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Bradley Manning aided al-Qaida with WikiLeaks documents-charged with aiding the enemy
Source: The Guardian
Bradley Manning aided al-Qaida with WikiLeaks documents, military says
Manning, charged with aiding the enemy, accused of indirectly aiding terrorist group by leaking thousands of documents
Army private Bradley Manning aided al-Qaida by leaking hundreds of thousands of military and other government documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, the military said.
Manning had previously been charged with aiding the enemy among a total of 22 counts, but on Thursday the military identified the enemy Manning's actions aided. Manning and his attorneys are appearing at a hearing at a military courtroom for two days of hearings in the case.
During Thursday morning's hearing the military judge in the case announced military prosecutors' answers to a series of questions about the accusations against Manning. The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, said the government contends Manning indirectly aided al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula by giving information to WikiLeaks.
Military prosecutors say Manning, 24, downloaded and sent to WikiLeaks nearly half a million sensitive battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, and a video of a deadly 2007 Army helicopter attack that WikiLeaks shared with the world and dubbed "Collateral Murder".
Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/15/bradley-manning-wikileaks?newsfeed=true
Here's what Mitt Romney got for $100 million
MORE:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/03/15/1074738/-Less-than-4-in-10-Republican-primary-voters-have-picked-Mitt-Romney
who knew the Fox Had Mittens?
Romney: Fox News is ‘pretty fair and balanced’
On his Thursday radio show, Kilmeade invited Romney to set the record straight.
“I don’t think you are shilling for anyone to tell you the truth,” the former Massachusetts governor insisted. “Each one of the people I meet has their own opinions. My guess is different ones of the commentators have different people they think have a better shot. But you don’t hear that from the network or from the individual commentators.”
“I think it’s, as you say, pretty fair and balanced,” he added. “The truth is you report it all and you give us a chance to respond. That’s all we can ask for.”
Watch this video from Fox News Radio’s Kilmeade & Friends, broadcast March 15, 2011 and uploaded by Media Matters.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/03/15/romney-fox-news-is-pretty-fair-and-balanced/
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201203150006
who knew the Fox Had Mittens?
TSA relaxes rules on airport screening for travelers 75 and older
Source: Los Angeles Times
Travelers 75 years old and older will be allowed to leave their shoes and a lightweight jacket on when they pass through airport screenings at four U.S. airports starting Monday, the Transportation Security Administration said Thursday.
It's part of a pilot program that also allows older passengers to pass through metal detectors or body scanners more than once to resolve security issues if an alarm goes off. "We know people in that population and age group pose a lower risk to security," TSA spokeswoman Lorie Dankers says. "We're trying to reduce the number of pat-downs."
Dankers says the shift is part of the TSA's promise to move away from one-size-fits-all security screenings to a model that focuses on high-risk travelers. However, Dankers says, this doesn't mean older passengers are exempt from pat-downs or extra screening.
The pilot screening program next week will begin at airports in Chicago (O'Hare International Airport), Denver, Portland and Orlando. Not all checkpoints at those airports will have a line for older passengers, and finding one that does may not be the closest one to a passenger's departure gate. Dankers says signs will be up to designate the appropriate checkpoints.
Read more: http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-tsa-older-passengers-revisions-20120315,0,504808.story
Attorney asks for dismissal in WikiLeaks case
Source: Seattle Post Intelligencer
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — An attorney for an Army private charged with leaking hundreds of thousands of pages of classified information asked a military judge Thursday to dismiss the charges against his client, arguing the government bungled the turning over of documents in the case.
The request came during a hearing for Pfc. Bradley Manning at a military courtroom at Fort Meade, Md., near Baltimore. Military prosecutors say Manning, a 24-year-old Oklahoma native, downloaded and sent to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents and diplomatic cables. The military says Manning indirectly aided al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula by giving information to the WikiLeaks site.
Defense lawyers say Manning was clearly a troubled young soldier whom the Army should never have deployed to Iraq or given access to classified material. They say the leaked material did little or no harm to national security.
On Thursday, military prosecutors and Manning's attorney David Coombs disagreed about the extent of the government's obligation to turn over documents in the case before trial. Coombs argued the government has to turn over a broad range of documents, including ones that are classified, but he has not received information he requested. He said he was asking that charges against his client be dismissed because the government has "hopelessly" messed up the document turnover in the nearly two years his client has been incarcerated.
Read more: http://www.seattlepi.com/news/article/Attorney-asks-for-dismissal-in-WikiLeaks-case-3408717.php#ixzz1pDWbDiVy
POTUS gets the mix.
http://dailydish.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e2016763d4efea970b-550wi
http://www.towleroad.com/2012/03/gay-and-lesbian-guests-have-sizable-place-at-white-house-state-dinner-table.html
I bumped into many people - we were next to John Legend and his fiancee and the British ambassador and his wife at dinner - and did have a brief and warm chat with the president. I think such things should remain confidential, but you should know that there's a Dish-reader in the Oval Office, and "not just the political stuff." So don't feel too guilty about our regular dips into pop-culture, high and low. POTUS gets the mix.
There were several openly gay couples present, which is change you really can believe in, and we entered with the future HRC head, Chad Griffin and his boyfriend. I also didn't realize the impact that the Newsweek Obama cover-story had on Obama donors and staffers until last night. So many people mentioned it. Oh, and George Clooney came up to say hi. Not since Jon Hamm came out as a Dish reader at the White House Correspondents' Dinner did such a shiver go up my leg.
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/03/about-las.html
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