Michael Moore joins Daniel Ellsberg in campaign to free Bradley Manning in war logs case

[G_j]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/sep/15/bradley-manning-campaign-michael-moore


Michael Moore campaigns to free Bradley Manning in war logs case

Documentary maker joins Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon papers fame to head worldwide protests over WikiLeaks prosecution

The Vietnam war whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and the film-maker Michael Moore have launched an international campaign to demand the release of Bradley Manning, the American soldier charged with passing classified material to WikiLeaks.

Demonstrations are planned in the US, Canada and Australia over the next three days in support of Manning, an army intelligence analyst who is being held at a military prison in Virginia.

The leaks include a cache of documents – published in the Guardian as the Afghan war logs – drawn from 76,000 pages of military records made public by WikiLeaks to challenge the US government's assertion that the fight against the Taliban is being won.

WikiLeaks says it will release thousands more pages of similar documents soon.

Manning, 23, is also accused of involvement in WikiLeaks' exposure of a video of a US helicopter attack on apparently unarmed Iraqis in a Baghdad street. Two Reuters employees were among those killed.


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[Smarmie Doofus]

1. Kick and Rec. Slightly off topic , but not really:

>>>Ellsberg, who leaked the Pentagon papers to the New York Times that laid bare the extent of US government duplicity in its claims to be winning the Vietnam war, said Manning was defending the constitution in revealing the truth about the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan>>>>



Interesting to go back and read about the campaign to undermine and discredit.... and perhaps even *kill* ...... Ellsberg by rw gov't creeps in the early 70's and how that compares to recent bad press mysteriously proliferating for Manning and esp. for Assange.

The more things change.... the more they DON'T.

[madmax]

2. It's a start

I will be satisfied when *bush and Cheney are brought before the Hague for war crimes.

[G_j]

4. agreed

this is a must!

[pleah]

3. K&R

[Smarmie Doofus]

5. Kick nt

[Ignis]

6. K&R.

...But I'm sure we'll see a few "sensible" "moderates" chiming in shortly to complain about Mr. Moore's weight or some such nonsense.