BREAKING UPDATE: Manning case judge: 'evidence that US is guilty of excessive secrecy not allowed' [View all]

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BREAKING UPDATE: #Manning case judge: 'evidence that US is guilty of excessive secrecy not allowed' http://bit.ly/143HQMT


Overall story:

http://rt.com/usa/manning-sentence-wikileaks-assange-626/

While on break from the Army, Manning says he called up the Washington Post and claimed to have materials with “enormous value to the American public.” Manning told the judge that he “spoke for 5 minutes about the general nature” of the documents but said, “I do not believe she took me seriously.”

Rejected, Pfc. Manning approached The New York Times, an outlet he described as “the largest and most popular newspaper” in the world. “I left a message saying I had access to information about Iraq and Afghanistan that I thought was very important,” he said.

“I never received a reply from the New York Times,” claimed Manning, even though he left the paper with multiple ways to be reached, including his Skype name.

Believing there were few appropriate conduits for the materials he collected as an intelligence officer, he said WikiLeaks “seemed to be the best medium for publishing this information.”

(Much more at the link.)