Comments on: Surprising lack of evidence against Manning confirms over-prosecution

By: Rhonda Schmit

Rhonda Schmit — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 21:02:34 +0000

The people responsible for the abuses, and the time spent in jail that Bradley Manning had to endure, need to pay for this. They knew he wasn’t guilty all along. I’m so sick of the
good guys taking the fall for the pieces of shit running every thing. People need to pull their heads out of their ass and do the right thing for once in their pathetic life.

By: Jeff Paterson

Jeff Paterson — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 16:02:12 +0000

With Bradley’s recent to statement to the court accepting responsibility for giving the information to WikiLeaks, you are right that for SOME of the (lesser) charges, those verdicts are effectively a done deal. However, what is happening now is a hard fought battle over the major charges. The outcome of this battle is unknown. What will follow in a couple of weeks will be another hard fought battle over what punishment will be assigned to each offense. The outcome of this battle is also unknown. The result could be anything from time served, to life in prison–or absolutely anything in between.

By: William Wilvgus

William Wilvgus — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 03:47:52 +0000

How many politicians have disclosed classified material and were praised for doing so? If you’re connected, you’re a hero patriot. If you’re not connected, you’re a traitor.

By: Chris Herz

Chris Herz — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 01:56:08 +0000

Evidence in the Manning case hardly matters at all. The verdict was decided months ago.

By: dave

dave — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:11:48 +0000

The wrong people are being put on trial. It is the evil war criminals who ought to be facing prosecution and this WILL happen. Start with the president and work down from there, send them to do manual labour cleaning up their radioactive mess till they die and confiscate all of their families and corporate assets (on the basis that their family benefitted from their crimes and acted as accessories by failing to stop them from committing these crimes, after all their radiation will be killing and maiming humans for millions of years, some would advocate their genes deserve to be eradicated from the gene pool, so serious and evil are these people. As the radioactive mess continues to increase the calls for such penalties will gather more and more support and strident until it becomes law globally….

By: Wei-Ting Chen

Wei-Ting Chen — Mon, 08 Jul 2013 14:56:10 +0000

First of all, over prosecuting then offer a guilty plea has been a standard dirty trick used by the judicial system, which is used to maximize the prosecutor’s “conviction record”. Manning’s case is just a tip of iceberg. For the prosecutors, playing with the laws are their daily lives and job and they have government support while for people fight with the over prosecution, they usually need to fight that in jail (usually with unreasonable high bond) with limited resources and they don’t know much about laws and their normal lives are mostly screwed by the processes.

Second, in fact Al Qaeda is not an enemy of US. US government not only openly support the Al-Qaeda-linked group Al Nusra Front fighting in Syria, but said it is one the most important forces to fight the Syria army. Recently US just agreed to formally send the weapons to them. US government also supported Islam fundamentalists in toppling the formal Libya government. The prosecutors can play all kinds of legal tricks trying validate their claim of Manning’s “aiding the enemy”, but the fact is that all the enemy stuffs are just frauds. The people is now aiding the “enemy” of US are the US officials.