she was shocked when the base commander asked for advance notice ...

Another Key Witness Takes The Stand In WikiLeaks Trial

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 02.06.2013 | Politics

FORT MEADE, Md. — A former Marine Corp brig commander says she never intended it as punishment when she ordered underwear removed from an Army p...

Manning Trial: Being Transgender Doesn't Mean You're Unstable

Zinnia Jones | Posted 02.05.2013 | Gay Voices
Zinnia Jones

In the absence of any concrete statements from Manning, it's impossible to know for certain how he prefers to be known, but if his use of a female name was indeed one of the reasons why Manning was placed on a highly restrictive status, that's a very troubling justification.