United States v. Manning is the court-martial case involving United States Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (now known as Chelsea Manning), who delivered U.S. government documents to persons not authorized to receive them in 2009 and 2010. Media reports said that the receiver was Julian Assange of WikiLeaks. Manning was arrested in May 2010 and a court-martial was held in June–August 2013.[1] The charges were related to events which occurred "at or near" Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, in 2009 and 2010.

Charges

By code violation

The charges were:

Total: 34

Listed by document

Most of the charges are related to the transfer of documents to another party. These documents are:

According to news reports, many of the documents are the same as documents published by WikiLeaks, including:

Listed in the order given on the charge sheets

First set of charges (2010)

The first set of charges came on July 5, 2010. The Specifications (Spec.) are listed below in the same order as given on the charge sheets. To the right of each specification is a description of the related documents or actions.[10]

Charge 1: Violation of UCMJ Article 92 (Failure to obey a lawful order or regulation)
Charge 2: Violation of UCMJ Article 134 (General article)

Second set of charges (2011)

A second set of charges was presented on March 1, 2011, and are as follows:[11]

Additional Charge 1: Violation of UCMJ Article 104 (Aiding the enemy)
Additional Charge 2: Violation of UCMJ Article 134 (General article)
Additional Charge 3: Violation of UCMJ Article 92 (Failure to obey a lawful order or regulation)

See also

References

  1. ^ The Hague Academic Coalition, DomCLIC Project (2011). "The United States Army v Bradley Manning". Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Retrieved 2011-04-13. ((cite web)): External link in |author= (help)
  2. ^ US Army (2000). "Army Regulation 308-5" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  3. ^ US Army (2009). "Army Regulation 2-25" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-13.
  4. ^ Harold Edgar & Benno C. Schmidt, Jr. (May 1973). "The Espionage Statutes and Publication of Defense Information" (PDF). Columbia Law Review. 73 (5): 937. Retrieved 2011-04-11. from the Federation of American Scientists website
  5. ^ Jennifer K. Elsea (2010-01-10). "Criminal Prohibitions on the Publication of Classified Defense Information" (PDF). Retrieved 2011-04-13. from the Federation of American Scientists website
  6. ^ US DOJ, Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section, Scott Eltringham, ed. (Feb 2007). "Prosecuting Computer Crimes". Archived from the original on 2010-08-01. Retrieved 2011-04-16. ((cite web)): |author= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) Chapter 1, Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, pg 14
  7. ^ a b How Manning Stole The Cables Archived 2012-03-15 at the Wayback Machine by Nick Dubaz on November 30, 2010, conflicthealth.com (website of Christopher Albon) retr Sep 2011
  8. ^ A Narrative Chronology of Bradley Manning’s Alleged Leaks, March 5, 2011, Marcy Wheeler
  9. ^ Video Captures Bradley Manning With Hacker Pals at Time of First Leaks Kim Zetter, Wired.com, May 20, 2011
  10. ^ US Army HHC, 2d BCT, 10th MTN Div (LI) (2010-07-05). "Charge Sheet of Bradley E. Manning" (PDF). Federation of Atomic Scientists. Retrieved 2015-10-03.((cite web)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  11. ^ US Army, MDW, OSJA, HQ CMD BN, USA (2011-03-02). "Charge Sheet of Bradley E. Manning (Additional)" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-03.((cite news)): CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

External links

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