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    <description>Bradley Manning is a US soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed classified military material to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. Assigned to an army unit based near Baghdad, Manning had access to databases used by the military to transmit classified information. He was charged with 22 offences by the US government, including those of communicating national defence information to an unauthorised source and aiding the enemy. A military judge on July 30 2013...</description>
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      <description>The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks has made a rare foray into public life to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
Chelsea Manning is serving 35 years on espionage charges.
"I understand my actions violated the law. However, the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved," the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial.
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2014 14:30:27 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Public being told more lies about Iraq, says Chelsea Manning</title>
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      <description>Bradley Manning is among the most polarising of all whistle-blowers. That the former US soldier is a criminal there is no doubt, but his theft of more than 700,000 classified documents on the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts and his passing of them to the website WikiLeaks also makes him to some a hero, to others an enemy of the state. Consequently, the 35-year prison sentence he has been given by a military court on charges including theft and computer fraud is viewed as either too harsh or...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 24 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>A need to weigh the rights and wrongs in dealing with whistle-blowers</title>
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      <description>Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman named Chelsea and wants to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible, the US soldier said yesterday, a day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison for the biggest leak of classified material in US history.
Manning announced the decision in a written statement provided to NBC, asking supporters to refer to him by his new name and the feminine pronoun. The statement was signed "Chelsea E. Manning".

"As I transition into this next phase of my life, I...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 22 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Call me Chelsea: Bradley Manning plans to live as a woman</title>
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      <description>Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of the biggest breach of classified data in the nation’s history by providing files to WikiLeaks, was sentenced to 35 years in prison on Wednesday.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind, who last month found Manning guilty of 20 charges including espionage and theft, could have sentenced him to as many as 90 years in prison. Prosecutors had asked for 60 years.

Manning, 25, will be dishonourably discharged from the US military and forfeit some pay, Lind said. His...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 14:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>US Army Private Bradley Manning will be sentenced on Wednesday for handing a mass of data to WikiLeaks in the biggest breach of official secrets in American history.
The 25-year-old soldier was convicted of espionage and other crimes last month, having admitted being the source of hundreds of thousands of war reports from Afghanistan and Iraq and confidential US diplomatic cables.
His sentencing, due at 10 am, is considered especially important as another leaker - the former intelligence...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 21 Aug 2013 07:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>US military prosecutors in the court-martial of Bradley Manning have asked the judge to sentence him to at least 60 years in prison.
They argued that his leaks of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website in 2010 severely damaged US intelligence operations and made a mockery of the nation's diplomatic missions.

"There may be no soldier in the history of the army who displayed such an extreme disregard," Army Captain Joe Morrow said of the 25-year-old former junior intelligence analyst in...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>A military judge was set to deliberate the sentence of American soldier Bradley Manning on Tuesday for leaking troves of classified evidence to anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
Colonel Denise Lind said she’ll begin deliberating when the court-martial resumes. Manning faces up to 90 years in prison for giving the anti-secrecy group more than 700,000 US military and diplomatic documents and some battlefield video documenting civilian deaths.
On Monday, a prosecutor said Manning should spend 60 years...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2013 08:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Judge to deliberate in Manning court-martial</title>
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      <description>US soldier Bradley Manning took the stand at his sentencing hearing in the WikiLeaks case and apologised for hurting his country. He pleaded with a military judge for a chance to go to college and become a productive citizen.
Manning addressed the court on Wednesday after a day of testimony about his troubled childhood in the state of Oklahoma.

The court also heard of the extreme psychological pressure that experts said he felt in the "hyper-masculine" military because of his gender-identity...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>US Army private Bradley Manning apologised on Wednesday for leaking secret intelligence files to WikiLeaks and admitted for the first time he had harmed his country and others.
“I’m sorry that my actions have hurt people and have hurt the United States,” he told a military judge, Colonel Denise Lind, at a sentencing hearing at Fort Meade, northeast of Washington.

	I’m sorry that my actions have hurt people and have hurt the United States

	Bradley Manning
Manning, convicted last month of...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 15 Aug 2013 00:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>The military judge who last week convicted soldier Bradley Manning of committing the biggest breach of classified data in US history through WikiLeaks has trimmed the maximum prison sentence Manning could face.
But the 25-year-old former intelligence analyst could still be spending the rest of his life behind bars after Judge Colonel Denise Lind ruled that he could face a maximum sentence of 90, rather than 136 years for turning over more than 700,000 battlefield videos, diplomatic cables and...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 07 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Bradley Manning's potential sentence cut to 90 years</title>
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      <description>A play about Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted by a military judge last week for passing classified information to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, won a newly created drama prize at Britain's oldest literary awards.
Welsh playwright Tim Price's The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning became the first winner of the £10,000 (HK$119,200) James Tait Black Prize for Drama at an awards ceremony held in Edinburgh.

The play tracks the US-born Manning's journey from his teenage years in a Welsh...</description>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 06 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>A US State Department official is set to testify on Monday about how much convicted soldier Bradley Manning’s leaks of classified diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks website hurt ties between Washington and its allies as well as global intelligence-sharing methods.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind on July 30 found Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, guilty of 19 criminal counts related to the leaks, the largest unauthorised release of secret US data in the nation’s history.
Manning was found...</description>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2013 06:33:39 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>The New York Times
Lurking just behind a military court's conviction of Private Bradley Manning … is a national-security apparatus that has metastasised into a vast and largely unchecked exercise of government secrecy and the overzealous prosecution of those who breach it. … The judge in the court martial, Colonel Denise Lind, was wise to acquit Private Manning on the most serious charge against him - that he had "aided the enemy". … Aiding the enemy is punishable by death. To convict under this...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>How they see it</title>
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      <description>The honours and accolades proliferated over three years: international peace prizes, solidarity campaigns by celebrities, an effort to designate him - in absentia, of course - as grand marshal of San Francisco's gay pride parade.
All the while, Bradley Manning was imprisoned by the military, branded a traitor by the US government and reviled by many Americans. Some called for his execution for giving troves of classified secrets to WikiLeaks for global distribution.
Few Americans in living...</description>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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      <description>The conviction of Private Bradley Manning on charges of espionage by a US military court is a huge setback to the honourable practices of whistle-blowing and political dissent. Manning, who leveraged his position as an intelligence analyst in the US army in Iraq to let out thousands of classified reports and diplomatic cables to the WikiLeaks organisation, spoke truth to power but suffered persecution dressed up as military justice.
The establishment had decided a priori that he was a "traitor"...</description>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Bradley Manning conviction will inspire others to follow</title>
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      <description>A former US Army intelligence expert who investigated the fallout from the handover of classified files to WikiLeaks by Bradley Manning said no one named in the Afghan war logs had been killed.
The testimony on Wednesday, by retired brigadier general Robert Carr, put a dent in the government's case at the start of the sentencing hearing for Manning, the American soldier convicted of espionage for giving hundreds of thousands of documents to the anti-secrecy website headed by Julian Assange.

On...</description>
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      <description>The successful prosecution of Bradley Manning gives a boost to the Obama administration's aggressive pursuit of people it believes have leaked national security secrets to the media - including Edward Snowden - say US legal scholars.
Army private Manning was acquitted on Tuesday of the most serious charge he faced, aiding the enemy, but was found guilty by a military judge of enough charges to perhaps send him to prison for the rest of his life.
Video: Assange hails Manning as 'quintessential...</description>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 31 Jul 2013 16:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
      <title>Manning conviction shows legal net is closing on whistle-blowers</title>
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      <description>WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Tuesday called US soldier Bradley Manning a “hero” and said he expected him to appeal after a military judge convicted him of espionage.
Assange said the verdict had set a “dangerous precedent” and was an example of “national security extremism” from the Obama administration.
He told journalists at a small press conference in London’s Ecuadorian embassy that he “expects that the case will be appealed”.
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      <description>A US military judge on Tuesday acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.
The judge deliberated for about 16 hours over three days before reaching her decision in a case that drew worldwide attention. Supporters hailed Manning as a whistleblower. The US government called him an...</description>
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      <description>Court-martial prosecutors wrapped up their case on Tuesday against the soldier charged with providing a trove of secret material to WikiLeaks in the biggest leak of classified files in US history.
Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, faces 21 charges, including espionage, computer fraud and, most seriously, aiding the enemy. Manning could face life in prison without parole if convicted.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind allowed the final prosecution witness, Daniel Lewis, a counterintelligence...</description>
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      <description>A video of a US Apache helicopter attack leaked by US Army soldier Bradley Manning revealed sensitive information that could help enemies plan deadlier assaults, according to a Pentagon official’s statement read on Wednesday at the soldier’s court martial.
The cockpit video showed digital display information about the helicopter’s airspeed and angles of engagement, according to Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jon LaRue’s statement that was admitted as evidence.
“Enemies can anticipate US operations and...</description>
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      <description>A comic of Bradley Manning's trial, produced from the court, is being created by artist and WikiLeaks activist Clark Stoeckley and will be published in the autumn.
Stoeckley, who drives a truck carrying the WikiLeaks logo to court in Fort Meade, Maryland, each day, said: "It [the truck] definitely turns heads. My feeling is that if they allow the Fox News truck on base they have to allow me here too, right?"
He is meticulously recording every detail of the trial from the courtroom, drawing and...</description>
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      <description>US Army Private Bradley Manning’s defence team sought on Monday to cast doubt on some of the charges he faces for passing hundreds of thousands of secret government files to WikiLeaks.
At the start of the second week of Manning’s trial, the court heard that one software programme he is said to have illicitly added to his army computer while stationed in Iraq was used by everyone in the intelligence cell where he worked.
The government’s leading computer forensics expert in the case also conceded...</description>
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      <description>The court-martial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier accused of passing US secrets to WikiLeaks in the biggest leak of classified information in US history, continues on Wednesday, when his immediate superiors are due to take the stand.
Manning, a 25-year-old private first class, is charged with providing more than 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks, an anti-secrecy website, in a case that has raised questions about the limits of secrecy and openness in the internet era.
WikiLeaks began exposing the...</description>
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      <description>The American soldier accused of providing more than 700,000 documents to WikiLeaks went on trial yesterday charged with the biggest leak of classified information in US history.
Private First Class Bradley Manning, 25, is an intelligence analyst who faces a possible life sentence without parole if convicted for the 2010 leak that outraged the US government.
Manning sat at the defence table between his lawyers at his court-martial in Maryland, where he faces 21 counts, including the most serious...</description>
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      <description>From a swivel chair and a small desk in a military courtroom in Maryland, Bradley Manning has for more than a year heard government lawyers outline why he should be jailed for life.
By recently admitting he was the source of thousands of secret US diplomatic cables and war logs regarding Afghanistan and Iraq, later published by WikiLeaks, he appears certain to be found guilty at a trial beginning today.
Manning, who faces a possible 154-year jail sentence, has offered to plead guilty to several...</description>
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      <description>Economy and Barry Cheung in the spotlight
Financial Secretary John Tsang Chun-wah will brief the Legislative Council's panel on financial affairs to discuss the city's economic situation in the first quarter and the near-term outlook. Lawmakers will also discuss letters by Civic Party legislators Kwok Ka-ki and Dennis Kwok Wing-hang, and Democratic Party lawmaker Albert Ho Chun-yan on concerns arising from the failed Hong Kong Mercantile Exchange, set up by Barry Cheung Chun-yuen, who quit the...</description>
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      <description>The US government has agreed to destroy all data obtained from a computer and other electronic devices seized from an outspoken advocate of a soldier accused of sending more than 700,000 classified documents to the website Wikileaks, the American Civil Liberties Union announced.
In a legal action, David House accused authorities of violating his constitutional rights when his computer was seized at a Chicago airport in 2010 while returning from abroad.
House is a founding member of The Bradley...</description>
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      <description>I will be there to support her spiritually, as well as physically
Henry Tang Ying-yen on his wife's upcoming court appearance over an unauthorised basement at the family home
 
I believed the public release of these cables would not damage the United States
Private Bradley Manning on the cables he gave to WikiLeaks
 
Nothing will be gained from nuclear … provocations, save for greater isolation and hardship
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      <title>Who said it?</title>
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      <description>The army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history pleaded guilty on Thursday to 10 charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “bloodlust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military prosecutors said they plan to move forward with a court-martial on the 12 remaining charges against Bradley Manning, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.
For the first...</description>
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      <description>A military judge’s ruling on Wednesday tightly limited a US Army private’s ability to argue he had good reasons for allegedly sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks.
Pfc. Bradley Manning can use motive evidence at his June 3 trial only to show that he didn’t know the leaked material would be seen by al-Qaeda, or to seek leniency at sentencing, Colonel Denise Lind ruled during a pretrial hearing. Evidence of motive isn’t relevant to the other...</description>
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      <description>A US judge on Tuesday reduced the potential sentence for WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning by 112 days because of his harsh treatment at a military jail, where he was held in isolation despite advice from psychiatrists.
Judge Denise Lind said the US Army private’s detention conditions were “excessive” and at times illegal, going beyond what was needed to ensure his safety and prevent the risk of suicide.
But the judge rejected a request by defence lawyers to dismiss all charges against Manning...</description>
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Bradley Manning, in his first public comments since his arrest in Iraq, said his isolation led to a rapid decline in his awareness of his surroundings.
He said that he was initially given little or no information about the charges against him.
“My nights were my days...</description>
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      <description>The US Army private facing a court martial for allegedly leaking secret documents to the WikiLeaks website has offered to plead guilty to less serious offences, his lawyer said.
In a blog post, David Coombs, the lawyer for accused WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning, said Manning was not pleading guilty to charges filed against him by military prosecutors. The private faces life imprisonment if convicted of the charges.
Those include stealing records belonging to the United States and wrongfully...</description>
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