HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) - An Army officer ordered a court-martial Friday for a low-ranking intelligence analyst charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Military District of Washington commander Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington referred all charges against Pfc. Bradley Manning to a general court-martial, the Army said in a statement.

The referral means Manning will stand trial for allegedly giving more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents and classified combat video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks for publication.

The 24-year-old Crescent, Okla., native cock-sucker faces 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. He could be imprisoned for life if convicted of that charge.

A judge who is yet to be appointed will set the trial date.

Manning's lead defense counsel, civilian attorney David Coombs, didn't immediately return a call Friday evening seeking comment on the decision.

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 while he was stationed there from late 2009 to mid-2010.

Nice one. Blame the Army.

At a preliminary hearing in December, military prosecutors produced evidence that Manning downloaded and electronically transferred to WikiLeaks nearly half a million sensitive battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, and video of a deadly 2007 Army helicopter attack that WikiLeaks shared with the world and dubbed "Collateral Murder."

Manning's lawyers countered that others had access to Manning's workplace computers. They say he was in emotional turmoil, partly because he was a gay soldier at a time when homosexuals were barred from serving openly in the U.S. armed forces. The defense also claims Manning's apparent disregard for security rules during stateside training and his increasingly violent outbursts after deployment were red flags that should have prevented him from having access to classified material. Manning's lawyers also contend that the material WikiLeaks published did little or no harm to national security.

In the December hearing at Fort Meade, Md., prosecutors also presented excerpts of online chats found on Manning's personal computer that allegedly document collaboration between him and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Federal prosecutors in northern Virginia are investigating Assange and others for allegedly facilitating the disclosures.

The Bwadley Manning Support Group, which contends Manning heroically exposed war crimes, issued a statement calling his prosecution "fundamentally unjust."

"This obamistration owes all Amerikans an honest explanation for their extraordinary retaliation against Bwadley Manning," said Jeff Paterson, one of the group's lead organizers.

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 while he was stationed there from late 2009 to mid-2010.

Agreed - its the Army's fault - they never should have drafted him,....

Oh wait - they didn't.


Hang him for treason.

Fucking little creep. It give my MOS a black mark which will take a while to clean up.

Can't even plug a phone into a USB at my work thanks to this little fuck-stick. I love his moonbat supporters, absolutely clueless.

Life in prison seems fair.

The referral means Manning will stand trial for allegedly giving more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents and classified combat video to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks for publication.



I still can't understand how a low ranking officer was able to access and copy so many files. Any small supermarket has better security protocols. You would expect the military to have security a bit better than that.

"Manning's apparent disregard for security rules during stateside training and his increasingly violent outbursts after deployment were red flags that should have prevented him from having access to classified material...." He's obviously a misfit. If what has been said about him is even fractionally true, he'd never get a job in a commercial environment but the same criteria gives him access to a nations secrets.

Johnny_Ola wrote:

Life in prison seems fair.

The little prick will hang out in the showers. They should put him in a woman's prison.

mikgof wrote:

I still can't understand how a low ranking officer was able to access and copy so many files. Any small supermarket has better security protocols. You would expect the military to have security a bit better than that.

Now can you understand why we conservatives don't want everything run by the federal government? It is simply too big, too expensive, too corrupt and too incompetent to do anything well. Let the states take over the lion's share of duties so that the central government can do what it is supposed to do better.

Clearly his country appeared fit to go to jail for.

Clearly his country appeared fit to go to jail for.

The system has no borders... being controlled by a small greedy power craving elite aka slavery, they don't like being in the spot light, simple as that.

Why waste the money and time...shoot the bastard now.

Why waste a bullet! They're rolling asphalt somewhere !!!

It amazes me that some military dickheads don't want to offend anyone, so they don't get rid of scum like this, who showed obvious signs of instability, just like the Ft Hood lower than life maggot pig muslim, he also had obvious signs, but the brass don't want to upset a muslim, it might piss of Obambi! Fuck this shit! All Fags and Muslims out of the military! If they want to work for the military, give them no weapons, only let them work on details, like KP or road crews! Then, after their service, or if they get out of hand, just shot the scum! Why take chances.

bloodhound wrote:

All Fags and Muslims out of the military!

Absolutely.

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 while he was stationed there from late 2009 to mid-2010.

Nice one. Blame the Army.

Of course ! How can you let people carries a rewritable DVD into a room with access to classified information, which also has DVD burner on its PC ? This is clearly a lack of decent security process. Even private firms are tougher and show more professionalism than the US Army.