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| Subject: Innocent Bradley Manning sentenced to 35 years in prison by a biased judge Thu Aug 22, 2013 1:48 am | |
| Fort Meade, Maryland: A court martial sat for just two minutes here on Monday to lock convicted WikiLeaks leaker Bradley Manning up for 35 years – not quite double what his lawyer said he should get and a bit more than half the sentence sought by the Obama administration.
As an army private serving in Iraq Manning was responsible for a leak that by volume is the biggest in US history. And the judge, Army Colonel Denise Lind, gave him a sentence to match – the longest to be delivered for leaks intended to openly reveal information to the American public as opposed to it being passing secretly to a foreign government.
On top of the jail time, she also ordered that Manning, now a first-class private, be demoted to the lowest rank in the military.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/bradley-manning-sentenced-to-35-years-in-prison-20130822-2sc31.html#ixzz2cfr8avVW |
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