Manning’s conviction seen as making prosecution of WikiLeaks’ Assange likely

154 ans... mais le New York Times préfère voir les choses du bon côté,
Manning Is Acquitted of ‘Aiding the Enemy’ - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/us/bradley-manning-verdict.html

Michael Moore:

Manning found not guilty on “aiding the enemy.” That’s ’cause who he was aiding was us, the American people. And we’re not the enemy. Right?

▻https://twitter.com/MMFlint/status/362298568289173505

«Peut-être bien que si !» doit penser Edward Snowden .

D’où le point de vue de Julian Assange :

Manning’s conviction seen as making prosecution of WikiLeaks’ Assange likely - The Washington Post
▻http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/mannings-conviction-seen-as-making-prosecution-of-wikileaks-assange-likely/2013/07/30/79746700-f94f-11e2-afc1-c850c6ee5af8_story.html

Military prosecutors in the court-martial portrayed Assange as an “information anarchist” who encouraged Manning to leak hundreds of thousands of classified military and diplomatic documents. And they insisted that the anti-secrecy group cannot be considered a media organization that published the leaked information in the public interest.

Defense attorneys denied “the claim that Bradley Manning was acting under the direction of WikiLeaks and Julian Assange, but the government kept trying to bring that up, trying to essentially say that Julian was a co-conspirator,” said Michael Ratner, Assange’s American attorney and the president emeritus of the Center for Constitutional Rights in New York. “ That’s a very bad sign about what the U.S. government wants to do to Julian Assange. ”