Bradley Manning, Held in WikiLeaks Case, Gains Backers. Wired's refusal to release or comment on the Manning chat logs - Glenn Greenwald. Last night, Wired posted a two-part response to my criticisms of its conduct in reporting on the arrest of PFC Bradley Manning and the key role played in that arrest by Adrian Lamo.
I wrote about this topic twice — first back in June and then again on Monday. The first part of Wired‘s response was from Wired.com Editor-in-Chief Evan Hansen, and the second is from its Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen. Both predictably hurl all sorts of invective at me as a means of distracting attention from the central issue, the only issue that matters: their refusal to release or even comment on what is the central evidence in what is easily one of the most consequential political stories of this year, at least.
That’s how these disputes often work by design: the party whose conduct is in question (here, Wired) attacks the critic in order to create the impression that it’s all just some sort of screeching personality feud devoid of substance. That’s the crux of the issue. Putting the Record Straight on the Lamo-Manning Chat Logs. Editor’s note: This is a two-part article, in which Wired.com editor-in-chief Evan Hansen and senior editor Kevin Poulsen respond separately to criticisms of the site’s WikiLeaks coverage.
Updated here The Case for Privacy Six months ago, Wired.com senior editor Kevin Poulsen came to me with a whiff of a story. A source he’d known for years claimed he was talking to the FBI about an enlisted soldier in Iraq who had bragged to him in an internet chat of passing hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling site WikiLeaks. It’s probably nothing, Poulsen said. Acknowledging the long shot, Poulsen wanted to drive up to Sacramento, California, to meet Lamo in person and try to get a copy of the alleged chats.
What followed was a days-long negotiation of two steps forward, one step back, familiar to investigative reporters whose social networks and reporting skills sometimes put them in touch with skittish sources holding the keys to serious news. He is, again, wrong. Bradley Manning WikiLeaks Protest Virginia: Daniel Ellsberg Among 35 Arrested Outside Quantico Base. More than 30 people have been arrested outside a US marine base during a protest against the treatment of a detained army private accused of giving classified information to Wikileaks.
Bradley Manning is being held in solitary confinement at the Quantico base in Virginia awaiting trial on nearly two dozen charges, including aiding the enemy. The 23-year-old former intelligence analyst is accused of handing over confidential US military and government documents to the whistleblowing website. He is suspected of leaking a military video showing an attack on unarmed men in Iraq, war logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and more than 250,000 state department cables. Hundreds of people joined a rally outside Quantico, chanting "Free Bradley Manning" and holding banners that read "Caution: Whistleblower Torture Zone".
Scuffles broke out when riot police tried to move demonstrators away from an intersection at the base entrance. Video Of Obama On Bradley Manning: “He Broke The Law” - Andy Greenberg - The Firewall. U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder. Supporters of WikiLeaks soldier heckle Obama. WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning en isolement » Article » OWNI, Digital Journalism. Suspecté d'avoir transmis des documents à WikiLeaks, Bradley Manning serait aujourd'hui placé en isolement dans une prison américaine.
Des conditions particulièrement éprouvantes, pour un individu vierge de toute condamnation. Bradley Manning, le soldat américain de 22 ans soupçonné d’être la “gorge profonde” de WikiLeaks, n’a pas été condamné pour cela, ni pour aucun autre crime. Il n’est est pas moins incarcéré depuis cinq mois en Virginie (après être resté deux mois dans une prison militaire au Koweit), et soumis à des “traitements cruels et inhumains considérés dans de nombreux pays comme relevant de la torture, susceptibles d’entraîner des séquelles psychologiques à long terme“.
C’est ce que révèle Glenn Greenwald, juriste et chroniqueur au magazine Salon, dans un long article basé sur les témoignages de plusieurs personnes en contact direct avec lui. On y apprend que, depuis son arrestation, en mai, Bradley Manning est un détenu modèle, sans problèmes de violence ni de discipline. David Rovics Song for Bradley Manning. Four Corners - The Forgotten Man. Cruel and Unusual Punishment? Protests Grow of Bradley Manning's Treatment in Detention - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. Editor's Note: SPIEGEL ONLINE has also posted a companion interview to this story with David House of the Bradley Manning Support Network, a group campaigning on behalf of the alleged WikiLeaks whistleblower.
When 23-year-old IT specialist David House visits his friend, he can hear him before he sees him. The shackles on his feet make a clanging and dragging noise across the prison floor as the young man is brought to the glass-enclosed room where he sees visitors. The prisoner House visits regularly at the military prison in Quantico, Virginia has probably divided public opinion in the United States more than any other inmate. For some, presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, also 23, is a hero who deserves medals and honors. For others, he has committed a breach of secrecy that deserves the most severe punishment. Even before an indictment has been filed against Manning, the dispute over the prisoner is coming to a head.
A Radical Shift 'This is Repugnant' Defining the Enemy. Under the U.S. Supreme Court: Bradley Manning, WikiLeaks martyr?