Thirty-seven year old hacker Adrian Lamo was found dead this week in his Wichita, Kansas apartment. Lamo is the hacker who turned Bradley Manning in to the FBI for giving hundreds of thousands of sensitive and/or classified materials to Wikileaks.
Lamo also hacked Microsoft and the New York Times and was convicted...
In January, Chelsea Manning announced she filed papers to run for the Senate in Maryland, making her an opponent of Sen. Ben Cardin.
It turns out, Manning may not be eligible to run because “she is on a technical form of unpaid active duty.” This goes against “Department of Defense regulations that...
Glenn Greenwald is in attack mode in support of Chelsea Manning’s run for the Senate in Maryland, with an unintentionally (or not) humorous characterization of the Senate race:
Manning’s opponent in the Democratic Party primary is one of the most standard, banal, typical, privileged and mediocre politicians in the U.S. Congress: Benjamin...
President Donald Trump may receive some competition for most tweet-happy politician! Apparently emoji-filled tweets aren’t enough for Chelsea Manning because she has filed papers to run for the Senate in Maryland. From The Washington Post:
Chelsea Manning, the transgender former Army private who was convicted of passing sensitive government documents to Wikileaks,...
Brianna Wu is a Democrat running for Congress in the 8th District of Massachusetts, in a seat currently held by Democrat Stephen Lynch.
Lynch has caused some upset in progressive circles by being too much of a “lunch-bucket” Democrat, as this article in Commonwealth magazine depicts:
Chelsea Manning, the U.S. Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning, is suing in federal court over allegations that the U.S. Army is delaying her hormone therapy treatment.
Manning, who is currently serving a 35 year prison sentence in Leavenworth, Kansas, alleges that her diagnosed gender dysphoria will cause her mental state...
My first reaction when I saw this on Twitter was, is this a joke? The day after being sentenced to 35 years in prison, this?
Apparently it’s serious. Manning announced on NBC via a letter that he will sue to force the Army to pay for hormone therapy, and presumably a...
Bradley Manning was sentenced by a military judge today to 35 years in prison for releasing classified information to Wikileaks, the largest leak in US history.
BREAKING: #Manning gets 35 years in WikiLeaks case, and will be credited with 1,294 days due to pre-trial confinement.
— RT America (@RT_America) August 21, 2013
The army...
As the defense neared the end of its side in the sentencing phase of Bradley Manning’s trial, the convicted Wikileaker spoke to the court himself today. In an unsworn statement, he began with an apology, saying, “I am sorry that my actions hurt people; I am sorry that they hurt the...
Pfc. Bradley Manning faces up to 136 years (reduced to 90 years max) in prison after
recently being found guilty of charges of espionage and
theft for...
As the sentencing phase in the court martial of Bradley Manning continues, a military judge has ruled that his maximum possible prison sentence will be reduced to 90 years.
From Reuters:
A U.S. military judge reduced potential prison time for Private First Class Bradley Manning to 90 years from 136 years on Tuesday...
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was found not guilty of ‘aiding the enemy’ today, but was found guilty of most of the other 20 offenses for which he was charged. The sentencing phase will begin tomorrow.
From FOX News:
The U.S. Army soldier charged with providing troves of government documents to the whistleblowing website...
A military judge deciding the fate of Wikileaker Bradley Manning will announce her verdict on Tuesday afternoon.
#Breaking: Verdict in alleged Wikileaker Bradley Manning's case will be announced tomorrow at 1 p.m. ET, @ABC confirms
— ABC News (@ABC) July 29, 2013
Army Col. Denise Lind, the judge presiding over the case, has heard arguments...
Bradley Manning will face the charge of “aiding the enemy,” after a military judge ruled today that the charge will not be dropped. Defense attorneys for Manning had earlier filed a motion for this and other charges to be dismissed, while
A Harvard law professor testified Wednesday in the court martial of Bradley Manning that the Army private’s leak of hundreds of thousands of classified materials changed how Wikileaks was viewed by government and media outlets.
From the Albany Times Union:
An Army private’s leak of classified information to WikiLeaks changed how...
The defense will kick off its case Monday morning in the court martial of US Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, who stands accused of leaking more than 700,000 files, many of which included classified information, to Wikileaks. The prosecution rested its case last week in more than 20 counts against...
A judge ruled Monday that a Wikileaks “Most Wanted Leaks” list can be used as evidence in the military trial against Bradley Manning. Prosecutors have contended that the list, as well as several tweets from Wikileaks, would serve in part as proof that Manning’s actions were influenced by the anti-secrecy website...
