On Tuesday, the U.S. military announced that it would press criminal charges against 22-year-old Pfc. Bradley Manning for allegedly transferring classified military information to his personal computer and “delivering national defense information to an unauthorized source.” The charges appear to be connected to the leak of a classified video that Wikileaks released to the public
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/07/06/army-specialist-court-martialed-wikileaks-case/
WSJ link included at link.
I don’t understand why no charges could be brought up against Julian Assenge, the founder of WikiLeaks. He knew what he was doing and was warned against it before publishing. It’s absurd that there is no law against such an irresponsible act. Its almost certain that this guy now has blood on his hands.
Anyone thinking of helping US and Nato forces would be too reluctant to do it now.