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The argument emerged Tuesday during a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade for Pfc. Bradley Manning. The hearing continues Wednesday.
The issue is whether Manning's motive is relevant to a charge he aided the enemy by sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks. The government contends Manning knew, or should have known, that the information would be seen by al-Qaida.
Defense attorney David Coombs said Tuesday that prosecutors are citing Civil War-era cases concerning soldiers who placed coded messages in newspaper ads.
Coombs says Manning's alleged offenses are more akin to providing government documents to a newspaper.
The NATO/US foreign policy is entirely based upon lies and criminal behavior... from 9/11 and Al-CIA-duhh, to Spin Ladin and the "war on terror". The banksters are using the men and women of the US to illegally invade and occupy nations, to steal their resources, to destroy their infrastructure and culture. But it is covered over by lies and false patriotism.
Wikileaks has opened a window on all of this. Embarrassing officials is not a crime when in America the government derives its powers by the consent of the people and is at all time accountable to them. Bradley Manning is, above all, a citizen of the US and is a member of our society, and the government is accountable to him, as he may choose to act in our behalf... not the behalf of a corrupt and evil empire the kills innocents for profit.
It is the government that should be on trial. It is NATO commanders that should be in jail.