The court will not throw out charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning.
It seems that he had asked that all of the charges be thrown out. Needless to say that motion was rejected.
“The defense motion to dismiss … is denied,” military Judge Colonel Denise Lind said in a pretrial hearing, adding that if prosecutors could not prove in the trial phase that Manning knew intelligence given to WikiLeaks would reach enemy hands, the court would “provide appropriate motions.”
Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, had pressed the court to dismiss the charge.
Comparing Manning’s actions to that of a soldier speaking to a major newspaper, he argued that without an intent to provide information to the enemy, Manning’s actions constituted at most negligence.
The ruling was another blow for Manning, who made several appeals over three days of pretrial hearings this week to reduce or dismiss all 22 charges against him. Those motions were all rejected.
I would like to know why he is wearing new ASUs? Is this some kind of plan of making him look better in the court? Or the fact that he has only five ribbions and he cannot get them in right order?
Manning’s alleged motive, as he stated in his online chat logs with a confidant-turned-informant, was “I want people to see the truth.”
Yea, I really doubt that.
Category: Antiwar crowd, Shitbags
I’ve tried to give this turd ball the benefit of the doubt, in hopes that maybe he had dimished mental capacity or something. I really wanted him to be a complete imbecile who just got mind raped by a slick con man from the media with an agenda. The facts weigh out that he knew what he was doing, and didn’t care. It fit what he wanted and it’s his burden now, he owns it. Nothing you can say,….you fucked up, and now you have to pay up. He’ll be given a fair trial, and in the end, after all of the drama, hopefully he will get his just dessert. This one just needs to be flushed.
I have no “direct” knowledge of what this turd did, but I heard he gave away lots of stuff from the SIPRNET, including sources etc. I have no doubt that if half this stuff is true, this turd got people killed and screw up lots of operations….and caused millions of dollars to be wasted.
I vote that after he gets a fair trial, we re-deploy him to Afgan and have him man a gun on a thinskinned pick up truck…and do convoy duty until at some point when he “gets it.” then put him in prison for the rest of his sorry life….making sure he’s in the general population
Slightly OT, but, as an old soldier, I cannot adjust to Blues being the duty uniform. I know and understand the history. Blues means a Hail & Farewell at the club or something like that. Requirement to wear a bow tie (vs regular tie) with the Blues meant it was a BFD (and not just a prop blast). I know…excuse me while I go geeze.
Now while I know he’s a bit young to remember the whole Walker/Whitworth spy ring, shit like what they pulled and the consequences of it should and in some cases is required reading for anyone who handles classified material. The fact that he snuck the material out in. freaking Lady Gaga CD shows premeditation and should have known that the information he disclosed would have ended up in enemy hands regardless of to whom he released said info.
Burn his ass already.
Give the turd bucket his fair trial, find him guilty then revoke his citizenship and exile him to pakgahniran never allowing him to return to my United States. Or maybe shoot himp in the face with a bazooka and call it good. Afterwards, drinks are on me at the E-club!
“some kind of plan of making him look better” — YES !!
They shouldn’t throw them out. This little dick smudge needs to be held accountable for his actions. As someone once told me, you can do whatever the hell you want, just be ready to accept the consequences for your actions.
They probably had him put his ribbons on incorrectly in some kind of ploy to get pitty, “oh this guy’s so distraught he can’t even get the order of 5 ribbons right”. This guy knew what he was doing, he purposely deceived and thought he could get away with it. Now the military has installed all sorts of countermeasures on computers and plugging in any USB device that isn’t preapproved is being taken as a violation of article 92 (the catch-all).
oops i’m dumb that’s not the catch all, failure to obey orders 😛
That’s article 134, they should throw that one in there just for being a douchehammer.
The new ASUs look like something my cat threw up. FAIL.
They should go back to the Class As.
@10 yeah I spoke too soon, but I’m sure as 134 being the catch-all they could use that too.
So, he’ll stand trial on all counts. Breaks my freaking heart to hear that.
But I’m for leniency here. One day in USDB per document disclosed would be my recommendation. Served consecutively, of course.
Manning’s reported to have disclosed 250,000+ documents. That would make him eligible for parole (after serving min 1/4 of his sentence) in the year 2183.
Sounds about right to me.
The ASU is the prescribed uniform. Given that Manning does not have access to his previous personal items inventory, basic uniform items are acquired for court appearances. I don’t think there’s any more to read into that.
But it’s good news that the charges will stay.
“Or the fact that he has only five ribbions”
Not everyone has a ribbon rack like Soup Sammich ya know.
Manning deserves a nice long stint in prison and he’s sure to get that.
He also made it harder to access SIPR, but I’m not sure if that is a good or a bad thing. It seemed to me that a lot of the stuff that you could look at before was more restricted after Manning. I enjoyed being able to go on the SIPR and look at all of the various stuff that 2 shop types get to play with on a regular basis, but I’m not sure that the more restricted nature that we have now isn’t better for security.
“The ruling was another blow for Manning”. And, the UN was worried about Breanna was being treated? He’s getting what he wants.
Manning’s alleged motive, as he stated in his online chat logs with a confidant-turned-informant, was “I want people to see the truth.”
I thought it was ‘gender confusion’?
This douchenozzle has more stories than a PV2 showing up hung over at first formation.
I still think they should hang him even though they aren’t going to.