Bradley Manning team to highlight WikiLeaks suspect's fragile mental state

[harvey007]

Source: London Guardian

David Coombs, the lawyer representing Manning in his Article 32 pre-trial proceedings that open at Ford Meade in Maryland on 16 December, has presented a list of 48 people he wants to call to give evidence in Manning's defence and mitigation. Manning has been charged with 36 counts relating to the transfer of state secrets from confidential databases in Iraq to the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks, charges that carry a maximum sentence of life in military custody.

Coombs has published details of the 48 individuals, though their names have been withheld in the heavily redacted document. They include military officers, computer experts, psychologists and FBI agents, as well as an unnamed individual who is clearly President Obama and another who is evidently the secretary of state Hillary Clinton.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/dec/05/bradley-manning-wikileaks-fragile-mind

[msongs]

1. how many people has he murdered with drone attacks? Now THERE is a real crime nt

[DissedByBush]

2. None

But murder isn't the among the charges, is it?

[No Elephants]

3. Nope. We seem to have an aversion to charging murderers and other war criminals.

Which, I believe was part of msongs point.

[krabigirl]

4. +1

[No Elephants]

5. We'd all be in a fragile mental state if we got the treatment he's been given.