Wiki Tweets Can Be Used Against Manning
Wiki Tweets Can Be Used Against Manning
FT. MEADE, Md. (CN) - Prosecutors trying to convict Pfc. Bradley Manning of "aiding the enemy" can use a pair of Twitter postings they say Manning consulted before sending files to WikiLeaks, a military judge ruled.
Months before his trial, the 25-year-old soldier acknowledged he uploaded more than 700,000 files, including diplomatic cables, incident reports from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, profiles of Guantanamo detainees, and a video of an airstrike in Baghdad that WikiLeaks titled "Collateral Murder."
In making that statement, he insisted that nobody at WikiLeaks pressured him to send more documents. Prosecutors' claims to the contrary largely hinge upon two Tweets they pulled from a Google cache.
A Jan. 8, 2010, post states: "Have encrypted videos of US bomb strikes on civilians http://bit.ly/wlafghan2 we need super computer time http://ljsf.org."
Prosecutors said the first post connects Manning to the disclosure of video taken from an airstrike on the Farah province of Afghanistan that reportedly killed an estimated 86 to 147 civilians.
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