Bradley Manning faces 52 years in jail | World news
Bradley Manning will wake up tomorrow, at a military base in Virginia, to his 189th day in custody for the alleged leak of more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks. Manning, 23, a US army intelligence analyst brought up in the Oklahoma Bible belt and west Wales, is locked up with about half a dozen others in the marine-run facility in Quantico. He has had access to TV news and briefings from his lawyer, but little can have prepared him for the fury of the government he served about the impact of the cables leak. Hillary Clinton, the secretary of state, said it "tore at the fabric of government" and pledged "aggressive steps to hold responsible those who stole this information". Republicans branded it terrorism. He is said by friends to be on antidepressants and only a limited list of visitors are able to see him, yet one who saw him in recent weeks told the Guardian he was "doing surprisingly well, he is in high spirits". But who is Bradley Manning, and what motivated him?
Yuko Mohri: The execution of Mary | 5uper.net Coded Cultures - Exploring Creative Emergences, Vienna 2009
Yuko Mohri uses a scanner as a plate with salad and also a printer with four wheels which runs along a platform…? Everyday machines, such as computer devices for instance, are specifically designed to work with data; on the other hand, these machines carry within the possibility to be treated as real objects. In her installation, computer and data devices, used in an unconventional way, are subjected to unusual operations and becoming “performative objects”, open up unpredicted possibilities. The resulting images represent a record, which enables us to look at these media devices from another point of view. This installation is made of three main devices: a scanner is placed on the wall upright; a gadget made of gearwheels producing motion, is installed in front of the scanner; a printer with four wheels runs along a platform. Yuko Mohri (Japan) Yuko Mohri, an artist, was born in 1980.
Manning 'Guilty' on Most Counts, Faces 100 Years in Prison
Manning supporters outside Fort Meade, Tuesday (Photo via Twitter / Ed Pilkington) Pfc. Bradley Manning, the army whistleblower who exposed egregious U.S. war crimes after revealing military documents to the website WikiLeaks, has been found guilty of almost all of his charges in a military court in Fort Meade, Maryland and could face a maximum of more than 100 years in jail. On Tuesday, Judge Col. Manning's official sentencing phase begins Wednesday morning at 9:30 EST. Watch Democracy Now! Follow live tweets from journalist following the trial here: As reporter Kevin Gosztola points out , the verdict comes on the anniversary of the U.S.' During the trial, Manning’s civilian defense attorney, David Coombs, had argued , “No case has ever been prosecuted under this type of theory, that an individual by the nature of giving information to a journalistic organization would then be charged with 'aiding the enemy.'"
In his own words: 'This belongs in the public domain' | World news
On 21 May this year, Bradley Manning initiated a series of online chats with former hacker Adrian Lamo. Below are edited excerpts that took place over several days, and which Lamo gave to Wired.com (and to the FBI). Dates are approximate. May 21 (1:41:12 pm) Bradley Manning: hi (1:44:04 pm) Manning: how are you? (1:47:01 pm) Manning: im an army intelligence analyst, deployed to eastern baghdad, pending discharge for "adjustment disorder" [. . .] (1:56:24 pm) Manning: im sure you're pretty busy… (1:58:31 pm) Manning: if you had unprecedented access to classified networks 14 hours a day 7 days a week for 8+ months, what would you do? May 22 Manning apparently told Lamo that he had provided WikiLeaks with 260,000 classified diplomatic cables (as well videos of a 2007 airstrike in Iraq and a 2009 airstrike in Afghanistan). (1:39:03 pm) Manning: i cant believe what im confessing to you :'( Later, Manning discussed his role as a source for WikiLeaks and his links with its founder Julian Assange.
Transcript | US v Pfc. Manning, Article 39(a) Session, 11/08/12
For more information on the lack of public and press access to United States v. Pfc. Manning, visit the Center for Constitutional Rights, which filed a petition requesting the Army Court of Criminal Appeals (ACCA) "to order the Judge to grant the public and press access to the government's motion papers, the court's own orders, and transcripts of proceedings, none of which have been made public to date." This transcript of the Article 39(a) Session held on November 8, 2012 at Fort Meade, Maryland in US v Pfc. Judge: Army Col. Judge Lind Please be seated. Prosecution (Fein) [Appellate exhibit 379] ....after [yesterday's] session, defense and the Government [had a] discussion. [This next part concerns interrogatories from the defense to the prosecution concerning the Speedy Trial motion. ...because of all that an unanticipated number of questions from defense...prosecution has asked Court for motion to leave...26 November to 5 December to answer 137 questions. Defense (Coombs) Granted. No...
U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe | Threat Level
Federal officials have arrested an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site Wikileaks, Wired.com has learned. PFC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. A family member says he’s being held in custody in Kuwait, and has not been formally charged. Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. “Hillary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack when they wake up one morning, and find an entire repository of classified foreign policy is available, in searchable format, to the public,” Manning wrote. Wired.com could not confirm whether Wikileaks received the supposed 260,000 classified embassy dispatches.
Cornel West and Chris Hedges discuss Bradley Manning verdict
