The prosecution’s repeatedly botched handling of the disclosure phase of the Bradley Manning trial led to calls by the defense to dismiss the case entirely, and while that hasn’t happened the judge seems to be taking the matter increasingly seriously.
Judge Denise Lind gave the prosecution one month to hand over all reports related to the WikiLeaks impact on national security and, for good measure, ordered them to provide a detailed account of how they are (or aren’t) meeting their obligations on disclosure.
The prosecution had originally sought to avoid handing over any documents relating to their claim that Manning caused harm to national security, saying that the evidence was “confidential” and couldn’t be given to the defense.
This was of course only one in a long series of failures to produce evidence by the prosecution, some blamed on clerical errors but most ending with a flat assertion that the evidence was “classified.”
Let this man and all other US political prisoners go, they have done nothing but providing the truth about how the US government and its militarism regime operates, there is no law prohibiting people saying the truth unless the truth becomes unbearable and uncomfortable to those who commit the crime.
In our country the lie has become not just a moral category but a pillar of the State.
Alexsander Solzhenitzyn
This Judge Knows that this case will be OFF to the US Supreme Court and is making sure that the is have been dotted and the ts crossed!
The best of all possible outcomes I believe to be for the case to be dismissed and for Banning to win millions in a civil action.
I can just hear the judge talking to friends about the government´s case; “What a bunch of unbelievably belligerent idiots.”
This is a military court, right? '
Even there 'justis' has to be sort of seen to be done so that the 'nation' can feel good about convicting the arch-traitor Manning. He has already been convicted in the court of pubic opinion but we wouldn't want anything 'hopping around' at sentencing. The world is watching, although it's none of their effin' business.