Bradley Manning

Obama Faces Criticism From Mentor Over Bradley Manning Treatment

Melissa Jeltsen | April 11, 2011, 4:50PM

The man who taught President Obama constitutional law is now accusing him of violating it in his own administration. Laurence Tribe, who was one of Obama's professors at Harvard and served as a Justice Department legal adviser until last December, has signed onto a letter with over 250 other legal scholars assailing the Obama administration for its treatment of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of divulging classified documents to Wikileaks.

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911 Call Alleges Bradley Manning Threatened Stepmom With Knife

David Taintor | March 30, 2011, 8:31AM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

A Frontline investigation reveals that alleged Wikileaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning threatened his stepmother with a knife in 2006.

Manning's father, Brian Manning, in an interview with Frontline said the incident spawned from a discussion of Bradley Manning needing to follow house rules. Then things reached a boiling point, he said.

"My husband's 18-year-old son is out of control and just threatened me with a knife," Manning's stepmother told the 911 dispatcher. "And his father has just had surgery and he is down on the floor... Get away from him! You, get away from him! Get away from him!"

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Report: Military Files More Charges Against Alleged WikiLeaks Source Bradley Manning

Ryan J. Reilly | March 2, 2011, 5:30PM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

The military has filed 22 additional charges against Pvt. Bradley Manning, including aiding the enemy, in the alleged massive leak of classified files, NBC News reports.

Manning is accused of illegally downloading tens of thousands of classified documents from both the U.S. military and the State Department that were later released by WikiLeaks, Jim Miklaszewski and Courtney Kube report.

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Command Changes At Brig Where Manning Is Held

Rachel Slajda | January 26, 2011, 3:24PM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

A new commander has taken over the brig at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia, where Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held on charges that he leaked classified information.

Commander James Averhart was replaced by Chief Warrant Officer Denise Barnes on Monday, a Quantico spokesman told CNN. The spokesman said the change was ordered back in October.

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Manning Visitors: We Were Detained At Base, Stopped From Visiting

Rachel Slajda | January 24, 2011, 11:23AM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

Two people who were on their way this weekend to visit Pfc. Bradley Manning, the man accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other information to Wikileaks, say they were detained at the military base where Manning is being held, apparently, they say, without reason.

David House, a hacker from Boston who says he has been visiting Manning since September, and Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, went to the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia Sunday afternoon. They were hoping to visit Manning, as well as deliver a petition to the base calling for better treatment for Manning.

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Social Conservative Bryan Fischer: Blame The Gays For WikiLeaks

David Taintor | December 9, 2010, 8:27AM

Conservative Radio Host Bryan Fischer

Bryan Fischer, the "Director of Issues Analysis" for the conservative Christian group the American Family Association, wrote on his blog this week that gays -- not Julian Assange -- are responsible for the thousands of government documents released by Assange's WikiLeaks.

More specifically, Fischer assumes that the alleged WikiLeaks source Private Bradley Manning was "at minimum" seriously confused about his sexuality. He then really stretches things when he suggests that Manning leaked the documents to wage war on the military's Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy.

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GOP Rep Doubles Down: Yes, We Ought To Execute WikiLeaks Culprit (VIDEO)

Ben Frumin | August 3, 2010, 4:29PM

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI)

Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) is not backing down.

The Republican, who suggested earlier that execution might be a fine punishment for alleged WikiLeaks source Private Bradley Manning, defended his stance on MSNBC this afternoon -- and added that death might have been an appropriate punishment for Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case, too.

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How Lady Gaga Helped Leak 150,000 Classified State Department Cables

July 9, 2010, 2:22PM

Adrian Chen | Gawker

More details are emerging about the case of Wikileaker Pvt. Bradley Manning and they are... Gagalicious. Manning's plan to download and leak thousands of classified documents to Wikileaks hinged on lip-syncing to "Telephone".

Manning allegedly leaked the Iraq Apache helicopter video, and it's believed he also downloaded over 150,000 diplomatic cables from the military's SPIR-Net and shared them with Wikileaks. How did he do it without arousing suspicion? According to the New York Times:

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Army Intelligence Analyst Charged In Wikileaks Probe

Rachel Slajda | July 6, 2010, 12:58PM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

An Army intelligence analyst, arrested in April for allegedly leaking a classified military video of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad to WikiLeaks, is now facing eight criminal charges in connection with the leak.

Pfc. Bradley Manning was charged Monday with violating the Espionage Act by transmitting classified information to an unauthorized third party. He's also facing criminal charges for abusing access to a secret-level network, and is accused of uploading unauthorized software to the network.

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