| inbluevt | Date: Wednesday, 2013/07/17, 10:04 PM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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Fort Meade, Maryland—As the defense and the prosecution rested their cases in the largest leak trial in American history, the defense argued Monday that the presiding military judge, Col. Denise Lind, should dismiss “aiding the enemy” and other serious charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning, the soldier who uploaded hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and U.S Army reports to the organization WikiLeaks, which published the material online in 2010.
Prosecutors failed to present evidence that Manning had the requisite knowledge that al Qaeda or the enemy used WikiLeaks, argued civilian defense counsel, David Coombs, on Monday. Anything less than actual knowledge would set a dangerous precedent for a free press, he said, because military prosecutors have already stated that they would have charged Manning similarly had the organization been The New York Times and not WikiLeaks.
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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted as he leaves a military court at the end of the first of a three-day motion hearing on June 6, 2012, in
Fort Meade, Maryland. (Alex Wong/Getty)
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