June 4, 2013

Bradley Manning WikiLeaks trial 'dangerous' for civil liberties

ExpertsThe trial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier who leaked a trove of state secrets to WikiLeaks, could set an ominous precedent that will chill freedom of speech and turn the internet into a danger zone, legal experts have warned.

Of the 21 counts faced by the Army private on Monday, at his trial at Fort Meade in Maryland, by far the most serious is that he knowingly gave intelligence information to al-Qaida by transmitting hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the open information website WikiLeaks.  Bradley Manning trial 'dangerous' for civil liberties – experts

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