Cables on Bradley Manning's computer 'exactly matched' WikiLeaks documents. A forensic investigator who examined Bradley Manning's army computers following his arrest discovered thousands of US embassy cables and Guantánamo detainee reports that matched exactly the documents published by WikiLeaks, the soldier's pretrial hearing was told on Sunday.
David Shaver, an agent with the Computer Crime Investigative Unit, provided testimony to the court that is likely to prove central to any court martial of the 24-year-old soldier that might ensue. He testified that he found evidence that the soldier had been using specialist technology designed to speed up the downloading of files from databases when he explored Manning's user profile on his two army computers.
Shaver also found thousands of complete embassy cables, and hundreds of unique files related to Guantánamo detainees. When he compared the files with the documents on Guantánamo published by WikiLeaks, they matched. Manning had two work computers, marked with identification numbers .22 and .40. Bradley Manning Trial: Questioning Why So Much Is Classified. White supremacist Frazier Glenn Miller, arrested in three killings Sunday, turned white opportunist when facing decades in prison, testifying against his fellow haters in two trials.
A quarter-century before he was charged with Sunday’s three hate murders outside Kansas City, Frazier Glenn Miller figured prominently in a triple hate homicide in North Carolina. People intimately familiar with the earlier case say Miller, founder of a Ku Klux Klan chapter and a white political party, should have been a prime suspect in those killings, as well. Instead Miller became a star witness in both that murder trial and in a sedition case against 13 fellow white supremacists. Miller had proved himself to be not so much a white supremacist as a white opportunist when he found himself facing decades in prison on weapons charges in 1987.
WikiLeaks lawyers protest at denial of full access to Manning hearing. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's lawyer has been denied full access privileges at the Bradley Manning hearing.
Photograph: Suzanne Plunkett/Reuters Lawyers acting on behalf of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks are protesting that they have been denied full access to the pre-trial hearing of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of passing hundreds of thousands of secret state documents to the whistle-blowing website. A motion filed with the army appeals court on Thursday asking for legal representatives of the site to be granted full privileges in the court has been rejected, relegating Assange's lawyer Jennifer Robinson to the public benches. The lack of access could prove significant should the hearing go into private session over confidential material, to which Assange will be excluded.
Bradley Manning Pre-Trial: Live Blog, Day 2. Bradley Manning’s Article 32 hearing or, as it is more generally called, pre-trial hearing resumes today with the government laying out the evidence it thinks it has to support their prosecution.
Members of the prosecution are Captain Ashden Fein, Captain Joe Morrow and Captain Angel Overgaard. Members of the defense are Mr. David Coombs, Major Matthew Kemkes and Captain Paul Bouchard. A quick recap from yesterday: Coombs immediately presented arguments against Almanza and called for Lt. [For a complete blow-by-blow of Day 1 here is the live blog post from yesterday.] The proceedings for Saturday, December 17, are to begin at 10:00 AM EST. 10:00 PM — Final Note on the Day There appear to be two arguments being crafted by the defense: one is Bradley Manning had behavioral health issues and emotional problems, which the military should have done something about or they should have never deployed Manning in the first place.
Much more to report. Bradley Manning Defense Reveals Alter Ego Named ‘Breanna Manning’ Dec 17, 2011 6:34pm (AP Photo) Defense attorneys for Army Pvt.
First Class Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of illegally obtaining and leaking thousands of classified military and government files to the anti-secrecy group Wikileaks, have raised questions about whether his confusion over his gender identity affected his behavior and decision making at the time of his alleged acts. Witnesses at today’s pre-trial hearing were asked by defense attorneys if they knew that Manning is gay and suffered from gender identity disorder. They noted that he had created a female alter ego, calling himself Breanna Manning. At Manning Hearing, Investigator Refuses to Recuse Himself. Julian Assange on The New York Times: Part 6 December 13, 2011 · 0 Comments Source: NYTX A multipart interview with WikiLeaks Editor Julian Assange focusing on his experience collaborating with the New York Times.
Produced for NYT eXaminer (NYTX). Defense Response to Government Denial of Witnesses. Government Opposes Bradley Manning Defense Witness Requests. Bradley Manning (Facebook.com) The government is seeking to block Bradley Manning’s attorney’s attempt to call nearly 50 defense witnesses at a pre-trial hearing next week over the private’s alleged leaking of hundreds of thousands of U.S. government documents to WikiLeaks.
The government opposed all witnesses requested by the defense, except ones that the government is also calling as witnesses, according to a new filing from the defense team. WikiLeaks suspect wants Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton as witnesses - Josh Gerstein. An Army intelligence analyst charged with leaking a huge trove of diplomatic cables and military reports to WikiLeaks is demanding that President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testify as witnesses at a preliminary hearing set to begin next week.
A defense lawyer for Pfc. Defense Evidence Request.pdf. Manning hit with 22 additional criminal charges. Alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning is facing 22 additional criminal charges, including one that involves the death penalty, the U.S. military said today.
These add to the charges already pending against the U.S. Army private suspected of being the source for WikiLeaks' massive document dumps of military and State Department files. Manning is currently being held at a military jail in Quantico, Va., outside of Washington, D.C. Alleged Wikileaks source charged with leaking classified files. 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, was charged Monday 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. The charges were made public Tuesday. 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 said he subsequently tipped off and met with authorities. Manning's attorney says WikiLeaks disclosures weren't harmful. Bradley Manning's attorney has suggested that the hundreds of megabytes of U.S. government data his client allegedly handed to WikiLeaks didn't really harm national security after all. A new document filed in Manning's criminal case provides an early glimpse at the defense's legal strategy in advance of a preliminary hearing on December 16. The filing, which defense attorney David Coombs made public today, requests a copy of a White House "report detailing the rather benign nature of the leaks and the lack of any real damage to national security" caused by WikiLeaks.
It also seeks similar documents from the State Department, the Defense Department, and the Justice Department. One military damage assessment "concluded that all of the information allegedly leaked was either dated, represented low-level opinions, or was already commonly understood and known due to previous public disclosures," Coombs wrote. The U.S. Defense Seeks Documents in Army WikiLeaks Case. Bradley Manning Defense to Call 50 Witnesses to Hearing. The defense attorney representing alleged WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning plans to call up to 50 witnesses at a pre-trial hearing scheduled to occur next month in Maryland, as well as introduce a number of unspecified motions, according to the organizers of a support group for the soldier. The witnesses could include Daniel Ellsberg, famed Pentagon Papers leaker, who would talk about the benefit Manning’s alleged leaks provided to the public, as well as technical experts who would speak to the actual evidence on which the charges against Manning are based.
Manual for Courts-Martial United States - Defense Dept., Joint Service Committee on Military Justice, Etats-Unis - Google Libri. The Law Office of David E. Coombs.