Wikileaks and Manning have Glenn Greenwald in their corner

[Snowbird]

I'm wondering if Manning's lawyer can legally use this situation to ease his legal case. As you read through this info, which between Salon, TNYT, WaPo and Firedoglake, is quite a lot of reading, you may come to the conclusion that there is something mighty fishy going on here. And the people involved are also mighty fishy.


The worsening journalistic disgrace at Wired
by Glenn Greenwald - Salon

For more than six months, Wired's Senior Editor Kevin Poulsen has possessed -- but refuses to publish -- the key evidence in one of the year's most significant political stories: the arrest of U.S. Army PFC Bradley Manning for allegedly acting as WikiLeaks' source. In late May, Adrian Lamo -- at the same time he was working with the FBI as a government informant against Manning -- gave Poulsen what he purported to be the full chat logs between Manning and Lamo in which the Army Private allegedly confessed to having been the source for the various cables, documents and video that WikiLeaks released throughout this year. In interviews with me in June, both Poulsen and Lamo confirmed that Lamo placed no substantive restrictions on Poulsen with regard to the chat logs: Wired was and remains free to publish the logs in their entirety.

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/12/27/wired/

Much of the new evidence cited here has been found and compiled by Firedoglake in three valuable indices:

Key Wikileaks-Manning Articles
http://firedoglake.com/key-wikileaks-manning-articles/

Bradley Manning/Wikileaks Timeline
http://firedoglake.com/bradley-manning-wikileaks-timeline/

**Merged Manning-Lamo Chat Logs
http://firedoglake.com/merged-manning-lamo-chat-logs/

[Erin]

Thanks for this topic!

Glenn Greenwald has been all over TV, radio and the internet with his support for Wikileaks - and it is my opinion that he's done the best reporting on the subject I've seen (along with Democracy Now). I highly recommend reading his columns on Salon.com (http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/index.html).

Here's his appearance on Democracy Now (http://democracynow.org) from December 3rd: http://www.democracynow.org/seo/2010/12/3/is_wikileaks_julian_assange_a_hero
And here's his twitter: http://twitter.com/ggreenwald

[Humble Janitor]

I have had to contend with people I know who incorrectly believe that WL and JA stole this information that they have. It was provided to them. I also believe that Mr.Manning should not be subject to torture or solitary confinement. If they can find him guilty of treason, then treat it as it is. Otherwise, he should get a trial like any other U.S citizen. Forgive me if I'm ignorant on how the military courts work, etc.