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The US Government Showed Greater Transparency With Guantanamo Trials Than They Have With Manning
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-showed-greater-transparency-with-guantanamo-trials-than-they-have-with-bradley-manning-2012-3
Manning has been in confinement for 664 days. His trial will most likely take place this summer.
A coalition of news organizations and the lawyer of Julian Assange have each written a letter to the U.S. Government requesting that documents pertaining to Bradley Manning's court-martial trial be made public, Courthouse News Service reports.
Documents and information filed in the Manning case are not available to the public anywhere and there has been no prior notice of issues to be litigated in the case, raising serious First Amendment concerns.
Manning, 24, has been held in pretrial detention since May 2010 on suspicion that he sent WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of files that included global diplomatic cables, incident reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and footage of a July 12, 2007, Baghdad air strike that killed 11 people (including two Reuters journalists).
He is charged with charged with 22 counts, including aiding the enemy.
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/us-government-showed-greater-transparency-with-guantanamo-trials-than-they-have-with-bradley-manning-2012-3#ixzz1q24V3Han