| inbluevt | Date: Tuesday, 2013/07/30, 8:25 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Bradley Manning the self-confessed source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of US state secrets, will learn his fate on Tuesday when a military judge announces her verdict in the most high-profile
prosecution of an official leaker in at least a generation.
The army private faces a possible sentence of life in military custody with no chance of parole should Colonel Denise Lind find him guilty of the most serious charge – that he knowingly "aided the enemy" by transmitting intelligence to WikiLeaks. In the course of the eight-week trial, which ended on Friday, the US government sought to create a new precedent by arguing that Manning knew he was helping
al-Qaida when he released more than 700,000 documents to the anti-secrecy website.
The verdict will be issued at 1pm ET by Lind sitting alone in the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland, in the absence of a jury – an arrangement made at Manning's own request. The soldier's decision to put his faith in a military judge, rather than in a panel of his peers – the military equivalent of a jury –
was a big legal gamble whose merits will become clear when the verdict comes in.
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