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...
Military Judge Col. Denise Lind ruled Friday that two tweets posted by Wikileaks can be permitted as evidence in the case against Army Private First Class Bradley Manning.
From FOX News:
A military judge has ruled that prosecutors can introduce tweets suggesting an Army private took his cues from WikiLeaks in disclosing...
The military trial of Private First Class Bradley Manning resumes today at Fort Meade in Maryland. Manning stands accused of charges that include violation of the Espionage Act and aiding the enemy for his actions in releasing a trove of classified files to the anti-secrecy website Wikileaks. The court recessed last...
The military trial in the case of Wikileaker Bradley Manning continued earlier this week. An interesting legal point in the case has arisen, as Manning’s defense lawyers pushed back against tweets that the prosecution wanted introduced as evidence.
Allow me first to provide a little bit of background on why the tweets...
Day three in the military trial of Bradley Manning continued today, with testimony from the accused Wikileaker’s former Army supervisor and an Army specialist who was Manning’s team leader at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq.
Some of the testimony focused on Private First Class Manning’s access to and knowledge of his...
