Collateral Murder

Judge Rules On Manning Motion Against Serious Charge

AP | DAVID DISHNEAU | Posted 04.26.2012

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FORT MEADE, Md. -- A military judge refused on Thursday to dismiss the most serious charge against an Army private accused in the biggest leak of gove...

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What the Laws of War Allow

Chase Madar | Posted 04.16.2012

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The real problem with the laws of war, however, is not what they fail to restrain but what they authorize. The primary function of International Humanitarian Law is to legalize remarkable levels of "good" military violence that regularly kill and injure non-combatants.

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When WikiLeaks Came to Fame: Two Years Ago With "Collateral Murder"

Greg Mitchell | Posted 04.04.2012

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Two years ago today, Julian Assange was getting ready to fly out of Iceland with the shocking video he'd been working on for weeks in his bag.

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Manning Returns To Court

AP | By JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 03.16.2012

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FORT MEADE, Md. -- Attorneys for an Army private accused of engineering the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history won't get to take s...

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Manning Attorney Makes Bold Move In WikiLeaks Case

AP | JESSICA GRESKO | Posted 05.15.2012

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FORT MEADE, Md. — An attorney for an Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information asked a military j...

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An Open Letter About Pfc. Bradley Manning

Mary Keck | Posted 04.20.2012

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If the allegations that he leaked information to Wikileaks are true, he fulfilled his oath to protect and serve the citizens of the United States. His actions should be celebrated just as we would the deeds of any courageous service member.

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Under Obama, Better to Commit a War Crime Than Expose One

Medea Benjamin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Committing war crimes is more likely to get a solider a medal than a prison term. Manning would be far better off today if he'd killed those men in Baghdad himself.

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WikiLeaks Is Holding Me Hostage

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before choosing Collateral Murder as the name for his Iraq video, Assange told a colleague, "We want to knock out this 'collateral damage' euphemism, and so when anyone uses it they will think, 'collateral murder.'"

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The F Word: Forgetting Bradley Manning

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today, Julian Assange is out of jail. But let's not forget that without Bradley Manning and many others like him, Assange and WikiLeaks and all our new-found public information would be as in the dark as Manning is right now.

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Wikileaks Video Revisited: What Needs To Happen Now

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Earlier this month, the whistleblower website WikiLeaks released a deeply disturbing video of a U.S. Army Apache helicopter in Baghdad in 2007 repeate...

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WikiLeak Case Echoes Pentagon Papers

Coleen Rowley | Posted 05.25.2011

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It's quite possible that the future of accountable government is teetering on the brink with the arrest of the 22-year-old Army intelligence specialist and the fugitive manhunt for the WikiLeaks founder.

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Wikileaks and War; Secrecy and Context

Barrett Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

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Wikileaks risks narrowing both its audience and its potential pool of informants if it makes a habit of coloring its releases as it did the Department of Defense video released on April 5.

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Afghanistan: Death and the High Cost of Living

Josh Mull | Posted 05.25.2011

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Why are we paying billions to Taliban smugglers and police states and anti-democratic intelligence operations just to build a country for a guy who wants to join the Taliban?

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Reuters Spikes Story On Photographers Killed In Baghdad

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

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Reuters deputy Brussels bureau chief Luke Baker penned a "muscular" story that gave strong consideration to the possibility that the slaying of Reuter...

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WikiLeaks Exposes Video of 2007 'Collateral Murder' In Iraq (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Scroll down for the video Calling it a case of "collateral murder," the WikiLeaks Web site today released harrowing video of a U.S. Army Apache hel...

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