I’m not a veteran, so I’ll leave the answer to veterans- did this perp commit treason?
Definitely a Military Tribunal in Baghdad ... not something in a federal court in NYC.
I would think the firing squad would be on the table also.
The last soldier executed after military trial for desertion was Pvt Slovak during WWII for desertion ... I believe.
“Soldier arrested in WikiLeaks classified Iraq video case”
By Peter Grier, Staff writer / June 7, 2010
SNIPPET: “The US Army has arrested Specialist Bradley Manning, a soldier deployed in Iraq with the 10th Mountain Division, on charges that he allegedly released classified information. The military is looking at a possible connection between Spc. Manning and WikiLeaks, an online whistleblower organization which in April published a graphic video of an Apache gunship mistakenly shooting civilians, according to Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman.”
How long before the leftists proclaim this man to be a hero and a "political prisoner"?
The part that you are missing is that the liberals are only mad because the whistleblower leaked Hillary Clinton’s diplomatic cables to 3rd world leaders.
That’s why this whistleblower is being strung up.
Back when he leaked thousands of Bush documents, he was a hero.
Now, he’s a villain.
If not execution, life in prison.
We have to stop letting people just get away with this stuff. When Jane Fonda went to Hanoi and was not charged with treason, we made it virtually impossible to charge anyone with treason.
Now, I know there are good and valid reasons to make the bar for treason very high, back in the 18th Century, the English Crown used treason as a catch-all offense.
But what this guy did was more than just wrong.
It was treason.
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U.S. Army analyst arrested for alleged leak of video, documents to Wikileaks
The Hill ^ | June 7, 2010 | Gautham Nagesh
Posted on June 7, 2010 9:48:14 AM PDT by jazusamo
A U.S. Army intelligence analyst serving in Iraq has been arrested by federal officials for allegedly leaking classified information to the online whistleblower site Wikileaks, according to a Wired blog.
Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., is reportedly the source of the controversial video of a 2007 American helicopter strike that claimed the lives of several bystanders. Wikileaks published that video in April.
Manning reportedly became a target of the investigation after boasting of leaking more than a quarter of a million classified documents to former hacker Adrian Lamo, who reported him to the Army. Lamo claimed, via his Twitter account on Sunday evening, that he did so out of concern for national security.
“I outed Manning as an alleged leaker out of duty. I would never out an Ordinary Decent Criminal. There’s a difference,” Lamo tweeted. “I’m heartsick for Manning and his family. I hope they can forgive me some day for doing what I felt had to be done.”
According to chat transcripts provided to Wired, Manning claimed to have collected and leaked a wide range of classified information to Wikileaks. They included a video showing the 2009 Garani airstrike in Afghanistan that Wikileaks has said before it possesses, a classified Army document discussing Wikileaks as a security threat that the site published in March, and 260,000 classified U.S. diplomatic cables.
“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, claiming the cables expose “almost criminal political back dealings.”
Wikileaks founder Julian Assange tweeted early Monday that “If Brad Manning, 22, is the ‘Collateral Murder’ & Garani massacre whistleblower then, without doubt, he’s a national hero.” He also referred to Lamo and Wired reporter Kevin Poulson, who broke the story, as “notorious felons, informers and manipulators.”
Assange also claimed the Washington Post had the “Collateral Murder” video of the helicopter attack for more than a year but did not release it to the public.
The Pentagon on Monday released the following statement: “United States Division-Center is currently conducting an investigation of Spc. Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., who is deployed with 2nd Brigade 10th Mountain Division, in Baghdad, Iraq.
He was placed in pre-trial confinement for allegedly releasing classified information and is currently confined in Kuwait.
The Department of Defense takes the management of classified information very seriously because it affects our national security, the lives of our Soldiers, and our operations abroad. The results of the investigation will be released upon completion of the investigation.”
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Why Is Wikileaks Collecting Military Email Addresses?
gawker.com ^ | 5/10/10 | staff
Posted on May 10, 2010 10:37:16 AM PDT by Nachum
Why Is Wikileaks Collecting Military Email Addresses?Helicopter video-leakers Wikileaks just asked for a “list of as many .mil email addresses as possible” via Twitter. That is weird. What are they up to?
(Excerpt) Read more at gawker.com ...
Note that he didn't just lift a video and send it to Wikileaks. He also stole and released 260,000 classified US State Department diplomatic cables."
I've got mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, they were classified cables. On the other hand, he single-handedly created a diplomatic nightmare for Hildebeast and hundreds of Obama donors who got cushy ambassador jobs for donating to his campaign.
That latter part has to be worth at least something in the case for leniency.
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“Bradley Manning, suspected source of Wikileaks documents, raged on his Facebook page”
By Heidi Blake, John Bingham and Gordon Rayner
Published: 10:00PM BST 30 Jul 2010
SNIPPET: “Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual...”
SNIPPET: “His tagline on his personal page reads: “Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!””
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "BRADLEY MANNING, SUSPECTED SOURCE OF WIKILEAKS DOCUMENTS, RAGED ON FACEBOOK PAGE" (SNIPPET: "Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual..." SNIPPET: "His tagline on his personal page reads: "Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!"") (July 30, 2010, 10:00 pm BST)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Editorial: "A WIKILEAK TOO FAR There are limits to press freedom in times of war" (SNIPPET: "These secret reports have the greatest possibility of causing deadly consequences, which under the American legal tradition is why those who leaked them should be held accountable.") (July 29, 2010, 6:03 pm)
Travel.State.Gov - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs - Travel Warning: "PAKISTAN" (SNIPPET: "The presence of Al-Qaida, Taliban elements, and indigenous militant sectarian groups poses a potential danger to U.S. citizens throughout Pakistan...") (July 22, 2010)
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http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=60224
Biden: Pakistani Support for Taliban ‘In the Past’
By Lisa Daniel
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, July 29, 2010 – Vice President Joe Biden today acknowledged that some people in Pakistan’s intelligence community had supported the Taliban, but he said that situation is changing.
“That’s been a problem in the past, it’s a problem we’re dealing with, and [it] is changing,” Biden said in an interview that aired on NBC’s “Today” television show this morning. The interview with Ann Curry was taped yesterday while Biden and his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, were at Fort Drum, N.Y., to welcome home the Army’s 10th Mountain Division’s 2nd Brigade Combat Team from Iraq.
Biden’s comments referenced WikiLeaks’ July 25 Web posting of at least 75,000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan spanning from January 2004 to December 2009. One issue highlighted in the documents involves allegations that members of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, supported the Taliban while accepting U.S. funding to fight against them. President Barack Obama announced the current U.S. policy in Afghanistan, to include Pakistan, in December 2009.
“All those leaks predate our policy,” Biden said. “Not one leak is consistent with our policy announced in December.” He added that no U.S. money was diverted from its stated purposes in Pakistan.
Asked to justify U.S. spending in Afghanistan, Biden said the U.S. mission there is not “nation-building,” but to stamp out al-Qaida so the terrorist group cannot continue to threaten the United States.
“We are in Afghanistan for one express purpose: al-Qaida, and its threat to the United States,” he said. “We’re not there to nation build. We’re not there to turn this into a Jeffersonian democracy. We’re not there for ten years. We’re there to defeat al-Qaida, which operates there, and [the situation] is a clear and present danger to the U.S.”
When asked how the United States and NATO coalition can defeat al-Qaida when it operates in Pakistan, Biden responded, “I assure you, we are doing significant damage to al-Qaida in Pakistan, as well as in Afghanistan. We’re making progress, but the truth of the matter is there’s more to go.”
On Iraq, Biden said there should be no concerns that reducing troop strength to 50,000 by September 1 will cause an explosion in insurgent violence there.
“I can’t guarantee anything, but I’m willing to bet everything there won’t be any such explosion,” he said. “Neither I, nor General [Raymond T.] Odierno, or the Pentagon, or the people who have been on the ground so many times think that is likely to happen.
“We’ll still have 50,000, battle-tested, combat troops in Iraq who are going from leading combat to supporting Iraqi combat capability,” he added.
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July 31, 2010 4:16 PM PDT
“Researcher detained at U.S. border, questioned about Wikileaks”
by Elinor Mills
LAS VEGAS —
SNIPPET: “Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland flight Thursday morning when he was pulled aside by customs and border protection agents who told him he was randomly selected for a security search, according to the sources familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous.
Appelbaum, a U.S. citizen, was taken into a room, frisked and his bag was searched. Receipts from his bag were photocopied and his laptop was inspected but it’s not clear in what manner, the sources said. Officials from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the U.S. Army then told him he was not under arrest but was being detained, the sources said. They asked questions about Wikileaks, asked for his opinions about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and asked where Wikileaks founder Julian Assange is, but he declined to comment without a lawyer present, according to the sources. He was not permitted to make a phone call, they said.
After about three hours, Appelbaum was given his laptop back but the agents kept his three mobile phones, sources said.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3931278,00.html
“Swedish web hosting firm confirms WikiLeaks link”
Published: 08.06.10, 18:09 / Israel News
SNIPPET: “A Swedish Internet company linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it’s helping online whistle-blower WikiLeaks release classified documents from servers located in a basement in the Stockholm suburb of Solna.
Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web hosting company PRQ...”
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http://www.aim.org/aim-column/military-homosexual-scandal-tied-to-wikileaks-treason/
“Military Homosexual Scandal Tied to WikiLeaks Treason”
BY CLIFF KINCAID | AUGUST 1, 2010
SNIPPET: “The riveting Telegraph account of Manning’s growing rage and anger raises serious questions of how the soldier was able to flaunt his homosexuality despite the fact that the Pentagon still officially has a policy in place of excluding open homosexuals from military service.
In the scandal involving the theft and release of classified military information that could cost the lives of U.S. military personnel, the British Telegraph newspaper is reporting that the American soldier at the center of the scandal was “openly homosexual” and apparently held a grudge against the U.S. because of the military’s anti-gay policy.
In another bizarre twist, reliable reports suggest that Private First Class Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army Intelligence analyst accused of leaking the classified information to the WikiLeaks.org website, was not only a homosexual but was considering a sex change.”
SNIPPET: “Commenting on transcripts of chats between Manning and Lamo, the website known as “QueerTV” said that Manning “might be one of us” and that the conversations “reveal the soldier might identify as transgender.”
Manning’s affinity on his Facebook page for “Repeal the Ban” is also significant. It is a project of a group called Servicemembers United, which describes itself as “the nation’s largest organization of gay and lesbian troops and veterans, their allies and supporters.” The group receives financial support from the Open Society Institute of billionaire George Soros.
As the military and the FBI attempt to get to the bottom of what Manning allegedly did and for what reason, the need for an investigation of homosexual misconduct in the Armed Forces—before any change in policy is adopted by Congress—has been presented in dramatic fashion.”
http://internet-haganah.com/harchives/006928.html
08 August 2010
“TARGET: WIKILEAKS”
SNIPPET: “Insurance?
There is no insurance.
AMF.”
YNET NEWS.com: "SWEDISH WEB HOSTING FIRM CONFIRMS WIKILEAKS LINK" (SNIPPET: "A Swedish Internet company linked to file-sharing hub The Pirate Bay says it’s helping online whistle-blower WikiLeaks release classified documents from servers located in a basement in the Stockholm suburb of Solna. Mikael Viborg, the owner of the Web hosting company PRQ...") (Published August 6, 2010, 18:09/Israel News)
News.CNET.com: Las Vegas - "RESEARCHER DETAINED AT U.S. BORDER, QUESTIONED ABOUT WIKILEAKS" by Elinor Mills (SNIPPET: "Jacob Appelbaum, a Seattle-based programmer for the online privacy protection project called Tor, arrived at the Newark, New Jersey, airport from Holland flight Thursday morning when he was pulled aside by customs and border protection agents who told him he was randomly selected for a security search, according to the sources familiar with the matter who asked to remain anonymous.") (JULY 31, 2010, 4:16 PM PDT)
TELEGRAPH.co.uk: "BRADLEY MANNING, SUSPECTED SOURCE OF WIKILEAKS DOCUMENTS, RAGED ON FACEBOOK PAGE" (SNIPPET: "Mr Manning, who is openly homosexual..." SNIPPET: "His tagline on his personal page reads: "Take me for who I am, or face the consequences!"") (July 30, 2010, 10:00 pm BST)
WASHINGTON TIMES.com - Editorial: "A WIKILEAK TOO FAR There are limits to press freedom in times of war" (SNIPPET: "These secret reports have the greatest possibility of causing deadly consequences, which under the American legal tradition is why those who leaked them should be held accountable.") (July 29, 2010, 6:03 pm)
DEFENSE.gov (AMERICAN FORCES PRESS SERVICE): Washington - "Biden: Pakistani Support for Taliban 'In the Past'" by Lisa Daniel (SNIPPET: "Biden’s comments referenced WikiLeaks' July 25 Web posting of at least 75,000 secret documents on the war in Afghanistan spanning from January 2004 to December 2009. One issue highlighted in the documents involves allegations that members of the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, supported the Taliban while accepting U.S. funding to fight against them.") (July 29, 2010)
Travel.State.Gov - U.S. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Bureau of Consular Affairs - Travel Warning: "PAKISTAN" (SNIPPET: "The presence of Al-Qaida, Taliban elements, and indigenous militant sectarian groups poses a potential danger to U.S. citizens throughout Pakistan...") (July 22, 2010)
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http://www.defense.gov//News/NewsArticle.aspx?ID=103001
Pentagon Demands WikiLeaks Return Stolen Documents
By Elaine Wilson
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Aug. 6, 2010 – The Defense Department is demanding that WikiLeaks immediately return the stolen military documents in its possession, including 15,000 documents that the website has not yet published, Pentagon Press Secretary Geoff Morrell said here yesterday.
The department also wants the whistle-blower website to permanently delete all versions of these documents, which contain classified and sensitive information, from its website, computers and records, Morrell told reporters at a Pentagon briefing.
“We are asking them to do the right thing,” he said. “This is the appropriate course of action, given the damage that has already been done.”
The website recently published tens of thousands of classified documents spanning the January 2004 to December 2009 time frame. The documents detail field reports from Afghanistan and an alleged Pakistani partnership with the Taliban, and also include names of Afghan informants who work or have worked with the U.S. military.
Last week’s disclosure “has already threatened the safety of our troops, our allies and Afghan citizens who are working with us to help bring about peace and stability in that part of the world,” Morrell said.
Recent reports claim that WikiLeaks asked the department for help in reviewing these documents before releasing them to the public as part of a “harm minimization exercise,” Morrell said.
“WikiLeaks has made no such request directly to the Department of Defense,” he said.
The Defense Department is not yet sure which 15,000 documents the site is referring to, Morrell said. “We have some ideas and are doing some proactive work … in the event that the documents we suspect they could be are indeed the documents they are threatening to post,” he said, adding that the public disclosure of additional documents can only exacerbate the damage.
Defense officials further are demanding that WikiLeaks cease its “brazen solicitation” of U.S. government officials, including the military, to break the law, Morrell said. If WikiLeaks does not comply with these demands, he added, Pentagon officials will look to other options to “compel them to do the right thing.”
“This is an appropriate first step,” Morrell said. “We will cross the next bridge when we come to it.”
The incident is a matter of interest to the U.S. government as a whole, not just the military, Morrell said. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates asked the FBI to investigate early on, and the Justice Department also is involved. The Pentagon has a task force of more than 80 experts — from the Defense Department as well as other agencies — working around the clock to find issues of concern, he said.
When necessary, officials are notifying the appropriate entities, such as commanders in Afghanistan, Morrell said, and the Defense Department also is taking measures internally to reinforce existing rules and guidelines and boost vigilance.
Gates and Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, condemned the leaks during a Pentagon briefing July 29.
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He will never get the death sentence.
Don’t you know that gay men are SPECIAL in our society?
Turn on your PBS station. Get the message. They are the ruling class. Straight, white middle class people are the losers, the worker drones. AND, we are supposed to donate money to their stupid liberal and sodomite causes.