{"id":29698,"date":"2012-04-26T21:09:57","date_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29698"},"modified":"2012-04-26T21:45:16","modified_gmt":"2012-04-27T01:45:16","slug":"the-court-will-not-throw-out-charges-againts-pfc-bradley-manning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29698","title":{"rendered":"The court will not throw out charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that he had asked that all of the charges be thrown out. Needless to say that motion was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/wikileaks\/9230397\/WikiLeaks-court-presses-ahead-with-aiding-the-enemy-charge-against-Bradley-Manning.html\">rejected.<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The defense motion to dismiss &#8230; is denied,&#8221; military Judge Colonel Denise Lind said in a pretrial hearing, adding that if prosecutors could not prove in the trial phase that Manning knew intelligence given to WikiLeaks would reach enemy hands, the court would &#8220;provide appropriate motions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Manning&#8217;s attorney, David Coombs, had pressed the court to dismiss the charge. <\/p>\n<p>Comparing Manning&#8217;s actions to that of a soldier speaking to a major newspaper, he argued that without an intent to provide information to the enemy, Manning&#8217;s actions constituted at most negligence.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling was another blow for Manning, who made several appeals over three days of pretrial hearings this week to reduce or dismiss all 22 charges against him. Those motions were all rejected.\n <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I would like to know why he is wearing new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.1310news.com\/news\/world\/article\/355293--military-judge-refuses-to-throw-out-gi-s-wikileaks-case-weighs-dismissal-of-some-charges\">ASUs<\/a>? Is this some kind of plan of making him look better in the court? Or the fact that he has only five ribbions and he cannot get them in right order? <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nManning&#8217;s alleged motive, as he stated in his online chat logs with a confidant-turned-informant, was &#8220;I want people to see the truth.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yea, I really doubt that. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that he had asked that all of the charges be thrown out. Needless to &hellip; <a title=\"The court will not throw out charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29698\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The court will not throw out charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":610,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-antiwar-crowd","category-shitbags"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/610"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}