Bradley Manning: 1000 Days and No Trial?

[Cowman]

Well at least conservatives support the Obama Administration!

Because well, everything is at the hands of the Obama Administration. From Fast & Furious to border guard stations to this.

 

[georgephillip]

1,000 days! And he's still alive! What a pity. He should have been executed 950 days ago.

For the crime of reporting war crimes?

No, for the crime of treason.

"According to the United States Constitution, Article III, § 3, 'Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

"No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.'”

One thousand days and no time spent in open court?"
Time served.

treason | LII / Legal Information Institute

 

[Wicked Jester]

For the crime of reporting war crimes?

No, for the crime of treason.

"According to the United States Constitution, Article III, § 3, 'Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

"No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.'”

One thousand days and no time spent in open court?"
Time served.

treason | LII / Legal Information Institute

Giving classified info to be publically published is damn sure akin to adhering to their enemies.

And, take it up with his JAG representatives, as to why they keep seeking delays.

The dirty rat bastard at the very least needs to do hard time for life at Leavenworth, but more deserves to have his heart blown clean out of his back.

 

[georgephillip]

No, for the crime of treason.

"According to the United States Constitution, Article III, § 3, 'Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.

"No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.'”

One thousand days and no time spent in open court?"
Time served.

treason | LII / Legal Information Institute

Giving classified info to be publically published is damn sure akin to adhering to their enemies.

And, take it up with his JAG representatives, as to why they keep seeking delays.

The dirty rat bastard at the very least needs to do hard time for life at Leavenworth, but more deserves to have his heart blown clean out of his back.

Manning revealed a few or the war crimes committed by those who volunteered to serve in an illegal invasion and occupation. He deserves time served, and Dick Cheney deserves to have his (plastic) heart blown out of his ass.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

WELL WELL WELL!

Since he has now admitted in open court, by way of a guilty plea, to SOME of the charges, there is no longer anything to worry about when it comes to Manning's pretrial delay.

He's got no place special to be for a few years, probably.

I DID think that the pretrial delay was getting a bit excessive. But now? It's all moot.

And, FUCK that traitorous piece of shit, by the way.

 

[KissMy]

1,000 days! And he's still alive! What a pity. He should have been executed 950 days ago.

For the crime of reporting war crimes?

They prefer government propaganda to truth.

 

[georgephillip]

1,000 days! And he's still alive! What a pity. He should have been executed 950 days ago.

For the crime of reporting war crimes?

They prefer government propaganda to truth.

Some of them can't imagine their government murders innocent human beings for money and market share.

 

[Politico]

WELL WELL WELL!

Since he has now admitted in open court, by way of a guilty plea, to SOME of the charges, there is no longer anything to worry about when it comes to Manning's pretrial delay.

And no reason to for the Wikitards cheerleaders to keep beating it to death since the guy who did it admitted he was wrong.

 

[georgephillip]

WELL WELL WELL!

Since he has now admitted in open court, by way of a guilty plea, to SOME of the charges, there is no longer anything to worry about when it comes to Manning's pretrial delay.

And no reason to for the Wikitards cheerleaders to keep beating it to death since the guy who did it admitted he was wrong.

After being tortured in the finest traditions of the US Armed Forces:

 

[Big Black Dog]

He should have been hung long ago...

 

[Polk]

The better question is "Why would a PFC be given access to that kind of information in the first place?"

Access to information that could harm the US should only be granted to officers and senior NCOs.

That's an excellent question that this three ring circus is probably ensuring we'll never fully address.

 

[georgephillip]

He should have been hung long ago...

"In December, 2011, I wrote an Op-Ed in the Guardian arguing that if Bradley Manning did what he is accused of doing, then he is a consummate hero, and deserves a medal and our collective gratitude, not decades in prison.

"At his court-martial proceeding this afternoon in Fort Meade, Manning, as the Guaridan's Ed Pilkington reports, pleaded guilty to having been the source of the most significant leaks to WikiLeaks.

"He also pleaded not guilty to 12 of the 22 counts, including the most serious - the capital offense of 'aiding and abetting the enemy', which could send him to prison for life - on the ground that nothing he did was intended to nor did it result in harm to US national security. The US government will now almost certainly proceed with its attempt to prosecute him on those remaining counts."

Bradley Manning: the face of heroism | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Hang Dick and Dubya first.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

He should have been hung long ago...

"In December, 2011, I wrote an Op-Ed in the Guardian arguing that if Bradley Manning did what he is accused of doing, then he is a consummate hero, and deserves a medal and our collective gratitude, not decades in prison.

"At his court-martial proceeding this afternoon in Fort Meade, Manning, as the Guaridan's Ed Pilkington reports, pleaded guilty to having been the source of the most significant leaks to WikiLeaks.

"He also pleaded not guilty to 12 of the 22 counts, including the most serious - the capital offense of 'aiding and abetting the enemy', which could send him to prison for life - on the ground that nothing he did was intended to nor did it result in harm to US national security. The US government will now almost certainly proceed with its attempt to prosecute him on those remaining counts."

Bradley Manning: the face of heroism | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

Hang Dick and Dubya first.

Pure bullshit. He is not a hero for violating the law like that.

He took his own personal views, assumed they trumped the law and the intelligence framework of classification that was not his to decide, and made a unilateral decision about the material he leaked.

I'm glad he admitted his guilt, because guilty he is. And there's nothing heroic about his arrogant assumption of authority nor in his actions.

Fuck him.

I do hope he gets life. Break that big rock into little rocks and repeat, every day, for the rest of your maggoty life, Manning.

 

[georgephillip]

"Manning explained that he was leaking because he wanted the world to know what he had learned: 'I want people to see the truth … regardless of who they are … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.'

"When asked by the informant why he did not sell the documents to a foreign government for profit - something he obviously could have done with ease - Manning replied that he wanted the information to be publicly known in order to trigger 'worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms'.

Why don't you tell us how those paying for war crimes are supposed to make informed decisions about what's being done in their names without information?

Bradley Manning: the face of heroism | Glenn Greenwald | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk

 

[longknife]

Am I wrong or hasn't he plead guilty the other day?

 

[PaulS1950]

His plee was a split plee - guilty to twelve counts and not guilty to the rest.

 

[whitehall]

They don't seem to be in too much of a hurry to bring the jihad Army major to trial either. He killed 13 of his own men and wounded 32 others July of 2009. It didn't take the Military long to deal with that poor combat Marine who was accused of pissing on enemy corpses though.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

This thread does bring some good news with it.

The chances that Manning will ever see the light of day again as a free man have dropped significantly.

VERY good news.

 

[pinqy]

"Manning explained that he was leaking because he wanted the world to know what he had learned: 'I want people to see the truth … regardless of who they are … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.'

That all may be true, but he broke the law to do it. If he were practicing civil disobedience, then part of that is serving the jail time as the price.

Not that abuses, such as My Lai and Abu Gharib and others were exposed without breaking any laws or making classified information available to the enemy.

 

[georgephillip]

"Manning explained that he was leaking because he wanted the world to know what he had learned: 'I want people to see the truth … regardless of who they are … because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.'

That all may be true, but he broke the law to do it. If he were practicing civil disobedience, then part of that is serving the jail time as the price.

Not that abuses, such as My Lai and Abu Gharib and others were exposed without breaking any laws or making classified information available to the enemy.

Serving a sentence for civil disobedience that's been handed down in a courtroom is certainly to be expected. Manning has yet to receive a sentence, and it appears that the "security and surveillance" state is more interested in making his case an example of what all future whistle-blowers can expect.

"This trial is not simply the prosecution of a 25-year-old soldier who had the temerity to report to the outside world the indiscriminate slaughter, war crimes, torture and abuse that are carried out by our government and our occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"It is a concerted effort by the security and surveillance state to extinguish what is left of a free press, one that has the constitutional right to expose crimes by those in power.

"The lonely individuals who take personal risks so that the public can know the truth—the Daniel Ellsbergs, the Ron Ridenhours, the Deep Throats and the Bradley Mannings—are from now on to be charged with 'aiding the enemy.'

"All those within the system who publicly reveal facts that challenge the official narrative will be imprisoned, as was John Kiriakou, the former CIA analyst who for exposing the U.S. government’s use of torture began serving a 30-month prison term the day Manning read his statement.

"There is a word for states that create these kinds of information vacuums: totalitarian."

Chris Hedges: We Are Bradley Manning - Chris Hedges' Columns - Truthdig