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09:07 | 07-03-2013 | Censorship, Journalism, Jurisprudence, Politics | 1 Comment
тем временем Брэдли Мэннинг частично признал предъявленные ему обвинения и выступил с заявлением — очень хорошим, правда:
Although the information had not yet been publicly by the WLO, I felt this sense of relief by them having it. I felt I had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what I had seen and read about and knew were happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan everyday.
настоящий герой, без шуток. что тут еще можно сказать.
предчувствия, впрочем, у меня самые грустные. и теперь остается разве что вспоминать былые преценденты и ждать действительно непредвзятого разбирательства. благо, как и подчеркнул судья Поттер Стюарт ранее:
In the absence of the governmental checks and balances present in other areas of our national life, the only effective restraint upon executive policy and power in the areas of national defense and international affairs may lie in an enlightened citizenry — in an informed and critical public opinion which alone can here protect the values of democratic government. For this reason, it is perhaps here that a press that is alert, aware, and free most vitally serves the basic purpose of the First Amendment. For, without an informed and free press, there cannot be an enlightened people.
все так.
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