Bradley Manning defence team says US military is withholding key evidence

[struggle4progress]

Military's delay in searching through files and handing them over is denying Manning a fair trial, defence attorney argues
Ed Pilkington in New York
guardian.co.uk, Sunday 27 May 2012 13.47 EDT

... Almost two years after Manning was arrested, the military has not yet completed a search even of its own files to see if there is any material beneficial to the defence – as it is legally obliged to do ...

Specifically, Coombs complains that he has been withheld any assessments compiled by heads of US embassies and missions around the world regarding the overall impact of the WikiLeaks releases.

He also wants to see the output of a working group of senior officials set up within the state department that reviewed the potential risks to individuals from the WikiLeaks disclosures, as well as reports made by the same department to Congress concerning the impact of WikiLeaks and the steps taken to mitigate the fall-out ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/27/bradley-manning-military-withholding-evidence?newsfeed=true

[riderinthestorm]

1. Nice try. Exemplary diligence on the part of Coombs, too bad its for naught.

Manning's already been proclaimed guilty by the CIC and so it will be... the military brass are going to do whatever it takes to ensure Manning's conviction.

[Gregorian]

2. It seems to me that the guilty party is the prosecution.

And that would make the entire trial an injustice.

[Cali_Democrat]

3. The US Military essentially wants this "trial" to be held in a kangaroo court

That much is obvious.

[99th_Monkey]

4. Classic "Damned if you do, damned if you don't" set-up

I heard Sibel Edmonds talking about this very thing on some
"conspiracy" channel, being interviewed by Alex Jones...

Ms. Edmonds is a whistleblower herself, who has been ignored,
gagged by executive order (or is it congressional?), and who
has a book coming out that should be good (which she claims
has NOT been reviewed by FBI).

Here's her website. http://www.justacitizen.com/