Army leaker’s trial resumes with short session at Fort Meade, Md.; courtroom closures coming

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By Associated Press
Updated: Tuesday, June 25, 10:16 AM

... In a housekeeping session Tuesday, defense attorney David Coombs said he had no objection to the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, closing the courtroom to hear prosecutors read aloud the classified sections of written witness statements.

The first closure could come as early as Wednesday, when testimony resumes ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/army-leakers-trial-resumes-ruling-on-admissibility-of-alleged-wikileaks-tweets-awaited/2013/06/25/c146eb34-dd9d-11e2-bc84-8049224b33e1_story.html

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1. Army leaker's trial resumes; ruling on admissibility of alleged WikiLeaks tweets awaited

Published June 25, 2013
Associated Press

... The military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, is calling Tuesday's session a status hearing, with no testimony expected.

She has yet to rule on a defense motion seeking to block the admission of tweets and web pages that prosecutors say were posted by WikiLeaks in 2009 ...

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/06/25/army-leaker-trial-resumes-ruling-on-admissibility-alleged-wikileaks-tweets/

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2. Courtroom closures likely at Army leaker's trial

By DAVID DISHNEAU Associated Press
Posted: 06/25/2013 06:42:48 AM PDT
Updated: 06/25/2013 11:34:12 AM PDT

FORT MEADE, Md.—Lawyers for Army leaker Pfc. Bradley Manning raised no objection Tuesday to a government proposal to temporarily close his court-martial to the public and press, possibly as early as this week, to protect classified evidence.

As the trial entered its fourth week, defense attorney David Coombs told the military judge, Army Col. Denise Lind, he had no objection to closing the courtroom only while prosecutors read aloud the classified sections of written witness statements.

Prosecutors have said they expect to present as many as 17 such statements this week. The statements, called stipulations of expected testimony, may include evidence about more than 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables Manning is accused of stealing from a classified computer database ...

On Monday, Maj. Gen. Jeffery S. Buchanan succeeded Maj. Gen. Michael S. Linnington as commander of the Military District of Washington. In the military justice system, court-martial verdicts and sentences can be thrown out or reduced by the convening authority—the commander who ordered the court-martial. Upon a change of command, that authority passes to the new commander ...

http://www.insidebayarea.com/news/ci_23533967/army-leakers-trial-resumes-at-fort-meade-md