Manning Trial Today: Tensions flare between military & journalists during closing arguments

[99th_Monkey]

Tensions continued to flare between the military and journalists covering the closing arguments in the Bradley Manning trial on Friday.

On Thursday, journalists reported that armed military officers were walking the aisles of the media center, leaning over and looking at their computers, and telling them they were barred from tweeting.

HuffPost's Matt Sledge, who is at Fort Meade, wrote that the ramped-up security was a result of a direct order from Denise Lind, the military judge overseeing the trial.

O'Brien said things were "less tense" than on Thursday, but there were clearly lingering issues, judging from the tweets being sent out:

TWEETS at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/26/journalists-bradley-manning-trial-libya_n_3660309.html?utm_hp_ref=media

[Cali_Democrat]

1. If the Judge tells them they shouldn't send out tweets during the trial

then they shouldn't send out tweets, but this seems heavy-handed.

Was a journalist previously sending out tweets during the trial when specifically told not to?