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Luminous Animal

(27,310 posts) Wed Jul 31, 2013, 04:01 PM Jul 2013

Manning sentencing trial: No Afghan national killed as a result of leaks [View all]

Brig. Gen. Robert Carr confirms on stand that

Via @kgosztola https://twitter.com/kgosztola
"Afghan national killed was not in war logs, Carr testified. So no person whose name was in war logs was ever killed as result "

"Brig. Gen. Carr testified Afghan war logs had 900-plus Afghan names (but no one was killed as result of disclosure)"

Via @nathanLfuller https://twitter.com/nathanLfuller

"Judge Lind affirmed that she would disregard testimony about the person the Taliban killed, as he was not connected to the releases "

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Manning sentencing trial: No Afghan national killed as a result of leaks [View all] Luminous Animal Jul 2013 OP

So no blood on Manning's or Wikileaks' hands. It is us... Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #1

Here's the photo the government continually referred to in their arguments as proof of narcissism Catherina Jul 2013 #2

Probably because many authoritarians government are vampires and don't understand that mortals Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #3

Pssstt... TeeYiYi Jul 2013 #4

And, the NY Times continues to do their best to catapult the propaganda that he's Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #9

They know who pays them to print propaganda. Rex Aug 2013 #20

Kick. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #5

So many casual lies Hydra Jul 2013 #6

I've seen it outright asserted that an Afghani elder was killed and a name provided.. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #7

What your story illustrates scares me more than anything else so far Hydra Jul 2013 #8

The U.S. government took Taliban propaganda and presented it as truth. Disgusting. Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #11

They wanted to believe Hydra Jul 2013 #12

I know of some jailings but no killings Recursion Jul 2013 #13

If you know their names, you can search the databases. It's not enough to assert when Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #15

I have. I read that cable before it was leaked Recursion Aug 2013 #16

Then cough it up. Luminous Animal Aug 2013 #18

ummm... no thanks Recursion Aug 2013 #19

K&R Solly Mack Jul 2013 #10

What would you do? Luminous Animal Jul 2013 #14

Does anyone think that they went and knocked on 900 plus doors... Pelican Aug 2013 #17