U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
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The U.S. military has filed criminal charges against an Army intelligence analyst who has been accused of sending sensitive files to Wikileaks, including a controversial video showing troops firing on Reuters journalists.
Pfc. Bradley Manning, 22, is charged with sending the video to a person not authorized to receive it and with obtaining "more than 150,000 diplomatic cables" from the State Department.
Adrian Lamo, a hacker who pleaded guilty in 2004 to breaking into The New York Times' computer network, told CNET last month that Manning had contacted him and shared details of his leaks. Lamo also said he tipped off authorities.
For more on this story, read Alleged Wikileaks source charged with leaking classified files on CNET News.
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That video needed to be leaked.
I support our troops fully, but there's no reason why something like this should have happened. Reporters aren't target practice fodder.
nix_hed7th Jul 2010 -
RE: U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
how did it really happen?
opcom7th Jul 2010 -
RE: U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
The Truth needs to be told about the ongoing "COLLATERAL DAMAGE" that they keep using, this young guy did the U.S. a favor by reporting the truth people need to take off their War colored Glasses off to see what is really happening in this War for oil.
johnpall@...7th Jul 2010 -
RE: U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
@johnpall@... The only problem is that PFC Manning made an oath to protect the sensitive information of the US Government. That is a requirement for his position. If he was disturb by what he was seeing, he should have contacted his representative at the US House or Senate, and provide the evidence to support his claims. They have the responsibility to ensure the agencies are following the law, and can take the necessary actions to end these practices. What Manning did was to expose operational procedures to those who could develop methods to counter-act them. This can lead to the unnecessary deaths of his fellow servicemen and women who are in harms way. I do not condone the deliberate killing of non-combatants, although that does occur at times in a war-zone. But there is a proper route to handle these situations, and the one he chose is not it. From what I have read in the press he seemed guided more by arrogance to show what he could get away with.
satellite_boss@...7th Jul 2010 -
RE: U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
How come when you do it to a company it's whistleblowing, when you do it to the government it's espionage?
trust2112@...8th Jul 2010 -
RE: U.S. military files charges against Wikileaks suspect
Time was, it used to be a criminal offense to slap a "top secret" label on something simply to cover up criminal activity (thereby making anyone who enforces the law against "espionage" complicit in the same criminal activity) So... what happened?
BigRonW9th Jul 2010
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