June 1st rally for Bradley Manning! Photo by Jenna Pope.

Using unauthorized software was the norm, intelligence officers testify. 

Bradley Manning’s third day of court martial revealed that the classified information on the use of unauthorized software was quite normal within the secure SCIF office, particularly unauthorized entertainment software such as music, movies and games. mIRC was also regularly installed on secure machines. “If work was low it became allowed,” Balonek said. Asked by Coombs whether there were any restrictions on the members of the SCIF as to how much official intelligence they could download to CDs, Balonek replied: “Only the size of the CD, sir.”

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Join our campaign to support a hero! 

Noel Sheppard, the associate editor of NewsBusters.com, comments on the recent video that featured a number of Hollywood celebrities, authors, and journalists, that was recently released in support of Bradley Manning.

“It includes the likes of Oliver Stone, Russell Brand, Peter Sarsgaard, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Moby, Tom Morello, Wallace Shawn, and the perilously liberal so-called journalists Matt Taibbi, Phil Donahue, and Chris Hedges” said Sheppard.

Sheppard concluded his short article by saying “Yes, let’s bust a traitor out of jail, shall we?”

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In an interview with MSNBC Daniel Ellsberg states, “I want to see people who are part of the atrocities that Bradley Manning revealed to be tried!” 

Daniel Ellsberg said in an interview with MSNBC’s “The Cycle”, that he wished there were far more Bradley Manning’s out there. Daniel Ellsberg who attended the first day of Bradley Manning’s court martial on Monday and spoke at the largest rally held to support Bradley last Saturday, addressed the need to continue to support the hero and the whistleblower.

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News agencies can easily be aiding the enemy!

The New Yorker has put together an excellent piece discussing the first week of the trial. Amy Davidson writes,

“The prosecution has specified Al Qaeda and one of its affiliates, as well as a third organization whose identity, also disturbingly, it classified. (Overclassification is one of the scandals of this story.) At what point could “enemy” mean anyone who doesn’t like us? Can it mean us ourselves, at moments when we think that something has gone wrong, and has to be exposed?”

The prosecutors intend to bring in a witness from the Navy Seals to testify that he found a published document from the WikiLeaks website in Osama Bin Laden’s compound in Abbotabad. But just how can one news agency, or public online forum can control who their readers are and how can they avoid the government’s harassment if their readers are considered the “enemy” ?

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