Greg Palast: Bradley Manning, The Real WikiLeaks Champ

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Greg Palast: Bradley Manning, The Real WikiLeaks Champ
Submitted by BuzzFlash on Wed, 12/01/2010 - 1:38pm.

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"It is the Mannings and Lissus and Ellsbergs who will save this sorry world, not preening camera-philiacs.
GREG PALAST FOR BUZZFLASH/TRUTHOUT

NO ONE gives a fruit fly's rectum about this heroic man now rotting in Obama's prison cell, facing a 52-year sentence. Not (That includes) That includes Mr. Assange, who did nothing to protect Bradley and doing nothing now.

My only hope is that, when Judgment is passed, Assange will join his fellows in that ring of Hell devoted to those who wear the mantle of courage stolen from others. I imagine Julian will burn quite nicely with that white silk scarf he sports around his neck.

But it's not just the Wicked Leaker who abandoned Manning. The New York Times, happy to take the bows for printing material this soldier risked his freedom for, has not lifted one finger for this brave man.

The Times, you'll recall, spent gazillions on the legal defense of that Defense Department camp follower Judith Miller, but not a penny for Manning. The Times editorialized in high dudgeon that Judith should not be jailed, but on Manning, you hear only the sounds of complicit silence

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1. That is simply not true.

Julian Assange has donated heavily to Bradley Manning's defense fund, even while not admitting that he was a leaker.