Bradley Manning's Wikileaks hearing opens as defense seeks dismissal of 10 counts

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Bradley Manning's Wikileaks hearing opens as defense seeks dismissal of 10 counts
By msnbc.com staff and news services

FORT MEADE, Md. — WikiLeaks suspect Pvt. Bradley Manning appeared at a military court outside Washington on Wednesday for a three-day pretrial hearing at which his lawyers were seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts against him.

Agence France Presse news agency described Manning as frail-looking while seated between two members of his defense team when the hearing got under way, after an hour-long closed door meeting between lawyers for both sides.

Manning, a 24-year-old Crescent, Okla., native, faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted of the most serious charge: aiding the enemy. He allegedly sent to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of classified diplomatic cables and war logs downloaded from government computers while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in late 2009 and early 2010.

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Article doesn't give the 10 counts they want dismissed. I suppose his supporters will start up again.....

[MilesColtrane]

an English country house while going over notes for his next TV show.

You got screwed Pvt. Manning, and it wasn't by the U.S. government.

Well, maybe Julian will send you postcards after they lock you away in Supermax.