careful in what kind of information you release and i think that bradley manning should be commended for n. new to the iraq war ok david here the specialist manning has ended the iraq war i would venture to say that we haven't seen the end of the iraq war certainly the civil war and civil strife that's going on there to agree but i think that your point is well taken one sense but i totally disagree with you i think bradley specialist manning was basically used as a do by wiki leaks and i think that they took advantage of him i don't think he had the expertise in terms of being able to decide nor did he have the authority to decide to release hundreds of thousands of pages of communiques of the united states he simply didn't have that we're going to see a war crime you don't have to say this is good and this is not ok but sorry if you would be ok i believe it when you go ahead go ahead go ahead. david when you witness a war crime you don't need expertise to show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the c

soldier since the vietnam war bradley manning was held in maximum security solitary confinement in a cell his attorney says was no bigger than six by eight feet and as the number of charges grew against manning to twenty two he was allowed to plead guilty to ten lesser charges this in exchange for a maximum sentence of sixteen years now by december two thousand and twelve when he took the stand to testify about the conditions that he endured he had been in confinement for more than one thousand days now the freedom of the press foundation broke court perscribe rules it released bradley manning's explanation of his action in his own words to the public today june third bradley manning's court martial will pursue the remaining more serious charges including aiding the enemy judging by what manning has already said that or a prisoner of a maximum security facility and a hostage to your conscience of course the question of whether the young man will spend the rest of his life in prison will be answered at this trial. we leak spokesman kristinn hrafnsson told me earlier that the clampdown

bradley manning."aintiff in a lawsuit brought by the center for constitutional rights that challenges government secrecy in manning's court martial, as by the way, is democracy now! kevin, and welcome back. explain exactly what is happening at the trial. it was very unclear what would happen for the journalists, for how this trial will be covered. >> i expect we will have some sort of opening arguments that will have any sort of housekeeping issues that have to be dealt with before they can really proceed with the trial. what i can tell you about the media, having just come in, there happens to be an overwhelming amount of media. i don't think the military were prepared to handle as many cars as were coming, even though they granted 70 requests in the number was there were about 350 or so requests that were put into the military for credentials. you have had people turned away and denied access and portly, for the issue of the media, yet the story of this crowd funded court reporter or stenographer, th

your idea of what a card should be. ♪ ♪ >> i am bradley manning. >> i am bradley manning. >> bradley ing. >> now what to do about this? >> if you know nothing about bradley manning, you should help me bust him out of jail. >> jon: that is new video, their support of army private bradley manning on aiding and abetting the enemy after releasing hundreds of thousands of documents to wikileaks the website founded by julian assange who commented the u.s. government is out to set a precedent. if you communicate with the journalist and you communicate with publisher and then you communicate with the public and then you communicate with al-qaeda. so you communicate with enemies of the united states and as a result, your communication west side journalist must be punished by death or life inprison. what do you think 6 his logic chain there? >> as much as it pains me to say this, we have to distinguish between bradley manning who was a soldier who got 250,000 cables. you have to assume all of them were embarrassing to the government and julian assange who was a publisher had right to publisher.

the military trollop army whistleblower bradley manning is under way. e is accused of providing more than 700,000 secret u.s. current documents and cables to wikileaks. it is the largest disclosure of state secrets in u.s. history. manning faces more than 20 charges, including violating the espionage act and aiding the enemy. he has pled guilty to misusing classified material. the trial began monday with the defense and prosecution with starkly contrasting accounts. manning's defense lawyer david coombs said manning wanted to the documents saying -- >>, prosecutor capt. joe morrow aiding in the manning of the enemy including osama bin laden who allegedly accessed some of classified state document cables after the were published by the website wikileaks. morrow said -- he responded -- coombs responded by saying -- the trial is expected to run to the end of august. supporters of bradley manning gathered outside as the trial opened. >> bradley manning did a very courageous thing. he tell the american people and the world about what was going on in afghanist

but little by little one protest with a handful of people turned into the bradley manning support network and that turned into an entire movement we've seen the traffic on our website pick up a lot. jim the first day of bradley's trial we had forty thousand unique visitors to our website and we're seeing more in mel's more people contacting about how they can donate and how they can attend the trial the support for this week the leader has taken many forms from signs and stickers to t. shirts and petitions and we've organized hundreds of events around the world and we've had tens of thousands of people sign petitions and we've also gained a number of celebrities supporting he was nominated for a nobel peace prize by icelandic impede their gaeta jones doty or for shedding light on american military wrongdoings in iraq there has even been a graphic novel created detailing the events of the trial cartoonist claire. stokley has been sitting in the courtroom every day since the trial began using his pen to capture the emotions of the people documenting history with his sketches the story needs

he released and i think that bradley manning should be commended for anyone to the iraq war ok david here the specialist manning has and the iraq war i would venture to say that we haven't seen the end of the iraq war certainly the civil war and civil strife that's going on there to agree but i think that your point is well taken one sense but i totally disagree with you i think bradley specialist manning was basically use of the duped by wiki leaks and i think that they took advantage of him i don't think he had the expertise in terms of being able to decide nor did he have the authority to decide to release hundreds of thousands of pages of communiques of the united states he simply didn't have that when you see a war crime you don't have to say this is good in this is not ok but sorry if you want to be ok i believe it when you go ahead go ahead go ahead. david when you witness a war crime you don't need expertise to show that there was a war crime committed when he revealed the thing that really angered this ministration when he revealed the collateral damage video that showed a r

army private bradley manning bringing back to life the issues his case represents but as millions around the world watch this trial evolve new attention will be paid to the other man who defines the story joining us on the founder of wiki leaks and the person who made it possible for manning to release the scores of documents these events and the relationship between these two men are now documented a new film called we steal secrets the story of wiki leaks here's a sneak peek. into government's got more information. systems and student. was this. in confidence and said hey i'm teaching secrets. lancers and the release of these documents are potentially severe and dangerous scare the hell out of a lot of people how are we going to stop it and how far is it gone already the sort of aging student who is a rock stuff and you've done some things in computers the weather you know the professor steve being trained in advice you take digs for this idealistic am something else incredible that this. documentary is now stirring up a lot of controversy among freedom of information advocates who say

accused of orchestrating the biggest national security leak in the nation's history yesterday, bradley manningod trial at a military court in fort mead, maryland. his lawyer portrayed manning as a humanist who wanted to make the world a better place, telling the court his client was young, a little naive, but good-intentioned in that he was selecting information that he thought would make a difference. the government seeking a life sentence for a man accused of aiding the enemy. disagreed. in the words of prosecutor captain joe morrow, this is a case about a soldier who systemically harvested hundreds of thousands of classified documents and dumped them on to the internet in the hands of the enemy, material he knew, based on his training would put the lives of fellow soldiers at risk. at a pretrial hearing in february, manning, now 25, admitted to providing over 700,000 afghan and iraq war documents and state department cables to the wikileaks website while stationed as an army intelligence analyst in iraq. manning pleaded guilty to ten of the lesser 22 charges leveled against him. those charg

ok david just going is bradley manning high from this. if i may if i may i think that you have to distinguish this case from what you've referenced earlier about people disclosing expense accounts or something like this we're talking about very very high love a communique i think you have to distinguish between the merits of disclose your versus the merits of doing your job as a specialist to protect the interests of the game at a high level during the games that embarrass the government well exactly david most of these were just saying we were just to various thing. should someone go to life imprisonment or embarrassment go ahead david. well. i don't think that that's what specialist manning is going to go to jail for specialist manning is going to go to jail for violating his contract with the united states his representation of the united states as an army so we're drawn to that what he's going to jail for and and certainly he put people at risk in fact wiki leaks redacted much of the information that specialist manning put out there a

what bradley manning searched for in terms of the information that is this weekend we also heard from another analyst. a man by the name of david shaver he is a special agent for the computer crimes investigative unit he provided some more parental canalis says he was able to verify that they were in searches did in fact happen he says that bradley manning searched the terms of wiki leaks a sauna and iceland those specific terms back in december of two thousand and nine so today mostly mostly details in regards to evidence computer based forensic evidence and as i understand it lives they were supposed to talk about examining a certain video today that showed the deaths of twenty six civilians in afghanistan did you hear anything about that today. that did not happen today they did go on recess at two pm a very lengthy recess they said it was they went on recess excuse me at that news were supposed to resume back at two pm didn't resume back until two forty five up until that point that we went on recess it was mostly all talking about a computer forensic analysis they did not discuss

as today marked the second day in the court-martial of private first class bradley manning. mr. manning faces 22 charges stemming from the alleged release of over 700,000 documents to the web site wikileaks with the most serious charge being aiding the enemy which could carry a sentence of life without parole. and while protestors feel that mr. manning has been subjected to overly harsh treatment already, prosecutors have previously rejected a plea offer that would see manning admit guilt to lesser charges and serve 20 years in prison in order to pursue the more severe charges. we're joined via skype by alexa o'brien who has been covering wikileaks since january of 2011. thank you for your time this evening. >> thank you. >> john: what a pleasure. you have been at the court-martial since it started yesterday. what's the mood like in the room and what sense do you get if any of private manning's state? >> private manning is quite poised in the courtroom. he rarely speaks and when he does speak what comes across is a very young and earnest soldier who sort of is caught up in this r

more on this i'm not joined by author kevin koe stone he's written extensively on the case is a bradley manning and we keep leaks kevin it looks like manning's core supporters all over the world do you think it has potential of growing support for him if he does get a heavy sentence well we don't know what he's going to be sentenced yet so i wouldn't put it in that way i would i would suggest that as people follow the trial over the course of this entire summer as it's going to last that there will be more exposure of his story that more around the world will be introduced to what he did his act and are likely to it will resonate with people now the prosecution is playing on that dangers of leaked information getting into his hands what he did was leaked sensitive highly classified information how dangerous was that leak for u.s. security i haven't seen any proof that it was dangerous to u.s. security yet nor do i expect to see it for two reasons one if they do present any proof it's probably going to be behind closed door. as it will be classified information a but also from listening to bradl

of coverage of bradley manning. who they called a traitor and a terrorist the same organization carried out a similar denial of service attack in august last year when the wiki leaks founder launched his exclusive interview program right here on our save. part now with this video right here of iraqi soul excuse me american soldiers are shooting civilians children among them as well it's become infamous bradley manning's leaks contain plenty of other key information and the documents highlighted the operations of the notorious background detention facility of course starts in afghanistan they revealed the prisoner numbers for example and transfers at a facility which seen allegations of wide spread torture of their own descriptions of unreported friendly fire incidents between coalition and afghan forces in fact these leaks also showed that around fifteen thousand more civilians died in iraq than previously thought activists that they made up about eighty percent of all deaths and it's revealed that people are not de

the other witness was bradley manning's roommate there in iraq who was there, stayed with him in the me room but didn't know manning at all. they led separate existences. they didn't get much of an insight into bradley manning except that he kept to his own, kept to himself. >> and these are witnesses for the prosecution. so far it's they who will put on their case first. >> right. the prosecution is laying out their case first. they have over 100 witnesses they're scheduled to call. whether or not they'll all be called will be seen. but they have a pretty extensive witness list to lay out in detail what exactly bradley manning did wrong and why it was so wrong. >> this is expected. you mention 100 witnesses for the prosecution. this is expected to be a fairly long trial. isn't it? >> it's scheduled to go through august 23 which is quite a long amount of time. they're saying the reason for this is it's such a massive amount of data that was leaked. so many details to go through and/or to prove whether or not bradley manning caused damage, nemywa and all these questions which are outst

government versus private first class bradley manning what is his trial all about protecting state and military secrets for a show trial scapegoating one individual does this trial send a chilling warning to would be whistleblowers and to journalists and what does aiding the enemy mean in the age of the internet. to cross-talk the bradley manning trial i'm joined by my guests in washington barry he is the washington d.c. director of code pink and we also have david sheldon he is an expert in military law all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it tell you if i can go to you first as this trial started we knew bradley manning is going to sort of at least twenty years in prison so what's the point of all these other charges twenty years is a long time. well i think the government is trying to scapegoat bradley manning trying to get more time out of this they're looking to get a life sentence i'm sure that they're not going to try and kill bradley manning but i think that the government is trying to send a chill a

bradley manning. bradley bradley manning bradley manning brothers bank which we have all my family banning. so various saw celebrities like maggie gyllenhaal and russell brand along with whistleblowers like daniel ellsberg supporting the twenty five year old bradley manning has spent over one thousand and one hundred days in pretrial detention but with the start of this trial he is finally being knowledge both by the government as well as the public. well there's another scandal brewing in washington d.c. and this time it involves sex drugs and the state department and internal memo from the state department's inspector general listed eight examples of wrongdoing by agency staff or contractors they include former secretary of state hillary clinton security detail hiring prostitutes while traveling with her u.s. ambassador who trolled public parks for paid sex and a security official in favor of two committed sexual assaults on foreign nationals the internal memo sought the light of day thanks to a lawy

supporters have been demonstrating all weekend in defense of the private first class members of the bradley manning support network mark to march to fort meade on saturday to demand his release the man behind the pentagon papers leak daniel ellsberg was present at the march and so was artie's very own liz wall she followed the protestors tracks and she brings us this report. supporters of bradley manning marching in solidarity chanting carrying signs calling for his freedom but. the twenty five year old army private admitted to leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to wiki leaks the prosecution accuses him of aiding the enemy for putting the information on the internet for everyone including terrorists to see and the three years since bradley manning's arrest there have been protests held in his support today as one of the largest we've seen so far it's one of many protests happening across the country and across the globe it's just two days before his trial is set to kick off hundreds here at fort meade maryland calling for his freedom he boldly stood up and told the truth about hi

. >> i am bradley manning. >> bradley manning. >> bradley manning. >> i hope that we're. >> bradley manning. >> bill: apparently that means if bradley manning is convicted we can put phil donahue in prison for 20 years as well. joining us from washington to react fox news analyst dennis kucinich. misguided or are you on board with this? >> well, if the government lies, who is aiding the enemy. there is no proof that bradley manning had any direct communication with the enemy. that he passed information directly. some can say well, it was indirectly. there is no indication that resulted in any american soldier being hurt. >> bill: then he will be found not guilty then. >> i don't know how that's going to turn out. >> don't you believe in the nobility of the justice system in america? >> i believe in the first amendment, which is under attack by this administration. >> bill: do you believe that the government should have the right to classify information and make it a crime if that information is released. >> through 16 years in congress. >> bill: woe, woe, wait a minute. do you believe the h

demonstrations are held ahead of the bradley manning trial.lo again, the three syrian army is sending more fighters into the besieged city ofkusair rebel. are battling government soldiers who tried to recapture the town for the international committee of the red cross wants immediate access to deliver aid to trapped libyans. a third day of demonstrations in istanbul. riot police pulled back on saturday night after accusations they used excessive force the. turkish prime minister has appealed to protesters to stop the protests. more than a dozen people have been rescued from floods and oklahoma and surrounding u.s. regions. people there are trying to salvage what they can from the damaged homes. two weeks -- it was after two weeks of tornadoes. the chinese military has called for resolutions to various territory disputes and the south china seas. a chinese army colonel made the comment during a security summit in singapore. u.s. defence secretary chuck hagel promised to maintain the u.s. presence in south east asia. the colduld discard war ment

another major whistleblower accused of betraying his nation started in earnest this last week bradley manning suspected of being the wiki leaks source was accused by the prosecution of knowingly aiding the enemy manning new league secret documents revealing the u.s. army could be responsible for hundreds if not thousands of civilian deaths during the iraqi and afghan campaigns faces nearly two dozen charges and possibly life in prison is video you're watching here now i guess you may have seen it before shows an american helicopter crew hitting a group of civilians in baghdad also a reuters news crew staff as well arty's my report has more on america's apparent fondness for secrecy over transparency. the military court martial against private first class bradley manning begins at a complicated time for the obama administration u.s. journalists have been spied on an unprecedented number of whistleblowers have been imprisoned and access to the truth many say grows increasingly harder by the day we have a severe problem with transparency and secrecy in this country that's for sure our problem is