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24th December 2011, 00:00
"Expert witness in Manning trial: files on Manning's computer were not WiliLeaks cables.
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9am: It's Day 6 of the Bradley Manning hearing at the Fort Meade army base in Maryland, and it's the defence's turn to have its say, writes Dominic Rushe.
Manning, accused by the government of being the source of the Wikileaks cables, faces court martial. This is a pre-hearing will decide whether that
goes ahead.
Potentially Manning faces the death penalty for these charges but the government has said that it will not seek that sentence if he is convicted. However he could still face a life sentence.
The prosecution has presented days of evidence that computers used by Manning downloaded confidential cables, uploaded information to Wikileaks and were used to search for terms including Wikileaks and Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder.
Yesterday we heard from Adrian Lamo, the hacker who was Manning's confidante and turned him in to the authorities. Lamo said "a reasonable person would conclude" that a printout of his online chats shown in court were with with Bradley Manning. The acts Manning was allegedly discussing were "so outrageous" he felt compelled to go to the authorities, he said.
Today we have between two and four defence witnesses. The government
blocked David Coombs', Manning's attorney, attempts to call nearly 50
defence witnesses but he has cross-examined all the government's
witnesses.
So far the defence team have pursued a twin track. On the one hand they have pointed out that security was lax at the Iraq facility where Manning allegedly leaked the secret cables. They also got one expert witness to admit that none of the cables released by Wikileaks were the same as those he found on Manning's computers. This, however, may be misleading as we don't get a full picture. A lot of the hearing is in camera and we don't know what was discussed behind closed doors. As we know the US government treats even those documents that have already been leaked as top secret."
source
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/dec/21/bradley-manning-hearing-live-updates?newsfeed=true
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9am: It's Day 6 of the Bradley Manning hearing at the Fort Meade army base in Maryland, and it's the defence's turn to have its say, writes Dominic Rushe.
Manning, accused by the government of being the source of the Wikileaks cables, faces court martial. This is a pre-hearing will decide whether that
goes ahead.
Potentially Manning faces the death penalty for these charges but the government has said that it will not seek that sentence if he is convicted. However he could still face a life sentence.
The prosecution has presented days of evidence that computers used by Manning downloaded confidential cables, uploaded information to Wikileaks and were used to search for terms including Wikileaks and Julian Assange, the Wikileaks founder.
Yesterday we heard from Adrian Lamo, the hacker who was Manning's confidante and turned him in to the authorities. Lamo said "a reasonable person would conclude" that a printout of his online chats shown in court were with with Bradley Manning. The acts Manning was allegedly discussing were "so outrageous" he felt compelled to go to the authorities, he said.
Today we have between two and four defence witnesses. The government
blocked David Coombs', Manning's attorney, attempts to call nearly 50
defence witnesses but he has cross-examined all the government's
witnesses.
So far the defence team have pursued a twin track. On the one hand they have pointed out that security was lax at the Iraq facility where Manning allegedly leaked the secret cables. They also got one expert witness to admit that none of the cables released by Wikileaks were the same as those he found on Manning's computers. This, however, may be misleading as we don't get a full picture. A lot of the hearing is in camera and we don't know what was discussed behind closed doors. As we know the US government treats even those documents that have already been leaked as top secret."
source
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/blog/2011/dec/21/bradley-manning-hearing-live-updates?newsfeed=true