America WAKE UP The MANNING Circus Trial Should Be Considered UNCONSTITUTIONAL
Today's ruling also opens up a new avenue for charging leakers and whistleblowers—section (a)(1) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which until now, has never led to a conviction. It’s was crafted in the 1990s by using some of the worst parts of the Espionage Act and adding the phrase “with a computer.”
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/07/bradley-manning-espionage-act-conviction-blow-both-whistleblowers-and-journalists
A recently unsealed decision from Colleen Kollar-Kotelly just changed the interpretation of the Espionage Act for Washington DC to cover leaks that wouldn’t even harm the US.
http://blogs.fas.org/secrecy/2013/07/prosecutors-burden/
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/07/30/doj-responds-to-non-intell-committee-member-of-opposition-party-but-not-intell-committee-member-of-presidents-party/
Today's ruling also opens up a new avenue for charging leakers and whistleblowers—section (a)(1) of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which until now, has never led to a conviction. It’s was crafted in the 1990s by using some of the worst parts of the Espionage Act and adding the phrase “with a computer.”
This harsh conviction, coupled with a little noticed ruling unsealed this week (SEE ABOVE) in the Stephen Kim/Fox News leak case, will make it much easier for the government to charge leakers under the Espionage Act in the future. It's just the latest sign that the law has been morphed into a version of the UK’s Official Secrets Act—something that should be considered unconstitutional in the United States.
(if you have not read this, PLEASE DO)
https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/07/bradley-manning-espionage-act-conviction-blow-both-whistleblowers-and-journalists
These charges were unnecessary from the start, given that Manning had already pleaded guilty to ten lesser counts that would land him up to twenty years in jail no matter the outcome of the trial. With this verdict, the government is not seeking justice, it's seeking to intimidate and scare any future whistleblowers from coming forward with potentially vital information that the public should know.
There is a sliver of hope for Manning – the sentencing hearing begins tomorrow and there are no minimum sentences for the crimes he has been convicted of. The defense will also now be able to admit evidence as to his intent and the lack of damage the disclosures cost.
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also note this:
‘ We are informed that, since July 2010, PFC Manning has been confined for 23 hours a day to a single cell, measuring around 72 square feet (6.7 square metres) and equipped only with a bed, toilet and sink. There is no window to the outside, the only view being on to a corridor through the barred doors of his cell. All meals are taken in his cell, which we are told has no chair or table. He has no association or contact with other pre-trial detainees and he is allowed to exercise, alone, for just one hour a day, in a day-room or outside. He has access to a television which is placed in the corridor for limited periods of the day. However, he is reportedly not permitted to keep personal possessions in his cell, apart from one book and magazine at a time. Although he may write and receive correspondence, writing is allowed only at an allotted time during the day and he is not allowed to keep such materials in his cell.
http://www.juancole.com/2013/07/tortured-americas-bouazizi.html
I did this post for woo me with science
I am heartbroken and not of sound mind today,
thus i ramble...
kp
= new reply since forum marked as read
completely on this also.
This is a very sad day for this country. Thank you for standing up for what is right.
I already linked to the one about the changed interpretation of the Espionage Act so often I've lost count. It's that important.
I'm glad you made this an OP.
To kpete, Th1onein and Sabrina1. It's mutual.
and what I have been so sick about today:
they'll make up the law as they go along
The evidence of state's secrets that have been revealed thus far do not place in jeopardy "national security", and that already has been shown because of the evidence presented. What was or wasn't redacted and anything else that goes along with breaching national security hasn't been tried in due process.
So, see if you can wrap your brain around the fact that the evidence SEEN (a war crime that surely has been played over and over and over for the blind who cannot acknowledge what goes on in it) is a crime that is not punished. The person bringing it to our collective attentions as AMERICANS is being punished.
This will surely be lost on you, based on your response.... So deal with those facts and good luck with being fit for your nose ring.
Go back to bed American... Watch American Gladiator... Nothing to be seen nor understood here... Go back to bed! 
This deft reasoning of yours surrounding the of downloading 700,000 documents, but leaving out the part to whom he reveals them to is a little strange to me. Manning relies on a source to have journalistic responsibility is more like conspiracy, rather than treason. You leave out who the other party was, and how responsible they were in release or redacting that vast volume of information. So, rather than unceremoniously (documents which WE both have not read), or HAVING HAD RELEASED INFORMATION THAT DOES NOT PUT LIVES IN DANGER, but CALLS OUT WAR CRIMES... the SAME crimes that by due process his command structure conspired to withhold, Manning does nothing more than whistle blow.
You remember when Valerie Plame was outed by that dick weed in the mainstream media? Now THAT'S a misuse of journalistic review. Was anyone who was responsible for outing Plame arrested? No... and what abuse gets recognized here?
Get yourself pointed in an accurate direction before you stick your foot in your mouth further. By the way... do you even THINK what happened that Manning revealed WAS a war crime? You leave out the part you wish to. How convenient of you to have left that out.
How unAmerican of you to have left that out.
Okay, which size nose ring did you say you prefer to wear today? ooo000OOO Go back to bed, American... 
- The whole of the American government is illegitimate. And has been for quite some time. Ever since it succumbed to powers that lie outside Constitutional authority.......
''For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.'' ~Jonathan Swift
