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Bradley manning was charged under the espionage act. the most serious charge against him was aiding the enemy. for that, he could have been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. today the judge of the bradley manning trial after deliberating for about 16 hours over the course of 3 days found him not guilty of that charge. not guilty of aiding the enemy. on an espionage charge related to a video prosecutors say he leaked in 2009, which manning denied, she also found him not guilty. but on all other charges, five counts of espionage, five theft charges, computer fraud, and breakin...

Leaks that may endanger lives. it's a serious charge. seema, i want to look at that in the context of the manning case. different than snowden in that it's much farther along, although he would presumably face very similar criticism. there is an espionage charge pending against him if he would ever return to america. in the manning case, and we'll hear the verdict tomorrow, take a listen to something a law professor wrote about how far some of these prosecutors' theories have gone. he writes, the courts has taken a step to validate the prosecution's extreme theory that by leaking materials to ...

Willingly. it was broken by the "washington post" around 6:11 friday night that that indictment had come down. so they then confirmed it a couple hours later. it was a sealed indictment. the indictment first came on the 14th of june, so the friday previous and they weren't planning to announce it. i don't think they can be faulted for announcing the espionage charge. but i'm told, and what pete williams and others who cover the justice department say is that the justice department, the fbi and justice were working very closely with hong kong authorities and thought they had a deal. they were m...

Snowden in custody seems like it might have been a strategic mistake. why did the u.s. do that? that said, china's saying that the espionage charge made it impossible for them to arrest snowden might just be another chinese excuse. they might not have been planning on arresting him at all no matter what he was charged with. the chinese government seems to be enjoying one of the things he's leaked about is the u.s. spying on china. now they get to crow about that publicly and say the u.s. is a hypocrite for complaining about chinese spying since america is spying on them. and then they let the ...

>> they did not announce it w l willing willingly. it was broken by the "washington post" around 6:11 friday night that that indictment had come down. so they then confirmed it a couple hours later. it was a sealed indictment. the indictment first came on the 14th of june, so the friday previous and they weren't planning to announce it. i don't think they can be faulted for announcing the espionage charge. but i'm told, and what pete williams and others who cover the justice department say is that the justice department, the fbi and justice were working very closely with hong kong authorities ...