Comments on: Manning’s defense seeks public access to court filings

By: Do not betray Julian Assange. My heart goes out to Bradley manng but no matter what he says or does they will nail him. We must get Obama to pardon him after the storm has passed.

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:24:59 +0000

The military is Silence would be the best defense tactic.

By: Do not betray Julian Assange. My heart goes out to Bradley manng but no matter what he says or does they will nail him. We must get Obama to pardon him after the storm has passed.

Mon, 02 Apr 2012 21:24:01 +0000

The military is not interested in a fair trial.Supposedly Manning confessed to a friend. It was all very mumbled. Civilian authorities need to allow this to be a free and transparent crowd from his neighborhood.

By: r.dahlin

r.dahlin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:29:13 +0000

Apparently the U.S. people aren’t intelligent enough. Yes they are intelligent enough for some things but when it comes to protecting their safety and rights they aren’t intelligent. They avoid applying the solution by organizing and uniting in their drive to holding their so-called officials accountable. The easiest and most productive way is to hold a proper and thorough criminal investigation of the incident 9/11. Then a whole dragnet based on the investigation will haul in a whole bunch of upper crust high criminals. When these criminals are either executed or jailed it will bring all things into a neat little line.
I’m deeply disturbed that counsel for Manning, including Combs, is encouraging him to roll over on Assange. I believe that would only serve to close off our access to whistleblowers and the information they bring. This would be a chilling effect on revealing crimes, abuse and racketeering within gov’t. and industry. We must protect all those involved in bringing the truth so the people can make informed decisions should they decide to act.

By: r.dahlin

r.dahlin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 06:00:57 +0000

Right on brauddah, you said it right. the military is its own juggernaut. It simply answers to no one including any civilian authority including the LHN.
Yes, I wonder why the people hasn’t rebelled and hung that LHN and the other Holder.

As far as I can see the people are all sheeple, cowards and have certainly lost their way. It seems there is no salvation for them.

I’ll be damned to see this fascist regime.

By: Carol

Carol — Sun, 01 Apr 2012 15:21:55 +0000

@John Frances Lee, i agree completely with your comment.
What the court is forgetting is that we, the civilians, have also a mind of our own, that we are even quite intelligent. And that we easily see through there, very childish, excuses.

The reasoning of the court is an amazing see through of there argument. They are not really arguments, they have not any honest and justifiable content, they are not even a smoke screen, so easily you can see through their argumentations.
There is only one thing behind it, and that is to give Bradley a dishonest trial and to condemn him to life in prison. No other reason. And for that reason they tell us all kinds of childish stories.
But they forget that in the eyes of the normal American citizen they by far have lost any credibility.
We are not children whom you can tell a fairy tale, you have to come with intelligent and strong reasoning and argumentation in a situation where Bradley already has show that he does want to present the American people as an honest bunch, by showing the things that they should not do in front of the rest of the world. Because in the rest of the world, i am French, we are beginning to get a very peculiar view on the Americans, while we know that most or the ordinary inhabitant of the States is normal and decent.

Carol

By: Will Candler

Will Candler — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:45:02 +0000

This totally demonstrates the need for Wikileaks!

By: Mirjam Eikelboom

Mirjam Eikelboom — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 20:31:47 +0000

What I want to see from the USA government is a clear description of the process according to which these Court Proceedings are redacted. What are the criteria, who has established them and what is their goal and legal basis??

By: john francis lee

john francis lee — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 07:01:20 +0000

” The organizations also believe the lack of transparency undercuts the public’s confidence in the fairness of the military justice system. ”

You’re kidding, right? The ‘public’ has never had any confidence in the fairness of the military justice system… of the fairness of anything to do with the military… to undercut!

‘Redacted motions’… everything about this show-trial evokes a profound nostalgia for a United States of America that is no more… that perhaps never was.

The NDAA… Obama/Holder arrogating to themselves the ‘right’ to murder people, including American citizens, anywhere on earth.,. the National Defense Resources Preparedness (NDRP) order, in effect the notice of Obama’s coup d’etat… we have allowed control of our government, our sovereignty, to slip through our fingers.

By: Vicky Gallas

Vicky Gallas — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 05:59:01 +0000

I know little to nothing about the UCMJ. So is the military excused from the public release of filed documents or is it just the Brad Manning case?