Military judge Col. Denise Lind has refused to drop the charge of “aiding the enemy” against Pfc Bradley Manning on the basis of a flimsy case by the prosecution claiming Manning “indirectly” aided al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) by leaking documents.
The ruling is expected to have a chilling effect on whistleblowers, and the threat of being accused of a potentially capital crime for a simple act of conscience was a major argument by the defense against even considering the charge.
Experts say that Lind’s move isn’t particularly surprising, and that it is extremely rare for such charges to get dismissed out of hand. At the same time, they say it is highly unlikely Manning can be found guilty of it, noting the paucity of evidence of actual harm presented by the prosecution.
Col. Morris Davis, one of the key witnesses called by the defense, expressed disappointment toward the ruling, and said the aggressive prosecution of Manning, when contrasted with the prosecution in the 2005 Haditha massacre, saying it suggested the military justice system is “not working.”
Why would she, she is the military judge in uniform working for the USA government and getting paid by the us government , if you think that she is going to stand by and remember her ought, think again.
In reality she is so patriotic that she would add and possibly whisper to prosecutors ears, " is there anything that i can help you guys with, just let me know".
Look: the USA political and social economic ground is breathing and celebrating the Neo fascism, people just don't get it yet, you haven't seen nothing yet wait for the regimes next move, or election when they bring in the Hillary Clinton to perform for you people. US vulture capitalism is based on two social matters 1-militarism 2-Neo fascism and its social politics, which in present time tells the world to watch out, but for Americans is yet to be understood.
If there is something that is working, wake me up.
Unless I have been put on the Prez' Disposition Matrix or have had an unfortunate "car accident"
The very reason that the Founding fathers made treason a matter to go through an Article III Court, in the days of the founding fathers that is the crime ne would have been charged with, and it would have had the safeguards that the founding fathers put in place! For matters like this to have the same executive branch charge, try, and convict, a man is an anathema to Justice and akin to Communist Russia in its heyday! Yes Military Justice is a failure, we see War Crimes known by all and sundry NOT punished and the man who tried to do his Constitutional duty to do so brought before the courts on charges akin to treason!
Truly an Orwellian dictatorship in the US. Manning gets charged with Aiding the Enemy for releasing classified info that may get into the hands of the "enemy", while the Obama admin gets charged with nothing for releasing weapons that DEFINITELY get into the hands of the "enemy", sometimes intentionally.