WikiLeaks and Assange were mentioned repeatedly during the trial
08:40 | 31-07-2013 | Jurisprudence, Politics | No Comments
Bradley Manning, the source of the massive WikiLeaks trove of secret disclosures, faces a possible maximum sentence of 136 years in military jail after he was convicted on Tuesday of most charges on which he stood trial.
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The one ray of light in an otherwise bleak outcome for Manning was that he was found not guilty of the single most serious charge against him – that he knowingly “aided the enemy”, in practice al-Qaida, by disclosing information to the WikiLeaks website that in turn made it accessible to all users including enemy groups.
как сказал когда-то Филип Киндред Дик, “this has been a novel about some people who were punished entirely too much for what they did.”
к сожалению, это больше не роман.