http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/30/manning-faces-up-to-136-years-in-prison-for-alerting-you-to-what-your-government-does-in-your-name/
Manning Faces Up to 136 Years in Prison for Alerting You to What Your Government Does in Your Name<http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/30/manning-faces-up-to-136-years-in-prison-for-alerting-you-to-what-your-government-does-in-your-name/> By: emptywheel <http://www.emptywheel.net/author/emptywheel/> Tuesday July 30, 2013 1:30 pm *Bradley Manning is innocent, according to Judge Colonel Denise Lind, of aiding the enemy.* *With this verdict, truly horrible consequences for freedom of speech are averted.* *Nevertheless, according to the invaluable Alexa OBrien<https://twitter.com/carwinb/status/362261885736845312>, Manning still faces a maximum 136 years for the 19 (out of 21) charges on which he was found guilty.* *When Manning plead guilty<http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/bradley-mannings-statement-taking-responsibility-for-releasing-documents-to-wikileaks>in February to 10 lesser charges (Lind accepted 4 of those pleas), he said he hoped his leaks could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan. For that, the government accused him of being a traitor.* *Lind agreed with the government on almost every other issue but that one. And for his efforts, Manning may well spend the rest of his life in prison.* *Update: Heres my longer take at Salon<http://www.salon.com/2013/07/30/manning_verdict_what_you_need_to_know/>. Note this bit:* *There is one more significant detail in Linds ruling today. In addition to aiding the enemy, the one other charge she found Manning innocent of involved leaking a video of a civilian massacre in Garani, Afghanstan. While Manning admitted accessing the video, the government insisted he had leaked it months before Manning admitted to accessing the video (and before forensic evidence showed he had). This claim one Lind said they did not prove was key to their claims that Manning had planned to leak to WikiLeaks from the start of his deployment to Iraq.* [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- LAAMN: Los Angeles Alternative Media Network --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe: <mailto:laamn-unsubscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subscribe: <mailto:laamn-subscr...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Digest: <mailto:laamn-dig...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Help: <mailto:laamn-ow...@egroups.com?subject=laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Post: <mailto:la...@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive1: <http://www.egroups.com/messages/laamn> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Archive2: <http://www.mail-archive.com/laamn@egroups.com> --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/laamn/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: laamn-dig...@yahoogroups.com laamn-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: laamn-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
