Nathan Fuller at Bradleymanning.org has given us gracious permission to reprint
his daily firsthand reports, which you can find below highlighted by date.
Summaries, commentary, and videos provide a comprehensive chronicle of events
from start to finish.
Pfc. Bradley Manning has been acquitted of the most serious charge against him:
aiding the enemy. After over 1,000 days in confinement, some of which was
tantamount to torture, Manning will not go down in history as the arch-villain
that the government tried to portray him as.
However, Manning was found
guilty on 19 of the lesser computer-related charges associated with the
mechanics behind the leak itself. He also previously pled guilty to other
charges, which on their own could be 10-20 years in prison. Now, with the new
ruling, Manning is looking at a maximum 136-year sentence.
As the
crackdown continues on journalists and whistleblowers alike, this should be
counted as no small victory that at the least this heroic whistleblower was not
defined as an enemy of the state. However, the ACLU and Amnesty International still rightly point out that
the government has its priorities upside down by ultimately sentencing him under
The Espionage Act, thus treating him and others as de facto enemies of
the state. Meanwhile, truly egregious acts such as torture and other crimes
against humanity are reluctantly, if at all, even investigated.
The sentencing phase could last one month with appeals to follow.
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