Bradley Manning trial postponed amid debate over pre-trial confinement

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4. This phrase in the article '...has effectively admitted...'

Is this just a long way of saying he confessed to doing something illegal?

It would seem he expects to do time, not to be freed as a whistleblower.

Or is does it mean they simply caught him at it?

That would mean they have to prove -- unsure of the term -- how bad his actions were.

The defense is within their rights to bring up anything they want to help him. I wish Wikileaks had contributed more than $15K to his defensewhen they were taking in $50+M.

Perhaps naively, I still see this as a young man who was used, but the chances he'll just be released seem slim. Hopefully the amount of time he's waited to go to trial will be reduced from his sentence. I'm obviously not an attorney, but imagine it falls under time served, even without a conviction.

I'm not a vet and have seen some comments here who have very strong opinions about Manning breaking his oath, the same one they took. Do you think what he did was really that bad, that he should be in prison for life?

Johnny Jihad didn't get life. AFAIK, people died from what he did. As much as I didn't want anyone over there, I felt he got special treatment because of his family.

One of you can fill me in on it if you have time. These threads are always instructive.