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Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty

By Jeralyn, Section Crime in the News
Posted on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 06:56:54 PM EST
Tags: Bradley Manning, Wikileaks (all tags)
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Bradley Manning has pleaded guilty to ten counts in the Wikileaks case, and faces up to 20 years in prison.

He is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison after his conviction on charges related to the misuse of classified information. He is scheduled to stand trial in June on 12 more serious charges, including aiding the enemy and espionage. A conviction on those probably would lead to a life sentence.

In pleading guilty, Manning read from a 35 page statement explaining his motives.

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    by lentinel on Thu Feb 28, 2013 at 07:26:40 PM EST
    only person I have heard of late to discuss the case of Bradley Manning is Jullian Assange.

    Are there any moves within a peace movement, civil libertarians, people against the war in Iraq, people for freedom of speech, people for freedom of information, people who think that the crimes exposed by the documents are embarrassing to the US government but threatens security only in the sense that it makes the citizenry aware of what the government is doing in its