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Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Free Bradley Manning!-The Trial Continues

No connection between Manning and Jason Katz, CENTCOM video: trial report, day 5

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Today’s afternoon session revealed more substantive and consequential testimony, so it precedes the morning session here. The defense, via forensic expert David Shaver, established that there was no evidence of a connection between Manning and Jason Katz, and that there is no evidence Manning downloaded a video from the CENTCOM database.
By Nathan Fuller. June 11, 2013.

SSG Matthew Hosburgh. Sketched by Clark Stoeckley, BMSN.

No connection between Jason Katz and Bradley Manning
The live witnesses – as opposed to read-aloud stipulations – in this afternoon’s session discussed the investigation of Jason Katz’s computer, where a Farah video was found that the government believed to be connected to Bradley Manning. The Farah incident was a horrifying massacre on May 4, 2009, in Afghanistan, in which a U.S. airstrike killed scores of innocent Afghan women and children. Katz was fired from the Department of Energy for having password-evading programs.
The video, a version distinct from the one found on Bradley’s computer but matching the one hosted on the U.S. Central Command’s (CENTCOM) website, was encrypted, and investigators found decryption software on Katz’s computer. Adrian Lamo learned about Katz’s possession of the video and also turned him into the authorities. [See Lamo’s and Shaver’s December 2011 testimony on Katz and the video.]
The government wanted to connect Katz and Manning, but today forensic expert David Shaver confirmed that he found no connection whatsoever – no email, chats, or any other connection – between the two.
No proof that Manning downloaded Farah video from CENTCOM
Prosecutors were also unable to establish what they promised they’d prove in their opening statement (pg. 46, lines 11-15),

The evidence will also show that on this work computer was a forensic match of the video charged in specification 11 of charge two, the BE 22 PAX dot zip video was on this computer. And forensic examiners will testify that that video was on the computer on 15 December 2009.

The video file found on Bradley’s computer, under a folder titled ‘Farah,’ was titled TGT1.wmv, and it couldn’t be matched to the charged video, because it was corrupted and couldn’t be viewed.
The TGT1.WMV doesn’t match the name of a file found on CENTCOM’s server, which is the charged video, BE22PAX.zip. That file matches the one found on Jason Katz’s computer, and was encrypted. Katz was known to have decryption software, and the government has tried to tie WikiLeaks’s January 8, 2010, tweet about an encrypted video to Bradley and the Farah incident:

That tweet also predates the only time Bradley is known to have downloaded a Farah video. The defense established that Bradley downloaded the TGT1.wmv video from the T drive – a shared drive among intelligence analysts in his unit, to which he was authorized access – in April 2010. There’s no proof that Bradley downloaded the zip file from CENTCOM, and no proof that he downloaded a Farah video in November 2009 as the government has charged.
This lines up with Bradley’s proposed substitution to the government’s charges and his subsequent plea and statement.
The government has long contended there were two disclosures of a Farah video, in November 2009 (Spec 11 of Charge 2 says between 11/09 and 1/8/10) and April 2010, but it chose to charge him with the earlier disclosure. The defense has contended that there was only one transmission, in April. (See Alexa O’Brien’s transcript of that claim here.)
The prosecution said it had the forensic evidence to prove that contention, but Shaver’s testimony does not support it. He said that data transmission logs show no transfer of the CENTCOM zip file to Bradley’s computer – there was only the transfer from the T drive in April.
Since the prosecution refused to accept Bradley’s plea on that charge with changed dates, he pled not guilty to Specification 11 as charged. Now it can’t go back and charge for the April offense, and thus far they can’t prove the November offense. Perhaps it should’ve charged Jason Katz for that video instead.
Original post, morning session
Yesterday at Ft. Meade, we learned that the government and defense have agreed to 19 new stipulations of expected testimony, but didn’t hear them in court. We heard several of those stipulations today, of Army criminal investigators who collected the charged documents, classification specialists who reviewed whether the documents were properly marked and classified, and from a U.S. Central Command officer who reviewed the classification of the Farah investigation.
The first live witness was Staff Sergeant Matthew Hosburgh, who monitored military networks and evaluated their potential threats and vulnerabilities. He testified largely about his report from a November 2009 conference in Berlin, called Here Be Dragons and hosted by the Chaos Communication Congress. The conference included presentations on net neutrality, hacking, security, and WikiLeaks.
Julian Assange gave the WikiLeaks presentation, attempting to elicit support for and raise awareness about the site’s launch and goals. SSG Hosburgh confirmed that WikiLeaks requested anonymous submissions of classified and sensitive documents withheld by governments and corporations, but that Assange never mentioned or indicated support for terrorists.
In his report, SSG Hosburgh’s noted terrorists’ use of the internet in his summary of the net neutrality presentation but not in the WikiLeaks portion. WikiLeaks, he confirmed, was focused on keeping the public informed, and wasn’t focused on the United States in particular.
Did Manning see Hosburgh’s report?
The prosecution contends Bradley accessed that report (along with the 2008 Counterintelligence special report) but has yet to prove that in court. The government again called Army Special Agent Mark Mander, who reviewed Intelink (the military’s Google) logs to view searches made on Bradley’s computers. He found results for Stf. Sgt. Hosburgh’s report, but as the defense established on cross-examination, he can’t determine if Bradley saved the report, printed it, or even was the one using his computer to view it.
If he did, the report would be relevant to Bradley’s knowledge of WikiLeaks at the time of his release, and therefore whether he “knowingly [gave] intelligence to the enemy.” But that he was the one on that computer, viewing that report, has not been definitively established.
As was established yesterday, there’s similar ambiguity about Bradley’s knowledge of the 2008 Counterintelligence report on WikiLeaks.
Stipulations on Farah investigation testimony
Prosecution lawyer Maj. Ashden Fein read expected testimony from Lt. Commander Thomas Hoskins and retired Lt. Colonel Martin Nehring, who both reviewed war documents, and spoke about the investigation of a massacre in Farah province. Lt. Com. Hoskins determined the war logs were properly classified at the time, while Lt. Col. Nehring explained more about what made them sensitive.
The Significant Activities (SigActs) reported on IED attacks, tactics and procedures for responding to those attacks, casualties, small arms fire, and “sources and methods of intelligence collection.”

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

***WHEN TO BE YOUNG WAS VERY HEAVEN –With THE SIXTIES: YEARS OF HOPE-DAYS OF RAGE In Mind

From The Pen Of Frank Jackman

A while back, actually about five years ago, I was on a tear about various 1960’s movements for social change –the defense of the Cuban Revolution, a revolution witnessed with starry eyes on black and white television directly and with a sense that the fellahin of the world could actually win sometimes, the fight for nuclear disarmament that was extremely pressing as we were in the throes of a hard red scare cold war night, the centrally important black civil rights fight also witnessed on black and white television with the imperative that they needed to win that fight, the struggle against the Vietnam War in America that defined the contours of our battles later in the decade, and the emerging struggles for women’s and gay rights that would gather steam and grow exponentially during the next forty years. I noted that many of those struggles had animated my youth and had also acted as the touch-stone for all my subsequent social and political activism, That swirling time, chaotic in its own way, mistake-ridden in its own way as in any youthful endeavor, produced in its aftermath more questions than answers about the way to go about creating that “newer world” we were all chasing one way or another. Certainly once the swirl died down toward the early 1970s (we can argue, as I have elsewhere, about when that swirl actually ebbed but that is a thought for another time) one was forced to think through what had gone wrong (and a few things right too, no question). Forced to think thorough the how and why of a movement that had turned to dust when just a few years before it had the possibility of turning history on another axis. Ultimately, for a few (too few) of us, also the necessity of thinking about the struggle to change the social organization of American society-the fight for socialism. In short, questions about all the signposts for that part of a political generation, my generation, which in shorthand I will call the “Generation of ’68.”

Let us be clear, nostalgia and the ravages of time on the memory on the part of this writer aside, this was a short but intense period that he believes requires serious study. Militant leftists today face many, if not all, of the social problems that confronted the generation of ’68. While it is entirely possible for today’s militant leftist youth to start fresh and ignore what for all of them is at best a mythical experience- that would be short-sighted. I agree, due to the not unimportant fact of lack of a critical mass of militant leftists who could have assimilated and transmitted those experiences, which a militant movement today could get along without knowing anything about the 1960’s. However, at some point the issues, the conflicts, the struggle for a victorious strategy to fight the monster (otherwise known as American imperialism) will be replayed. Believe me it is never fruitless to learn something from the past.

That said, we are not talking about the working- class 1960’s here, we are not talking about the 1960’s of the mainly middle class parents of the generation of ’68. We are most definitely not talking about the Vietnamese people’s 1960’s. In fact we are not talking about an experience that most of the people during that period experienced except as media events or at the margins. What we are talking about is the youth explosions of the 1960’s, their repercussions, effects and legacies. This is the area of my intimate personal experience and therefore is a good place to start.

In the usual case this writer has spent his time describing and analyzing events that occurred before his time. Things like the American, French and Russian Revolutions. It is therefore with certain amount of pleasant, if not nostalgia, that he can deal with events that made up his youth. All the signposts of my youth have been described and analyzed from the ‘beats’ through Cuba to the civil rights movement and eventually through the struggle against the Vietnam War.

It is always problematic whether the general cultural climate or particular prior events had much influence on what followed later. It is easier to see both influences in hindsight and to over-analyze their importance. Nevertheless one must deal with the trials and tribulations of the ‘beats,’ the rise and mainstream commercialization of the original rock and roll movement and the initial youth culture rebellion through such figures as James Dean, Marlon Brando, the work of Tennessee Williams and other cultural figures. Such figures rather than, let us say, Che Guevara, acted as a catalyst to more away from the mainstream society, to find a safe harbor niche, and not change it. The rise of the counterculture movement bears witness to that effect. It was easy enough to challenge the staid red scare cold war orthodoxy of the 1950’s it was another to have seen a way out. None of these phenomena pretended to or sought to do so.

One gets closer to the core of the influences upon the sixties generation when one discusses the Kennedy Administration, particularly after the Bay of Pigs fiascos. Two issues galvanized youth- the struggle against nuclear war and the struggle for black civil rights. The pretensions of the Kennedy administration to form a liberal society were the legitimate and logical target for the increasing numbers of young who wanted to take the Kennedys at their word- the need to roll up your sleeves and change society. However, the Kennedys did not expect that change to start with them as the targets. The early movement started with that love/hate relationship with the liberal mystique-it never really got resolved then (and still hasn’t today).

The central organizational expression of the student/youth rebellion, especially on the campuses, was Students for Democratic Society (SDS). One can draw a line through the political and organizational ups and downs of SDS accurately and with a certain amount of insight and trace the long curve of the 1960s. With a couple of caveats though- one should not become wedded to the notion that early SDS and its ‘old politicos’ network was something of Golden Age tarnished by the later craziness of Progressive Labor and Weathermen-like interventions that brought about the demise of the organization in 1969. One moreover could not believe that the student movement by itself could have then led the fight for social change as some kind of ‘new class’ to lead a new society. If nothing else the history of the last forty years of campus life has cruelly placed that theory in the shade. Nevertheless read stuff about the period and learn why all those who thoughtfully lived through it would almost all agree that in the 1960’s “to be young was very heaven.”

*In Honor Of Our Class-War Prisoners- Free All The Class-War Prisoners!- Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin,

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Make June Class-War Prisoners Freedom Month

Markin comment (reposted from 2010)

In “surfing” the National Jericho Movement website recently in order to find out more, if possible, about class- war prisoner and 1960s radical, Marilyn Buck [now deceased], whom I had read about in a The Rag Blog post I linked to the Jericho list of class war prisoners. I found Marilyn Buck listed there but also others, some of whose cases, like that of the “voice of the voiceless” Pennsylvania [former] death row prisoner, Mumia Abu-Jamal, are well-known and others who seemingly have languished in obscurity. All of the cases, at least from the information that I could glean from the site, seemed compelling. And all seemed worthy of far more publicity and of a more public fight for their freedom.

That last notion set me to the task at hand. Readers of this space know that I am a long -time supporter of the Partisan Defense Committee, a class struggle, non-sectarian legal and social defense organization which supports class- war prisoners as part of the process of advancing the international working class’ struggle for socialism. In that spirit I am honoring the class war prisoners on the National Jericho Movement list this June as the start of what I hope will be an on-going attempt by all serious leftist militants to do their duty- fighting for freedom for these brothers and sisters. We will fight out our political differences and disagreements as a separate matter. What matters here and now is the old Wobblie (IWW) slogan - An injury to one is an injury to all.

Note: This list, right now, is composed of class-war prisoners held in American detention. If others are likewise incarcerated that are not listed here feel free to leave information on their cases here. Likewise any cases, internationally that may come to your attention. I am sure there are many, many such cases out there. Make this June, and every June, a Class-War Prisoners Freedom Month- Free All Class-War Prisoners Now!

Hands Off Edward Snowden!

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Free Jeremy Hammond

Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government.
In March 2012 Jeremy was arrested in his Chicago home and charged with violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, the same legislation used to prosecute Aaron Swartz. This outdated law, written before the Internet was even created, gives absurdly broad powers to corporations and prosecutors to criminalize an array of online activity and pursue extreme and disproportionate sentences. By contrast, Jeremy’s co-defendants in Ireland will not be prosecuted and in the U.K. none will spend more than 16 months in prison.
Jeremy has been denied bail, cut off from his family, and held in solitary confinement– treatment normally reserved for the most egregious offenses. He did nothing for personal gain and everything in hopes of making the world a better place. He is facing a maximum sentence of ten years, but the minimum is zero. He has been jailed since March 2012 awaiting trial and now sentencing. It’s time for him to come home.

Will you stand with Jeremy? Join us in saying that Jeremy has spent enough time in prison and asking Judge Loretta Preska to give him a sentence of time served.

"I am appalled that Jeremy Hammond is facing a decade in prison for exposing corporate spying. Already, he has been incarcerated since March 2012, held in solitary confinement, and at times has been denied the ability to communicate with his family. Jeremy has done enough time already. Please consider granting him a sentence of time served.”

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Join Jeremy’s Brother in Calling for a Sentence of Time Served

A Brother’s Love

Of the many who love and miss sharing their lives with Jeremy, no one feels his absence more than Jeremy’s twin brother, Jason. Here are some photos he’s shared from the family album.

Jason and Jeremy Hammond by Jeremy Hammond Defense Committee is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License..

*In Honor Of Our Class-War Prisoners- Free All The Class-War Prisoners!- The MOVE Prisoners-Charles Simms Africa, Debbie Sims Africa, Delbert Orr Africa, Edward Goodman Africa, Janet Holloway Africa, Janine Phillips Africa, Michael Davis Africa, William Phillips Africa

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Make June Class-War Prisoners Freedom Month

Markin comment (reposted from 2010)

***From The Boston Bradley Manning Support Committee Archives (September 2012)

RALLY EN APOYO DE WIKILEAKS DENUNCIANTE ALEGA soldado Bradley Manning EN EL CENTRO DE LA CIUDAD DE BOSTON HDQTRS OBAMA.-SEPTEMBER 6, 2012- 2:00 PM

FECHA: Jueves 06 de septiembre 2012

HORA: (. Las personas serán el centro de distribución de panfletos de las 11:00 am y nos quedaremos hasta las 5:00 PM para unirse a nosotros en cualquier momento que podamos para mostrar su solidaridad) PUESTA A LAS 2:00 PM

LUGAR: CENTRO DE BOSTON OBAMA LA SEDE EN LA CALLE DE VERANO 77 (cerca de la parada de Downtown Crossing EN LAS LÍNEAS ROJAS Y NARANJA)

El Boston Smedley Butler Brigada y Samantha capítulo-Veteranos por la Paz, la Red de Apoyo a Bradley Boston Manning, Manning Square Somerville Comité y otros activistas sociales y ciudadanos interesados apoyar el llamamiento de la Red Nacional de Apoyo Bradley Manning y otros, para manifestación nacional en el ámbito local sede Obama el jueves 6 de septiembre de 2012, el día que el presidente Obama está previsto aceptar la nominación del Partido Demócrata del presidente, para pedir la libertad de denunciante WikiLeaks supuesto, el Ejército de soldado de primera clase Bradley Manning. También se pide al presidente a usar su autoridad constitucional de indultar a soldado Manning ahora.

FREE Bradley Manning-PRESIDENTE OBAMA PERDÓN Bradley Manning AHORA!

Visita nuestra página de Facebook-Downtown Boston Bradley Manning Support Rally-06 de septiembre- http://www.facebook.com/BradleyManningSupportRally #! / BradleyManningSupportRallySeptember6th

Trabajo donado llamada a la acción a Obama 2.012 oficinas a nivel nacional 06 de septiembre durante la DNC La Red de Apoyo a Bradley Manning, los afganos por la Paz y Veteranos de Bahía de SF de Irak contra la Guerra de llamada para las acciones de Nationwide en las oficinas locales de la campaña de Obama 06 de septiembre 2012 durante la Convención Nacional Demócrata! Free Bradley Manning!

Desde el arresto de Ejército PFC Bradley Manning en mayo de 2010 por supuestamente compartir las "Asesinato Colateral" video y otras pruebas de crímenes de guerra y la corrupción del gobierno con los sitios web WikiLeaks denunciantes-, progresistas y activistas de derechos humanos han estado preguntando, "¿Por qué no es el presidente Obama interviniendo para ayudar a Bradley? "

Después de todo, fue el presidente Obama quien mayo 2011 declaró con respecto a las protestas en Oriente Medio,

"En el siglo 21, la información es poder, la verdad no puede ocultarse, y la legitimidad de los gobiernos en última instancia dependerá de ciudadanos activos e informados".

El jueves, 16 de agosto de veteranos militares de EE.UU. en Portland OR, CA Oakland y Los Angeles CA, ocuparon las oficinas de campaña de Obama 2012 y enviado por fax una carta de demandas a la oficina central de la campaña de Obama. Esas cartas se inició:

Como aquellos que llevan años sirviendo a nuestro país, tenemos fe en que como Comandante en Jefe, el Presidente Obama haga lo correcto al responder a nuestra petición.

La carta pasó a enumerar las siguientes demandas:

Que el Presidente Obama retractarse y disculparse por declaraciones formuladas en abril de 2011, en la que dijo Bradley Manning "violó la ley." Porque el presidente Obama es el comandante en jefe, se está ante la influencia de comando ilegal, violando el artículo 37 del Código Uniforme de Justicia Militar Justicia (UCMJ), y evita que Bradley reciba un juicio justo.

Ese indulto del presidente Obama la acusó de denuncia, teniendo en cuenta sus 800 días de reclusión preventiva. Naciones Unidas tortura jefe Juan Méndez llama tratamiento de Manning "cruel e inhumano", ya que incluía nueve meses de confinamiento solitario en Quantico a pesar de psiquiatras Brig recomendando condiciones relajadas.

La Red de Apoyo a Bradley Manning mantiene la esperanza de que prevalecerá la justicia y que el presidente Obama puede ser el vehículo del cambio en este tema, pero primero tiene que oír alto y claro de los veteranos y civiles de todo el país que el pueblo estadounidense quiere reparar la ilegalidad la tortura de Bradley Manning, y creo que debe ser liberado.

Los organizadores de las acciones 16 agosto Costa Oeste están instando a otros a que se sumen a un esfuerzo nacional para sostener las acciones en muchas oficinas de campaña de Obama más locales el 6 de septiembre, el día del discurso de aceptación del candidato candidatura. Queremos compartir mensajes de apoyo a Bradley con oficinas de campaña de Obama, de costa a costa.

Por favor, póngase en contacto con emma@bradleymanning.org para más información sobre la asistencia y / o la organización de un evento.

***From The Boston Bradley Manning Support Committee Archives (September 2012)

RALLY DE APOIO ALEGADA WIKILEAKS denunciante Bradley Manning PRIVADO NO centro de Boston OBAMA HDQTRS. –September 6, 2012

DATA: quinta-feira 06 de setembro de 2012

TEMPO: (. Pessoas serão panfletagem no centro de cerca de 11:00 e vamos ficar até cerca de 17:00 para se juntar a nós a qualquer hora que puder para mostrar sua solidariedade) A partir de 02:00

LOCAL: Centro de Boston SEDE DE OBAMA EM RUA 77 DE VERÃO (perto da paragem de Downtown Crossing NA LINHA VERMELHA E LARANJA)

O Boston Smedley Butler Brigada e Samantha Capítulo-Veteranos pela Paz, o Boston Bradley Manning Support Network, Somerville Manning Praça Comitê e outros ativistas sociais e cidadãos preocupados apoiar o apelo pela Rede Nacional de Apoio Bradley Manning e outros em todo o país para reunir na sede Obama locais na quinta-feira 06 de setembro de 2012, o dia o presidente Obama está programado aceitar a nomeação do Partido Democrata do presidente, para pedir a liberdade de denúncia WikiLeaks alegada, Exército soldado de primeira classe Bradley Manning. Também será convidando o presidente a usar sua autoridade constitucional para perdoar Manning privados agora.

GRÁTIS Bradley Manning-PRESIDENTE OBAMA PERDÃO Bradley Manning AGORA!

Confira nossa página do Facebook Downtown Boston Bradley Manning Suporte Rally-06 de setembro- http://www.facebook.com/BradleyManningSupportRally #! / BradleyManningSupportRallySeptember6th

Trabalho doado chamada para a ação em Obama 2.012 escritórios em todo o país 06 de setembro durante DNC O Bradley Manning Support Network, os afegãos Pela Paz e da Baía de SF Veteranos do Iraque Contra a Guerra Chamada para Ações de âmbito nacional em escritórios locais da campanha de Obama 6 de setembro de 2012 durante a Convenção Nacional Democrata! Bradley Manning livre!

Desde a prisão do Exército Bradley Manning PFC maio 2010 por supostamente compartilhando a "Assassinato Colateral" de vídeo e outras evidências de crimes de guerra e corrupção do governo com as WikiLeaks delator site, progressistas e ativistas de direitos humanos foram perguntando: "Por que não é presidente Obama entra para a ajudar Bradley? "

Afinal, foi o presidente Obama que maio 2011 declarou com relação a protestos no Oriente Médio,

"No século 21, a informação é poder, a verdade não pode ser escondida e a legitimidade dos governos vai depender cidadãos ativos e informados."

Na quinta-feira, 16 de agosto de veteranos militares dos EUA em Portland OR, CA Oakland e Los Angeles CA, ocuparam Obama 2.012 escritórios de campanha e enviado por fax uma carta de reivindicações para o escritório central da campanha de Obama. Essas cartas começou:

Como aqueles que passaram anos servindo nosso país, temos fé que, como comandante-em-chefe, o presidente Obama irá fazer a coisa certa em responder a nosso pedido.

A carta passou a listar as seguintes exigências:

Que o presidente Obama retratar e se desculpar por observações feitas em abril de 2011, na qual ele disse Bradley Manning "violou a lei." Como o presidente Obama é o comandante-em-chefe, isso constitui a influência de comando ilegal, violando o artigo 37 do Código Uniforme de militar Justiça (UCMJ), Bradley e impede de receber um julgamento justo.

Que o presidente Obama perdão ao acusado delator, levando em consideração seus 800 dias de confinamento pré-julgamento. Tortura chefe da ONU Juan Mendez chamado de tratamento de Manning "cruel e desumano", já que incluía nove meses de confinamento solitário em Quantico, apesar psiquiatras Brig recomendando condições relaxado.

O Bradley Manning Support Network mantém a esperança de que a justiça vai prevalecer e que o presidente Obama pode ser o veículo de mudança sobre esta questão, mas primeiro ele precisa ouvir alto e claro de veteranos e civis de todo o país que o povo americano quer a reparação para o ilegal a tortura de Bradley Manning, e acredito que ele deve ser libertado.

Organizadores dos 16 ago ações da costa oeste estão agora pedindo outros para se juntar a eles em um esforço nacional para realizar ações em diversos escritórios de campanha mais locais de Obama em 6 de setembro, o dia do candidato discurso de aceitação de nomeação. Queremos compartilhar mensagens de apoio para Bradley, com escritórios de campanha de Obama, de costa a costa.

Entre em contato com emma@bradleymanning.org para mais informações sobre como participar e / ou organizar um evento.

***Pardon Private Bradley Manning Stand-Out-Central Square, Cambridge, Wednesdays, 5:00 PM -Update –Trial Update- June11, 2013

Let’s Redouble Our Efforts To Free Private Bradley Manning-President Obama Pardon Bradley Manning -Make Every Town Square In America (And The World) A Bradley Manning Square From Boston To Berkeley to Berlin-Join Us In Central Square, Cambridge, Ma. For A Stand-Out For Bradley- Wednesdays From 5:00-6:00 PM

Finally the Bradley Manning court-martial has begun and he will now have his day in court. On Saturday June 1 at Fort Meade in Maryland several hundred Bradley Manning supporters rallied in front of the main gate and heard a number of speeches from well-known supporters both before and after a march to a secondary gate down the road. There were a number of other solidarity rallies and events around the country and around the world as BM solidarity week continues. Check the Bradley Manning Support Network for photos and reports about the world-wide rallies. On Saturday June 8^th the Smedley Butler Brigade of VFP and the Boston BM Committee marched in the Boston Pride Parade. Other rallies and demonstrations throughout America and internationally took place as BM solidarity week ended on an upbeat note. Private Bradley Manning does not stand in the court room alone.

On June 3rd the trial started at Fort Meade with many supporters in attendance in the actual court room, or via live stream in an adjacent viewing area or in the post movie theater. 70 media outlets viewed via livestream in another separate adjacent viewing area with additional media viewing in a “media” pit. Prior to the trial a few score of supporters rallied at the main gate from 7:00 to 9:00 AM to show solidarity. Several supporters remained at that gate all day.

The first day of trial started with opening statements by both sides during the morning session. The government presented it argument that Private Manning illegally obtained quantities of classified information while stationed in Iraq and passed it on to Wikileaks. (Private Manning had already admitted to those charges in an open statement in February and stood by that plea when asked by the judge if he continue do so.). The government also argued that Private Manning’s actions aided the enemy and provides indirect material support to terrorism. The defense argued that Private Manning was motivated by his desire to shed light on American atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan and other nefarious actions. In the afternoon session the government began it case by beginning to establish proof of Private Manning’s illegal actions.

Over the past several days governmental witnesses have established “change of custody” of the incriminating evidence and spoken of general regulations on classified information and other such matters. A daily summary by Nathan Fuller from the BM Support Network of the trial’s progress is available on line at http://www.bradleymanning.org/.

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Obviously the most important update today, May 31, 2013, is that Bradley Manning is finally, after over three years of pretrial detention, getting his day in court. In the lead up to that trial date on June1st there will be an international day of solidarity at Fort Meade and around the world to tell Bradley that he does not stand alone, that we have his back. That solidarity is particularly important in political prisoner cases. So plan to go to Fort Meade outside of Washington, D.C. on June 1^st.. If you can’t make it to Fort Meade plan a solidarity event locally in support of this brave whistle-blower. In Boston the solidarity event is at Park Street Station downtown, the historic site of many progressive cause actions at 1:00 PM-Be there to tell Bradley you have his back.

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Stop The Media Blackout of The Bradley Manning Trial

Despite the unprecedented and historic nature of Army whistleblower Bradley Manning’s trial, journalists have thus far been banned from recording the proceedings. Because Americans more commonly get their news through television than from any other media source, this presents a major barrier to the American public staying informed on a trial that will profoundly affect the future of our country.

It’s outrageous that the American public is being denied the right to view the trial of U.S. vs. Bradley Manning. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel was appointed by President Obama to ensure civilian oversight of the U.S. military.

Go To the Bradley Manning Support Network http://www.bradleymanning.org/ and sign the petition to Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel demanding that he ensure journalists can record Bradley Manning’s court martial proceedings! When you sign the petition the network e-mail system will send a message on your behalf to the office of Secretary of Defense.

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Beginning in September 2011, in order to publicize Private Manning’s case locally, there have been weekly stand-outs (as well as other more ad hoc and sporadic events) in various locations in the Greater Boston area starting in Somerville across from the Davis Square Redline MBTA stop on Friday afternoons and later on Wednesdays. Lately this stand-out has been held each week on Wednesdays from 5:00 to 6:00 PM at Central Square, Cambridge, Ma. (small park at the corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street just outside the Redline MBTA stop, renamed Manning Square for the duration of the stand-out) in order to continue to broaden our outreach. Join us there in calling for Private Manning’s freedom. President Obama Pardon Private Manning Now!

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Those who have followed the heroic Wikileaks whistle-blower Private Bradley Manning’s case over the past year or so, since about April 2012 when the pre-trial hearings began in earnest, know that last November the defendant offered to plead guilty to a few lesser included charges in his indictment, basically taking legal and political responsibility for the leaks to WikiLeaks that had been the subject of some of the government’s allegations against him. Without getting into the arcane legal maneuvering on this issue the idea was to cut across the government’s pretty solid case against him being the leaker of information and to have the now scheduled for June trial be focused on the substantive question of whether his actions constituted “material aid to terrorism” and “aiding the enemy” which could subject Private Manning to life in prison. We noted then that we needed to stay with Bradley on this and make sure people know that what he admitted to was that he disclosed information about American military atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan and other diplomatic high crimes and misdemeanors and only that. We also noted that he was, and is, frankly, in trouble, big trouble, and needs our support more than ever. Especially in light of the following:

After enduring nearly three years of detention, at times under torturous conditions, on February 28, 2013 Bradley Manning confessed that he had provided WikiLeakswith a trove of military and diplomatic documents that exposed U.S. imperialist schemes and wartime atrocities. Private Manning’s guilty plea on ten of 22 counts against him could land him in prison for 20 years. A day after Bradley confessed, military prosecutors announced plans to try him on the remaining counts, including “aiding the enemy” and violating the Espionage Act. Trial is expected to begin in early June, now scheduled for June 3^rd.

In exposing the secrecy and lies with which the American government cover their depredations, Bradley Manning performed a great service to workers and oppressed around the world. All who oppose the imperialist barbarity and machinations revealed in the material he provided must join in demanding his immediate freedom. Also crucially important is the defense of Julian Assange against the vendetta by the U.S., Britain and their cohorts, who are attempting to railroad him to prison by one means or another for his role in running WikiLeaks.

In a 35-page statement he read to the military court after entering his plea (written summary available at the Bradley Manning Support Network and an audio transcript as well), Manning told of his journey from nearly being rejected in basic training to becoming an army intelligence analyst. In that capacity he came across mountains of evidence of U.S. duplicity and war crimes. The materials he provided to WikiLeaks included military logs documenting 120,000 civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan and a formal military policy of covering up torture, rape and murder. A quarter-million diplomatic cables address all manner of lethal operations within U.S. client states, from the “drug war” in Mexico to drone strikes in Yemen. He also released files containing assessments of detainees held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. These documents show that the government continued to hold many who, Manning stated, were believed or known to be innocent, as well as “low level foot soldiers that did not have useful intelligence.”

The Pentagon and the Obama Administration declared war against WikiLeaks following the release of a video, now entitled Collateral Murder and widely available, conveyed by Manning, of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter airstrike in Iraq that killed at least 12 people, including two Reuters journalists. American forces are then shown firing on a van that pulled up to help the victims. Manning said he was most alarmed by the“bloodlust they appeared to have.” He described how instead of calling for medical attention for a seriously wounded individual trying to crawl to safety, an aerial crew team member “asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage.”

By January 2010, Manning said, he“began to become depressed with the situation that we found ourselves increasingly mired in year after year” and decided to make public many of the documents he had backed up as part of his work as an analyst. Manning first offered the materials to the Washington Post and the New York Times. Not getting anywhere with these pillars of the press establishment, the latter apparently not considering war crimes of its government, as opposed to all manner of foreign state activities, news fit to print in February 2010 he made his first submission to WikiLeaks. He attached a note advising that “this is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day.”

The charge of “aiding the enemy”—i.e., Al Qaeda—is especially ominous. This used to mean things like military sabotage and handing over information on troop movements to a battlefield enemy. In Manning’s case, the prosecution claims that the very act of publicizing U.S. military and diplomatic activities, some of which took place years before, amounted to “indirect” communication with Al Qaeda. Manning told the court that he believed that public access to the information “could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general.” He hoped that this “might cause society to reevaluate the need or even the desire to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the affected environment every day.” But by the lights of the imperialists’ war on terror, any exposure of their depredations can be construed as support to the “terrorist”enemy, whoever that might be.

The Pentagon intends to call no fewer than 141 witnesses in its show trial, including four people to testify anonymously. One of them, designated as “John Doe,” is believed to be a Navy SEAL who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. “Doe” is alleged to have grabbed three disks from bin Laden’s Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound on which was stored four files’ worth of the WikiLeaks material provided by Manning.

Nor do charges under the Espionage Act have to have anything to do with actual spying. The law was one of an array of measures adopted to criminalize antiwar activity after U.S. imperialism’s entry into the First World War. It mandated imprisonment for any act deemed to interfere with the recruitment of troops. Among its first and most prominent victims was Socialist Party spokesman Eugene V. Debs, who was jailed for a June 1918 speech at a workers’ rally in Canton, Ohio, where he denounced the war as capitalist slaughter and paid tribute to the leaders of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. Dozens of Industrial Workers of the World organizers were also thrown into prison.

In the early 1970s, the Nixon government tried, unsuccessfully, to use this law to go after Daniel Ellsberg, whose release of the Pentagon Papers to the New York Times shed light on the history of U.S. imperialism’s losing war against the Vietnamese workers and peasants. Obama has happily picked up Nixon’s mantle. Manning’s prosecution will be the sixth time the Obama administration has used the Espionage Act against the source of an unauthorized leak of classified information—more than the combined total under all prior administrations since the law’s enactment in 1917.

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The Private Bradley Manning case is headed toward an early summer trial. The news on his case over the past several months has centered on the many pre-trial motion hearings including defense motions to dismiss for lack of speedy trial. Private Manning’s pre-trial confinement is now well over 1000 days. That dismissal motion was ruled on by Military Judge Lind. On February 26, 2013 she denied the defense’s motion for dismissal, the last serious chance for Bradley Manning to go free before the scheduled June trial. She ruled furthermore that the various delays by the government were inherent in the nature of this case and that the military authorities, except in one short instance, had been diligent in their efforts to move the proceedings along. For those of us with military experience this is a classic, if perverse, case of that old army slogan-“Hurry up, and wait.” This is definitely tough news for Private Manning although perhaps a good appeal point in some future civilian court review.

The defense had contended that the charges should be dismissed because the military by its own statutes (to speak nothing of that funny old constitutional right to a speedy trial guarantee that our plebeian forbears fought tooth and nail for against the bloody British and later made damn sure was included in the Amendments when the founding fathers“forgot” to include it in the main document) should have arraigned Private Manning within 120 days after his arrest. They hemmed and hawed for almost 600 days before deciding on the charges and a court martial. Nobody in the convening authority, as required by those same statutes, pushed the prosecution forward in a timely manner. In fact the court-martial convening authority, in the person of one Colonel Coffman, seemed to have seen his role as mere “yes man” to each of the government’s eight requests for delays without explanation. Apparently the Colonel saw his role as a mere clearing agent for whatever excuse the government gave, mainly endless addition time for clearing various classified documents a process that need not have held up the proceedings. The defense made timely objection to each governmental request to no avail.

Testimony from military authorities at pre-trial hearings in November 2012 about the reasons for the lack of action ranged from the lame to the absurd (mainly negative responses to knowledge about why some additional delays were necessary. One “reason” sticks out as a reason for excusable delay -some officer needed to get his son to a swimming meet and was thus “unavailable” for a couple of days. I didn’t make this up. I don’t have that sense of the absurd. Jesus, a man was rotting in Obama’s jails and they let him rot because of some damn swim meet). The prosecution, obviously, argued that the government has moved might and main to move the case along and had merely waited until all leaked materials had been determined before proceeding. The judge saw it the government’s way and ruled according as noted above.

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The defense had also pursued a motion for a dismissal of the major charges (espionage/ indirect material aid to terrorists) on the basis of the minimal effect of any leaks on national security issues as against Private Manning’s claim that such knowledge was important to the public square (freedom of information issues important for us as well in order to know about what the hell the government is doing either in front of us, or behind our backs). Last summer (2012) witnesses from an alphabet soup list of government agencies (CIA, FBI, NSA, Military Intelligence, etc., etc.) testified that while the information leaked shouldn’t have been leaked that the effect on national security was de minimus. The Secretary of Defense at the time, Leon Panetta, also made a public statement to that effect. The prosecution argued, successfully at the time, that the mere fact of the leak of classified information caused irreparable harm to national security issues and Private Manning’s intent, even if noble, was not at issue.

The recent thrust of the motion to dismiss has centered on the defense’s contention that Private Manning consciously and carefully screened any material in his possession to avoid any conflict with national security and that most of the released material had been over-classified (received higher security level than necessary). Much of the materials leaked, as per those parts published widely in the aftermath of the disclosures by the New York Times and other major outlets, concerned reports of atrocities in Iraq and Afghanistan and diplomatic interchanges that reflected poorly on that profession. The Obama government has argued again that the mere fact of leaking was all that mattered. That motion has also not been fully ruled on and is now the subject of prosecution counter- motions and has been a cause for further trial delay.

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A defense motion for dismissal based on serious allegations of torturous behavior by the military authorities extending far up the chain of command (a three-star Army general, not the normal concern of someone so far up the chain in the matter of discipline for enlisted personal) while Private Manning was first detained in Kuwait and later at the Quantico Marine brig for about a year ending in April 2011 has now been ruled on. In late November and early December Private Manning himself, as well as others including senior military mental health workers, took the stand to detail those abuses over several days. Most important to the defense was the testimony by qualified military mental health professionals citing the constant willful failure of those who held Private Manning in close confinement to listen to, or act, on their recommendations during those periods

Judge Lind, the military judge who has heard all the pre-trial arguments in the case thus far, has essentially ruled unfavorably on that motion to dismiss given the potential life sentence Private Manning faces. As she announced at an early January pre-trial hearing the military acted illegally in some of its actions. While every Bradley Manning supporter should be heartened by the fact that the military judge ruled that he was subject to illegal behavior by the military during his pre-trial confinement her remedy, a 112 days reduction in any future sentence, is a mere slap on the wrist to the military authorities. No dismissal or, alternatively, no appropriate reduction (the asked for ten to one ratio for all his first year or so of illegal close confinement which would take years off any potential sentence) given the seriousness of the illegal behavior as the defense tirelessly argued for. And the result is a heavy-handed deterrent to any future military whistleblowers, who already are under enormous pressures to remain silent as a matter of course while in uniform, and others who seek to put the hard facts of future American military atrocities before the public.

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An important statement in November 2012 was issued by three Nobel Peace Laureates (including Bishop Tutu from South Africa) calling on their fellow laureate, United States President Barack Obama, to free Private Manning from his jails. (Available on the Support Bradley Manning Network website.)

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On February 23, 2013, the 1000th day of Private Bradley Manning’s pre-trial confinement, an international day of solidarity was observed with over seventy stand-outs and other demonstration held in America and internationally. Bradley Manning and his courageous stand have not been forgotten. Go to the Bradley Manning Support Network for more details about the events of that day. Another international day of solidarity is scheduled for June 1, 2013 at Fort Meade, Maryland and elsewhere just before the scheduled start of his trial on June 3rd. Check the support network for updates on that event as well.

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6 Ways To Support Heroic Wikileaks Whistle-Blower Private Bradley Manning

*Sign the online petition at the Bradley Manning Support Network (for link go to http://www.bradleymanning.org/ ) addressed to the Secretary of the Army to drop all the charges and free Bradley Manning-1100 plus days are enough! Join the over 30,000 supporters in the United States and throughout the world clamoring for Bradley’s well-deserved freedom.

*The government is now prosecuting Bradley for the major charges of “aiding the enemy” (Espionage Act) and “material aid to terrorism.” Everyone should contact the presiding officer of the court –martial process, General Linnington, at 1-202-685-2807 and tell him to drop those charges. Once Maj. Gen. Linnington’s voicemail box is full – you can also leave a message at the DOD: (703) 571-3343 – press “5″ to leave a comment.*If this mailbox is also full, leave the Department of Defense a written message. Do it today.

*Come to our stand-out in support of Private Bradley Manning in Central Square, Cambridge, Ma. (corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Prospect Street near MBTA Redline station) every Wednesday between 5-6 PM.

*Contribute to the Bradley Manning Defense Fund- now that the trial has started funds are urgently needed! The hard fact of the American legal system is the more funds available the better the defense, especially in political prisoner cases like Bradley’s. The government has unlimited financial and personnel resources to prosecute Bradley. And has used them. So help out with whatever you can spare. For link go to http://www.bradleymanning.org/

*Call (Comments”202-456-1111), write The White House, 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20500, e-mail-(http://www.whitehouse.gov’contact/submitquestions-and comments) the White House to demand President Obama pardon Bradley Manning.

*Write letters of solidarity to Bradley Manning while he is being tried. Bradley’s mailing address: Commander, HHC, USAG, Attn: PFC Bradley Manning, 239 Sheridan Avenue, Bldg. 417, JBM-HH, VA 22211. Bradley Manning cannot receive stamps or money in any form. Photos must be on copy paper. Along with “contraband,” “inflammatory material” is not allowed. Six page maximum. Mail sent to the above address is forwarded to Bradley.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Programs that Bradley Manning used weren’t prohibited: trial report, day 4

By Nathan Fuller, Bradley Manning Support Network. June 10, 2013.

Chad Madaras. Sketch by Clark Stoeckley, BMSN.

The second week of Bradley Manning’s court martial began with forensics experts returning, testimony from someone who shared Bradley’s computer, and updates on stipulations of expected testimony, but that all came after more questions about media access.
Stenographers deserve trial access
Judge Denise Lind received a motion from a third-party to allow for the Freedom of the Press Foundation’s crowd-funded stenographers to be credentialed for the media center at Ft. Meade, to provide an unofficial transcript of the proceedings. Judge Lind wouldn’t rule on the motion since it didn’t come from the defense or government, but defense lawyer David Coombs stood briefly to support it. He said the motion assists Bradley’s Sixth Amendment right to a public trial and the First Amendment right to a free press.
Forensic expert: Wget not explicitly prohibited
David Shaver, head of forensic investigations for the Army Criminal Investigations Unit, has been called a few times and will likely be called back frequently to discuss the investigation of Bradley’s computer. He testified today about his review of Bradley’s searches on Intelink, the military’s secure version of Google.
Shaver testified about Bradley’s searches for ‘WikiLeaks,’ which started on December 1, 2009, and for ‘Julian Assange’ and ‘Iceland.’ A few times, his searches for WikiLeaks brought him to the Army’s 2008 Counterintelligence Special Report, but Shaver could only confirm that he successfully reached that report once.
He also talked about the program Wget, which automates downloading from the internet. Shaver said the program wasn’t specifically authorized with a Certificate of Net Worthiness (CON), but that it wasn’t prohibited either, and not having a CON didn’t mean it wasn’t allowed.
Fellow analyst: mIRC chat, other programs not prohibited
Chad Madaras was in the 2^nd Brigrade 10^th Mountain division along with Bradley Manning, so they were together in Ft. Drum before deploying and then together in FOB Hammer in Iraq. In Baghdad, they worked in the same unit and used the same computer but on opposite shifts: Bradley worked at night, Chad during the day.
Their shared computer was frequently slow and required ‘reimaging’ – wiping the computer fully and starting over new – multiple times. Therefore, analysts were expected to save files to CDs or to a shared drive to prevent losing any data.
Madaras testified that everyone else in their Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) used mIRC, a chat program Bradley said he used. Madaras also confirmed that music, movies, and video games were on the shared drive that all analysts could access. They weren’t explicitly allowed, but they weren’t banned either. This lends itself to the question of whether Bradley “exceeded authorized access” – the government contends he added programs that he wasn’t allowed to have.
He also confirmed that it wasn’t prohibited to explore the SIPRNet, the Secret-level, military-wide internet, for other regions of the world beyond mission scope. Bradley perused the State Department diplomatic database, and while others may not have done so, it hasn’t been established that this was a violation.
Stipulations continue
We also heard the stipulations of expected testimony from of Steve Buchanan, an NSA contractor who confirmed some basic facts about Intelink, which Shaver delved into further.
The defense and government took a two-hour lunch break to continue working on more stipulations. The military’s subject matter expert tells us that twelve stipulations have been agreed to, eight more are under negotiation, and several more may be on the way.
Afternoon session
Update: 7:00, summary of afternoon session
Tweets on trial
After nearly a three-and-a-half hour lunch break, Army CID Special Agent Mark Mander testified about his contribution in the investigation of Bradley Manning, which he called “probably one of the largest and most complicated investigations we’ve ever had.”
Mander said he used Archive.org to find a 2009 version of WikiLeaks.org that allegedly shows a ‘Most Wanted Leaks’ list of desired documents, and used Google Cache to retrieve WikiLeaks’ 2010 tweets asking for ‘.mil addresses’ and for ‘super computer time’ upon receipt of an encrypted video. The prosecution wants to authenticate these documents as relevant to Bradley’s mindset at the time of the 2010 disclosures.
But the defense established that Mander has no personal knowledge of how Archive.org or Google Cache works, whether either had been hacked, whether tweets can be deleted, or whether Bradley had viewed those pages and tweets at that time.
The defense also presented an alternate version of the ‘Most Wanted Leaks’ page, which was similar but which introduced the list as the concealed documents most sought after by journalists, lawyers, police, and human rights investigators. Judge Lind accepted both versions as evidentiary exhibits.
Sheila Glenn: Army Counterintel couldn’t confirm that enemies used WikiLeaks
Ft. Meade’s Sheila Glenn works on Army cyber counterintelligence, and she testified about the 2008 Army Counterintelligence Special Report, which she reviewed and which speculated whether foreign intelligence services or terrorist groups used or could use WikiLeaks.org to gather U.S. defense information.
She mostly confirmed important elements of the report. She read aloud,
some argue, Wikileaks.org is knowingly encouraging criminal activities such as the theft of data, documents, proprietary information, and intellectual property, possible violation of national security laws regarding sedition and espionage, and possible violation of civil laws. Within the United States and foreign countries the alleged ―whistleblowers‖ are, in effect, wittingly violating laws and conditions of employment and thus may not qualify as ―whistleblowers protected from disciplinary action or retaliation for reporting wrongdoing in countries that have such laws.
She confirmed,
Wikileaks.org supports the US Supreme Court ruling regarding the unauthorized release of the Pentagon Papers by Daniel Ellsberg, which stated that ―only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government.
A primary point of contention regarded ‘intelligence gaps,’ a subsection of the report under which it’s asked,
Will the Wikileaks.org Web site be used by FISS, foreign military services, foreign insurgents, or terrorist groups to collect sensitive or classified US Army information posted to the Wikileaks.org Web site?
Glenn testified that intelligence gaps could fall within a range of certainty, from points of knowledge that the Army wanted to confirm, to subjects about which it knows very little. At the time, she said, Army Counterintelligence could not confirm that foreign intelligence services, adversaries, or terrorist groups did collect information from WikiLeaks.org.
This week
Remaining on the list of upcoming witnesses is Matthew Hosburgh, an intelligence analyst, who’ll testify about a ‘computer chaos club’ document; Ken Moser from CENTCOM who’ll about the Farah investigation; and Chief Warrant Officer 5 Jon Larue.