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United States v. Manning
Official photograph of Manning from the United States Army
Court	United States Army Military District of Washington
Full case name	United States of America v. Manning, Bradley E., PFC
Case history
Prior actions	Article 32 hearing, opened December 16, 2011 Formally charged, February 23, 2012 Article 39 (pre-trial) hearing, opened April 24, 2012
Court membership
Judge sitting	Colonel Denise Lind

United States v. Manning was the court-martial of former United States Army Private First Class Chelsea Manning (known at the time of the trial as Bradley Manning).

Manning was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq, where she had been stationed since October 2009, after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker in the United States, provided information to Army Counterintelligence that Manning had acknowledged passing classified material to the whistleblower website, WikiLeaks. Manning was ultimately charged with 22 specified offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source, and the most serious of the charges, aiding the enemy. Other charges included violations of the Espionage Act, stealing U.S. government property, charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act and charges related to the failure to obey lawful general orders under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. She entered guilty pleas to 10 of 22 specified offenses in February 2013.

The trial began on June 3, 2013. It went to the judge on July 26, 2013, and findings were rendered on July 30. Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge, that of aiding the enemy, for giving secrets to WikiLeaks. In addition to five or six espionage counts, she was also found guilty of five theft specifications, two computer fraud specifications and multiple military infractions. Manning had previously admitted guilt on some of the specified charges before the trial.

On August 21, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years' imprisonment, reduction in rank from Private First Class to Private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge. She may be eligible for parole after serving one third of the sentence, and together with credits for time served and good behavior could be released after eight years.

Background

The material in question includes 251,287 United States diplomatic cables, over 400,000 classified army reports from the Iraq War (the Iraq War logs), and approximately 90,000 army reports from the war in Afghanistan (the Afghan War logs). WikiLeaks also received two videos. One was of the July 12, 2007 Baghdad airstrike (dubbed the "Collateral Murder" video); the second, which was never published, was of the May 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan.

Manning was charged on July 5, 2010, with violations of Articles 92 and 134 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice, which were alleged to have taken place between November 19, 2009, and May 27, 2010. These were replaced on March 1, 2011, with 22 specifications, including aiding the enemy, wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet knowing that it was accessible to the enemy, theft of public property or records, and transmitting defense information. Manning was found not guilty for the most serious of the charges, aiding the enemy, for which Manning could have faced life in prison.

Pre-trial hearings

Article 32 hearing

A panel of experts ruled in April 2011 that Manning was fit to stand trial. An Article 32 hearing, presided over by Lieutenant Colonel Paul Almanza, was convened on December 16, 2011, at Fort Meade, Maryland, to determine whether to proceed to a court martial. The army was represented by Captains Ashden Fein, Joe Morrow, and Angel Overgaard. Manning was represented by military attorneys Major Matthew Kemkes and Captain Paul Bouchard, and by civilian attorney David Coombs.

The hearing resulted in Almanza recommending that Manning be referred to a general court-martial, and on February 3, 2012, the convening authority, Major General Michael Linnington, commander of the Military District of Washington, ordered Manning to stand trial on all 22 specified charges, including aiding the enemy. Manning was formally charged (arraigned) on February 23, and declined to enter a plea.

Prosecution evidence

The lead prosecutor, Captain Fein, argued that Manning had given enemies "unfettered access" to the material and had displayed an "absolute indifference" to classified information. He showed the court a video of Adam Gadahn, an al-Qaeda spokesman, referencing the leaked material.

The prosecution presented 300,000 pages of documents in evidence, including chat logs and classified material. Nicks writes that Manning appeared to have taken few security precautions. After Manning's arrest, detectives searched a basement room in Potomac, Maryland, and found an SD card they say contained the Afghan and Iraq War logs, along with a message to WikiLeaks. Investigators said Manning had also left computer trails of Google and Intelink searches, and of using Wget to download documents.

Lieutenant Colonel Almanza heard from two army investigators, Special Agent David Shaver, head of the digital forensics and research branch of the army's Computer Crime Investigative Unit (CCIU), and Mark Johnson, a digital forensics contractor from ManTech International, who works for the CCIU. They testified that they had found 100,000 State Department cables on a computer Manning had used between November 2009 and May 2010; 400,000 U.S. military reports from Iraq and 91,000 from Afghanistan on the SD card; and 10,000 cables on a personal MacBook Pro and storage devices that they said had not been passed to WikiLeaks because a file was corrupted. They also said they had recovered an exchange from May 2010 between Manning and Eric Schmiedl, a Boston mathematician, in which Manning said she was the source of the Baghdad helicopter attack ("Collateral Murder") video.

Johnson said he found a text file called wl-press.txt on an external hard drive in Manning's room in Iraq. The file was created on November 30, 2009, and gave the contact detail in Iceland for WikiLeaks. He said he also recovered 14–15 pages of encrypted chats, in unallocated space on Manning's MacBook's hard drive, between Manning and someone believed to be Julian Assange, using the Adium instant messaging client. The MacBook's log-in password was found to be the encryption key. Two of the chat handles, which used the Berlin Chaos Computer Club's domain (ccc.de), had names associated with them, Julian Assange and Nathaniel Frank. Johnson also said he found SSH logs on the MacBook that showed an SFTP connection, from an IP address that resolved to Manning's aunt's home, to a Swedish IP address with links to WikiLeaks. There was also a text file named "Readme" attached to the logs, apparently written by Manning:

Items of historical significance of two wars Iraq and Afghanistan Significant Activity, Sigacts, between 00001 January 2004 and 2359 31 December 2009 extracts from CSV documents from Department of Defense and CDNE database. These items have already been sanitized of any source identifying information.

You might need to sit on this information for 90 to 180 days to figure out how best to send and distribute such a large amount of data to a large audience and protect the source.

This is possibly one of the most significant documents of our time, removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st century assymmetric warfare.

Have a good day.

Johnson said there had been two attempts to delete material from the MacBook. The operating system was re-installed in January 2010, and on or around January 31 an attempt was made to erase the hard drive by doing a "zero-fill," which involves overwriting material with zeroes. This process was started, cancelled, then started again with a single pass. The material was recovered after the overwrite attempts from unallocated space.

Defense arguments

The defense named 48 people it wanted to appear on Manning's behalf. The list was believed to include President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Clinton had said that the diplomatic cables published by WikiLeaks "did not represent significant consequences to foreign policy." Obama was named because of an April 2011 statement that Manning "broke the law":

The defense requests the presence of in order to discuss the issue of Unlawful Command Influence (UCI). Under Rule for Courts-Martial 405(e), the defense is entitled to explore the issue of UCI. Under the Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), a superior officer in the chain of command is prohibited from saying or doing anything that could influence any decision by a subordinate in how to handle a military justice matter.

Obama's statement was later echoed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin Dempsey, who said "We're a nation of laws. He did violate the law."

Manning's lawyers argued that the government had overstated the harm the release of the documents had caused, and had overcharged Manning in order to obtain evidence against Assange. They suggested that other people had had access to Manning's workplace computer, and under cross-examination Shaver acknowledged that some of the 10,000 cables on Manning's personal computer did not match cables published by WikiLeaks. Coombs asked for the dismissal of any charge related to the use of unauthorized software, arguing that Manning's unit had been "lawless ... when it comes to information assurance."

The defense also raised the issue of whether Manning's gender identity disorder had affected her judgment. Manning had e-mailed her master sergeant, Paul Adkins, in April 2010 to say she was suffering from gender confusion and, despite then living as a man, attaching a photograph of herself dressed as a woman. After Manning's arrest, the army found information about hormone replacement therapy in her room, and Manning's commander, Captain Steven Lim, learned that she had been calling herself Breanna. Defense lawyers argued that the superiors had failed to provide adequate counseling, and had not taken disciplinary action or revoke Manning's security clearance. They also suggested that the "don't ask, don't tell" policy—which was repealed in September 2011—had made it difficult for Manning to serve in the army as a gay man.

Defense request to depose six witnesses

After the hearing, in January 2012, Coombs filed a request to depose six witnesses, whose names were redacted in the application, and who are believed to have been involved in classifying the leaked videos. Coombs argues that the videos were not classified at the time they were obtained by WikiLeaks.

Article 39 hearing

An Article 39 hearing was convened on April 24, 2012, during which the judge, Colonel Denise Lind, denied a defense motion to dismiss the charge of aiding the enemy, and ruled that the government must be able to show that Manning knew the enemy would be able to access information on the WikiLeaks site. She ordered the CIA, FBI, DIA, State Department, and Department of Justice to release documents showing their assessment of whether the leaked material had damaged the national interest of the United States. Lind said she would decide after reading the documents whether to make them available to Manning's lawyers. She also ordered forensic imaging of five computers removed from Manning's work station that had not yet been wiped clean.

At the start of the hearing, Manning replaced the assigned two military defense lawyers, Major Matthew Kemkes and Captain Paul Bouchard, with Captain Joshua Tooman. The next Article 39 hearing was set for June 6–8 and trial was set for September 2012.

Petition to the Army Court of Criminal Appeals

The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a petition in May 2012 asking the Army Court of Criminal Appeals to order press and public access to motion papers, orders, and transcripts. Petitioners included Julian Assange, Amy Goodman of Democracy Now!, Chase Madar, author of The Passion of Bradley Manning (2011), and Glenn Greenwald of Salon.

Motion to dismiss

On September 19, 2012, Manning's attorneys filed a motion to dismiss all charges with prejudice, arguing that Manning had been unable to obtain a speedy trial. The motion claimed that the 845 days spent in pretrial confinement was longer than the periods that the law says is unreasonable. (United States military law normally requires a trial within 120 days.) Judge Lind ruled against the defense motion and allowed for the delay because the prosecution needed more time to prepare its case.

Initial plea

On February 28, 2013, Manning pleaded guilty to 10 of the 22 specified charges. Military judge Colonel Denise Lind accepted the guilty pleas, for which Manning could face up to 20 years in prison. Manning did not plead guilty to the most significant charge of aiding the enemy.

Manning acknowledged having provided archives of military and diplomatic files to WikiLeaks. She pleaded guilty to 10 criminal counts in connection with the material leaked, which included videos of airstrikes in Iraq and Afghanistan in which civilians were killed, logs of military incident reports, assessment files of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and a quarter-million cables from American diplomats stationed around the world. Manning read a statement recounting how she joined the military, became an intelligence analyst in Iraq, decided that certain files should become known to the American public to prompt a wider debate about foreign policy, downloaded them from a secure computer network and then ultimately uploaded them to WikiLeaks.

When the judge asked Manning to explain how she could admit that her actions were wrong, Manning replied, "Your Honor, regardless of my opinion or my assessment of documents such as these, it's beyond my pay grade—it's not my authority to make these decisions about releasing confidential files." An audio recording of Manning's statement was released by journalist Glenn Greenwald on March 12, 2013.

Manning put the files on a camera digital storage card and took it home on a leave in early 2010. Manning then decided to give the files to a newspaper, first calling The Washington Post. Next, The New York Times was contacted and an unanswered voice mail message was left. In January 2010, Manning called the public editor's line at Bloomberg News, but got no response. Manning then copied the files and uploaded them to WikiLeaks, through its website, using a directory the group designated as a "cloud drop box" server. Manning was frustrated that WikiLeaks did not publish files about 15 people who printed "anti-Iraqi" pamphlets. After uploading the files, Manning was engaged in more online conversations with someone from WikiLeaks, who Manning thought was a senior figure, like Julian Assange. In retrospect, Manning described the relationship as "artificial."

Trial

The trial began on June 3, 2013, at Fort Meade, Maryland, before Colonel Denise Lind, chief judge, U.S. Army Trial Judiciary, 1st Judicial Circuit.

Opening for the prosecution, Captain Joe Morrow accused Manning of having "harvested" hundreds of thousands of documents from secure networks, then making them available within hours to the US's enemies by dumping them on the Internet: "This is a case about what happens when arrogance meets access to classified information," he said. For the defense, Coombs described Manning as "young, naïve and good intentioned." Coombs recounted an incident in which a convoy was hit by an IED, which U.S. troops were relieved did not result in any American fatalities. Manning was reportedly disturbed by her comrades' lack of sympathy upon later learning that an Iraqi civilian had been killed in the incident. Coombs said that by releasing material she felt the public should see, Manning had hoped to make a difference. Manning additionally believed that much of the information she released was "already basically in the public domain," and that it was of historical importance.

On July 2, at the trial's 14th day of sessions, prosecutors rested their case, having presented testimony from 80 witnesses and evidence showing that Manning's training repeatedly instructed her to not give classified information to unauthorized people. The government also presented evidence that Osama bin Laden asked for and received from an associate the Afghanistan battlefield reports WikiLeaks published, and that al-Qaeda leaders reveled in WikiLeaks' publication of reams of classified U.S. documents, urging members to study them before devising ways to attack the United States.

On July 10, the defense rested its case after presenting evidence from 10 witnesses. Manning did not take the stand. Attempting to undercut the most serious charge against Manning—aiding the enemy—defense lawyers called Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler, who testified that until WikiLeaks started publishing the material Manning leaked, even The Pentagon apparently viewed the anti-secrecy website as a legitimate journalistic enterprise. Thereafter, said Benkler, the public, the military and traditional news media perceived WikiLeaks as a group that supported terrorism.

On July 18, Judge Lind rejected a defense motion to dismiss the charge of aiding the enemy, citing Manning's extensive training as an intelligence analyst and the sheer volume of records that were leaked as reasons to allow the charge to proceed. In its rebuttal case, the prosecution entered three tweets from WikiLeaks that Manning may have viewed to show that the organization was not a legitimate journalistic enterprise. In surrebuttal, the defense entered articles into evidence depicting WikiLeaks as an important journalism outlet, a platform "just as important as" the Freedom of Information Act (United States).

On July 25, chief prosecutor Maj. Ashden Fein delivered the government's closing argument, portraying Manning as an "anarchist" who sought to "make a splash" by providing vast archives of secret documents to WikiLeaks. Arguing that Manning must be found guilty of aiding the enemy, Fein said, "He was not a whistleblower. He was a traitor, a traitor who understood the value of compromised information in the hands of the enemy and took deliberate steps to ensure that they, along with the world, received it." Fein contended that Manning's "wholesale and indiscriminate compromise of hundreds of thousands of classified documents" for release by the WikiLeaks staff, whom he called "essentially information anarchists," was not an ordinary journalistic disclosure but a bid for "notoriety, although in a clandestine form." Fein addressed the court for nearly six hours.

The next day, defense attorney Coombs countered with his own closing argument, portraying Manning as "a young, naïve, but good-intentioned soldier who had human life and his humanist beliefs center to his decisions, whose sole focus was, 'Maybe I just can make a difference, maybe make a change.'" Coombs said his client released only files she believed would cause no harm yet spark debate and prompt change, and that if Manning had not been selective, she would have leaked much more. Playing excerpts from the Baghdad helicopter attack ("Collateral Murder") video that Manning admitted supplying to WikiLeaks, Coombs told Judge Lind: "When the court looks at this, the defense requests that you not disengage, that you not look at this from the eyes of 'this happened on a battlefield.' Did they all deserve to die? That is what Private Manning is thinking as he is watching this video he is seeing, and he's questioning."

With closing arguments concluded, Col. Lind began her deliberations. Manning chose to have her court-martial heard by the judge only instead of a jury.

Findings

On July 30, 2013, Judge Lind issued her findings regarding the charges. Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy by knowingly giving out intelligence through indirect means, and was convicted of 19 of the 21 or 22 specified charges, including theft and six counts of espionage. The hearing on sentencing began on July 31, 2013. Manning initially faced a maximum sentence of as much as 136 years' imprisonment. This was subsequently reduced to 90 years after the defense successfully filed a motion to merge some of the 20 counts that Manning was being charged with on the grounds that they overlapped.

Sentencing

The judge ruled in January 2013 that Manning's sentence would be reduced by 112 days because of treatment during confinement at Quantico. The sentencing phase of the trial began on July 31. A military psychologist who had treated Manning, Capt. Michael Worsley, testified that Manning had been left isolated in the army, trying to deal with gender-identity issues in a "hyper-masculine environment." On August 14 during the sentencing hearing, Manning apologized for past actions, telling the court: "I am sorry that my actions hurt people. I'm sorry that they hurt the United States. I am sorry for the unintended consequences of my actions. When I made these decisions I believed I was going to help people, not hurt people. ... At the time of my decisions I was dealing with a lot of issues." On August 21, 2013, Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Manning was given credit of 1,293 days (3 years and 6 months) served in pre-trial confinement, and may be eligible for parole after serving one-third of the sentence. Manning was also sentenced to reduction in rank from Private First Class to Private, forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and a dishonorable discharge.

Request for presidential pardon

On September 3, 2013, Manning's attorney announced that he had filed on his client's behalf a Petition for Commutation of Sentence, submitted with a letter to the Secretary of the Army and, through the Department of Justice's Office of the Pardon Attorney, to President Obama, seeking a presidential pardon.

In the meantime, Manning's case will be reviewed by the court-martial convening authority, Maj. Gen. Jeffrey S. Buchanan, commander of the Military District of Washington, who has discretion to dismiss the court's findings of guilt or reduce, but not increase its sentence. Should Buchanan uphold confinement for at least a year and/or dishonorable discharge, the case will be automatically appealed to the intermediate Army Court of Criminal Appeals.

See also

Material alleged to have been leaked

• Afghan War logs
• Iraq War logs
• Guantanamo Bay files leak
• United States diplomatic cables leak
• "Collateral Murder" video
• Granai airstrike video

Miscellaneous

• Courts-martial in the United States
• Information published by WikiLeaks
• United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Notes

1. ^ Jennifer Rizzo, "Bradley Manning charged", CNN, February 23, 2012.
2. Patrick Semansky, "Bradley Manning wants to live as a woman: 'I am Chelsea Manning'", Toronto Star, August 22, 2013.
3. Dishneau, David. "Ex-agent says he alerted DoD in WikiLeaks case", Associated Press, 4 August 2010.
4. Denver Nicks, "Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks", This Land, September 23, 2010.
5. "Bradley Manning enters guilty pleas in WikiLeaks case", CBS News, February 28, 2013.
6. ^ Julie Tate and Ellen Nakashima, "Bradley Manning court-martial opens", The Washington Post, June 3, 2013.
7. "Closing arguments conclude; Manning's fate now with judge". CNN. Retrieved July 26, 2013.
8. "Verdict in Manning trial to be read Tuesday". CNN. Retrieved July 29, 2013.
9. Matt Sledge (July 30, 2013). "Bradley Manning Found Guilty of 19 Counts, Not Guilty of Aiding The Enemy". huffingtonpost.com. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
10. ^ Dashiell Bennett (July 30, 2013). "Bradley Manning Found Not Guilty of Aiding the Enemy". theatlanticwire.com.
11. ^ Zachary Stieber (July 30, 2013). "Bradley Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy, Found Guilty of Violating Espionage Act". Epoch Times.
12. ^ "Army Pfc. Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy, convicted of six counts of espionage". NY Daily News. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
13. ^ "Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy". New York Times. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
14. ^ "Bradley Manning acquitted of aiding the enemy for giving secrets to WikiLeaks". CBS News. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
15. "BBC News – Bradley Manning guilty of espionage in Wikileaks case". bbc.co.uk. July 30, 2013.
16. Dishneau, David. "Manning Gets 35 years for wikileaks disclosures". MSN.com. Associated Press. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
17. Sledge, Matt. "Bradley Manning Sentenced To 35 Years In Prison For WikiLeaks Disclosures ", Huffington Post, 21 August 2013.
18. "Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison – live updates". The Guardian. August 21, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
19. "Judge sentences Bradley Manning to 35 years". Washington Post. August 21, 2013. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
20. Kim Zetter, "Bradley Manning to Face All Charges in Court-Martial", Wired, February 3, 2012.
21. "Attorney for WikiLeaks suspect says he's seen no evidence on documents", CNN, August 31, 2010.
    • "Charge sheet", courtesy of Cryptome, accessed May 4, 2012.
    • "Charge sheet", The Washington Post, accessed April 7, 2012.
22. "WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning faces 22 new charges", CBS News, March 2, 2011.
    • For figures from ABC, see Luis Martinez, "22 New Charges Against Pvt. Bradley Manning, Accused WikiLeaks Source", ABC News, March 2, 2011.
    • Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube, "Manning faces new charges, possible death penalty", msnbc.com, March 2, 2011.
23. "Panel Says WikiLeaks Suspect Is Competent to Stand Trial", Associated Press, April 29, 2011.
24. Regarding fitness to stand trial, see "Panel Says WikiLeaks Suspect Is Competent to Stand Trial", Associated Press, April 29, 2011.
    • For the lawyers' names, see "PFC Manning, Article 32 Script", courtesy of politico.com, accessed May 9, 2012.
    • For WikiLeaks summaries of the hearings, see:

    • "2011-12-16 Handwritten Transcript of Bradley #Manning's Pretrial Hearing Day 1 #WikiLeaks", WikiLeaks, December 16, 2011.
    • "2011-12-17 Handwritten transcript of Bradley #Manning Pretrial Day 2 #WikiLeaks", WikiLeaks, December 17, 2011.
    • "2011-12-18 Handwritten transcript of Bradley #Manning Pretrial Day 3 #WikiLeaks", WikiLeaks, December 18, 2011.
    • "2011-12-19 Summary of PFC Bradley Manning's Pre-Trial Hearing, Dec 16–18", WikiLeaks, December 19, 2011.
    • "2011-12-20 Summary: PFC Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing Day 4", WikiLeaks, December 20, 2011.
    • "2011-12-21 Summary: PFC Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing Day 5", WikiLeaks, December 21, 2011.
    • "2011-12-22 Summary: PFC Bradley Manning Pre-Trial Hearing Day 6", WikiLeaks, December 22, 2011.

    • For the order that she stand trial, see Kim Zetter, "Bradley Manning to Face All Charges in Court-Martial", Wired, February 3, 2012.
    • For the formal charging (arraignment), see Jennifer Rizzo, "Bradley Manning charged", CNN, February 23, 2012.
25. Denver Nicks, Private: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks, and the Biggest Exposure of Official Secrets in American History, Chicago Review Press, 2012, p. 3.
26. Nicks 2012, p. 223.
27. ^ The army investigators' testimony Zetter, December 19, 2011
28. Nicks 2012, pp. 137–138; also see Zetter, December 19, 2011.
29. Ed Pilkington. "Bradley Manning team to highlight WikiLeaks suspect's fragile mental state | World news". theguardian.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
30. "Did Obama taint Manning's right to fair trial? – US news – Security". NBC News. April 26, 2011. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
31. "Video Of Obama On Bradley Manning: "He Broke The Law"". Forbes. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
32. Stephanie Condon (April 22, 2011). "Obama says Bradley Manning "broke the law" – Political Hotsheet". CBS News. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
33. Greenwald, Glenn (April 23, 2011). "President Obama speaks on Manning and the rule of law". Salon.com. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
34. "Barack Obama on Bradley Manning: 'He broke the law' – MJ Lee and Abby Phillip". Politico.Com. Retrieved August 2, 2013.
35. "Defense Article 32 Witness List.pdf – Google Drive". Docs.google.com. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
36. Cole, William. "Dempsey: US 'preparing military options' if needed for Syria – Pacific". Stripes. Retrieved August 23, 2013.
37. For the prosecution argument about Manning's "absolute indifference," and for the defense argument about Manning's unit being "lawless," see Serena Marshall, "Court Martial for Bradley Manning in Wikileaks Case?", ABC News, December 22, 2011.
    • For the government overcharging Manning, see Kim Zetter, "Army Piles on Evidence in Final Arguments in WikiLeaks Hearing", Wired, December 22, 2011.
    • For the gender issues, see Kirit Radia and Luis Martinez, "Bradley Manning Defense Reveals Alter Ego Named 'Breanna Manning'", ABC News, December 17, 2011.
    • For Manning facing court martial, see Denver Nicks, "Bradley Manning Likely Faces Court Martial", The Daily Beast, January 13, 2012.
38. David Coombs, "Request for oral depositions", United States v. PFC Bradley Manning, January 12, 2012.
    • Kim Zetter, "Bradley Manning Attorney Wants to Depose Rejected Witnesses", Wired, January 12, 2012.
39. § 839
40. ^ "Bradley Manning Judge to Rule on Request to Drop Charges", ABC News, April 24, 2012.
    • "Bradley Manning Defense Challenges Charge of 'Aiding the Enemy'", ABC News, April 25, 2012.
    • "No Luck for Bradley Manning: More Motions Denied in WikiLeaks Case", ABC News, April 26, 2012.
41. David Dishneau, "GI Seeks Dismissal of 10 Counts in WikiLeaks Case", Associated Press, May 24, 2012.
    • "Constitutional Rights Attorneys, Media Challenge Secrecy Of Manning Court Martial", Eurasia Review, May 24, 2012.
42. Motion to Dismiss of September 19, 2012 as cited in Nathan Fuller (September 29, 2012) "The government has made an 'absolute mockery' of Bradley Manning's right to a speedy trial" BradleyManning.org
43. Adam Klasfeld, "Landmark Delays in Manning Court-Martial, Lawyer Says" Courthouse News Service, October 1, 2012.
44. Adam Klasfeld, "Judges Doubt Need for Secrecy in Bradley Manning Court-Martial" Courthouse News Service, October 10, 2012.
45. Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade, Maryland. "Bradley Manning judge rules length of soldier's detention 'reasonable' | World news". theguardian.com. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
46. "Bradley Manning pleads guilty to some Wikileaks charges", BBC News, February 28, 2013.
47. ^ Charlie Savage and Scott Shane (March 1, 2013). "Soldier Admits Providing Files To WikiLeaks". The New York Times. p. A1.
48. Glenn Greenwald, "Finally: hear Bradley Manning in his own voice", The Guardian, March 12, 2013.
49. Judge Advocate General Corps website, last updated September 24, 2012, retrieved July 23, 2013.
50. Paul McGeough, "WikiLeaks trial begins on a low-note", Sydney Morning Herald, June 4, 2013.
51. David Dishneau & Pauline Jelinek, "Prosecution rests in Manning's WikiLeaks trial", Associated Press, July 2, 2013.
52. Associated Press (July 2, 2013). "Prosecution submits al-Qaida excerpts in Wikileaks trial". The Burlington Free Press. Burlington, Vermont. pp. 5A. Retrieved July 2, 2013.
53. Associated Press, "Bradley Manning's defense rests its case in WikiLeaks scandal", Los Angeles Times, July 10, 2013.
54. Julie Tate, "Judge in Bradley Manning trial rejects motion to dismiss key charge", The Washington Post, July 18, 2013.
55. Charlie Savage, "In Closing Argument, Prosecutor Casts Soldier as 'Anarchist' for Leaking Archives", The New York Times, July 25, 2013.
56. Charlie Savage, "Defense Calls Manning's Intentions Good", The New York Times, July 26, 2013.
57. David Dishneau, "Bradley Manning Trial Begins 3 Years After Arrest", Associated Press, June 3, 2013.
58. "Wikileaker PFC. Bradly Manning Found not Guilty of Most Serious Charge of Aiding the Enemy". The Blaze. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
59. "Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy, faces 130+ yrs in jail on other charges". Russia Today. July 30, 2013. found guilty of 20 remaining charges, meaning that he still faces the possibility of up to 136 years behind bars.
60. "Twitter / Edpilkington: #manning not guilty if aiding". Twitter.com. Retrieved July 30, 2013.
61. Pilkington, Ed (August 6, 2013). "Bradley Manning's maximum sentence reduced to a possible 90 years". The Guardian.
62. Tate, Julie and Nakashima, Ellen. "Judge refuses to dismiss charges against WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning", The Washington Post, January 8, 2013.
63. Tate, Julie and Londono, Ernesto. "Bradley Manning found not guilty of aiding the enemy, convicted on other charges", The Washington Post, July 30, 2013.
    • Londono, Ernesto; Rolfe, Rebecca; and Tate, Julie. "Verdict in Bradley Manning case", The Washington Post, July 30, 2013.
    • Savage, Charlie. "Manning Acquitted of Aiding the Enemy", The New York Times, July 30, 2013.
    • Pilkington, Ed. "Bradley Manning verdict: cleared of 'aiding the enemy' but guilty of other charges", The Guardian, July 31, 2013: "the soldier was found guilty in their entirety of 17 out of the 22 counts against him, and of an amended version of four others."
64. Kube, Courtney; DeLuca, Matthew; McClam, Erin. "'I'm sorry that I hurt the United States': Bradley Manning apologizes in court", NBC News, August 14, 2013.
    • Courson, Paul. "Bradley Manning apologizes, tells court he must pay price", CNN, August 14, 2013.
65. "Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison". CNN. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
66. "Bradley Manning gets 35 years in prison for giving US secrets to WikiLeaks". WFTV TV. Retrieved August 21, 2013.
67. Simpson, Ian. "Manning seeks presidential pardon in WikiLeaks case", Reuters, September 4, 2013.
68. O'Brien, Alexa. "Bradley Manning: 'I Will Recover From This … This Is Just a Stage in My Life'", The Daily Beast, August 21, 2013.

Further reading

Articles

• Carbone, Christopher. "Have gay rights groups abandoned Bradley Manning?" The Guardian. Tuesday July 30, 2013.
• Gabbatt, Adam. "Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy – live updates." The Guardian. Tuesday July 30, 2013.
• Greenwald, Glenn. "The strange and consequential case of Bradley Manning, Adrian Lamo and WikiLeaks", Salon, June 18, 2010.
• Hansen, Evan. "Manning-Lamo Chat Logs Revealed", Wired magazine, July 13, 2011; archived from the original on March 28, 2012.
• Nakashima, Ellen. "Messages from alleged leaker Bradley Manning portray him as despondent soldier", The Washington Post, June 10, 2010.
• Nicks, Denver. "Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks", This Land, September 23, 2010.
• Pilkington, Ed. "Bradley Manning defence rests after calling just 10 witnesses." The Guardian/ Wednesday July 10, 2013.

Books

• Assange, Julian; O'Hagan, Andrew. Julian Assange: The Unauthorised Autobiography. Canongate, 2011.
• Brooke, Heather. The Revolution Will Be Digitised. William Heinemann, 2011.
• Domscheit-Berg, Daniel. Inside WikiLeaks. Doubleday, 2011.
• Fowler, Andrew. The Most Dangerous Man in the World. Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
• Leigh, David; Harding, Luke. WikiLeaks: Inside Julian Assange's War on Secrecy. Guardian Books, 2011.
• Madar, Chase. The Passion of Bradley Manning. OR Books, 2012.
• Mitchell, Greg; Gosztola, Kevin. Truth and Consequences: The U.S. vs. Bradley Manning. Sinclair Books, 2012.

Video

• Smith, Martin. "The Private Life of Bradley Manning", PBS Frontline, March 2011.

Websites

• The Law Offices of David E. Coombs, Bradley Manning's lawyer, accessed April 7, 2012.
• Unofficial trial transcripts from the Freedom of the Press Foundation
• What Happened At Bradley Manning's Hearing This Week? The 300,000 documents, Arun Rath,, PBS Frontline, December 22, 2011.
• "Witness: Manning said leak would lift 'fog of war'" Army investigators, including the reference to Eric Schmiedl, see David Dishneau and Pauline Jelinek, Associated Press, December 19, 2011
• "Investigators link WikiLeaks suspect to Assange", Agence France-Presse, December 20, 2011.

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