Swedish Prosecutors to Drop Sexual Assault Investigation Against Wikileaks Founder Julian Assange

The statute of limitations has done run out, heh.

And the freak Assange is still holed up in the Ecuadorean embassy in London.

The fucker's gonna skate like a bird now.

At the BBC, "Julian Assange case: Sweden to drop sex assault inquiry."

Also at Euronews, "Sweden to drop sex assault investigations into Wikileaks founder."

Edward Snowden: Patriot or Traitor?

I bought a copy of the new Vanity Fair in hard copy last weekend at Harrah's Resort. That Snowden piece is probably 10,000 words. I don't love those long articles, although I'd recommend this one for anyone looking for a decent recap of all that's gone down with this idiot. He's a traitor IMHO.

See, "The Snowden Saga: A Shadowland of Secrets and Light."



They've posted the entire piece, so have at it. I thought it would've been gated, but what do you know?

Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald, Julian Assange and 'Paranoid Libertarianism'

Louise Mensch calls this story a "bombshell," from Sean Wilentz, at the New Statesman, "Would you feel differently about Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange if you knew what they really thought?"

Would you feel differently about Snowden, Greenwald, and Assange if you knew what they really thought? - http://t.co/aSsLxjD4Mt

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

- http://t.co/aSsLxjD4Mt @20committee @eclecticbrotha @TheWarRoom_Tom - good Snowden hypocrisy quotes here

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

Never thought I'd be tweeting this but vital New Statesman #Snowden piece http://t.co/aSsLxjD4Mt

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

The most important story I have read so far this year. #Greenwald #Snowden and #Assange FSB backing, links. http://t.co/aSsLxjD4Mt

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

Evidence is now coming thick and fast that #Snowden was a Russian asset pre-leaks, and that @ggreenwald has knowingly falsified his stories.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

I cannot resist an "I told you so." #Greenwald #Snowden #Rusbridger

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

Apologies for all who couldn't click on my archive links. Bombshell New Statesman story on FSB/Snowden asset here. http://t.co/obCzjq0Bgr

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

It contains: anti-immigrant rants from 40 year old lawyer @ggreenwald demanding "assimilation" http://t.co/obCzjq0Bgr

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

It contains: hard evidence @ggreenwald and @arusbridger knowingly published a false story: http://t.co/obCzjq0Bgr

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

It contains: #Snowden's chat room rants against "national security leakers" and the elderly: http://t.co/obCzjq0Bgr

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

.@ggreenwald immigrants -"endless hordes of people [who] pour over the border in numbers far too large to assimilate...& have no ability to"

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

.@ggreenwald immigrants a threat "to middle class suburban voters." Blames quotes on youth, was 38 year old lawyer at time

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

#Snowden: "Someone who leaked classified shit deserves to be shot in the balls". Real quote. http://t.co/obCzjq0Bgr

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

Greenwald-istas keep tweeting "there's no evidence". The New Republic/New Statesman story cites comprehensive evidence, quotes included.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) January 20, 2014

Why Snowden Won't (and Shouldn't) Get Clemency

From Fred Kaplan, at Slate, "He went too far to be considered just a whistleblower" (via Louise Mensch):

I regard Daniel Ellsberg as an American patriot. I was one of the first columnists to write that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper should be fired for lying to Congress. On June 7, two days after the first news stories based on Edward Snowden’s leaks, I wrote a column airing (and endorsing) the concerns of Brian Jenkins, a leading counterterrorism expert, that the government’s massive surveillance program had created “the foundation of a very oppressive state.”

And yet I firmly disagree with the New York Times’ Jan. 1 editorial (“Edward Snowden, Whistle-Blower”), calling on President Obama to grant Snowden “some form of clemency” for the “great service” he has done for his country.

It is true that Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency’s surveillance of American citizens—far vaster than any outsider had suspected, in some cases vaster than the agency’s overseers on the secret FISA court had permitted—have triggered a valuable debate, leading possibly to much-needed reforms.

If that were all that Snowden had done, if his stolen trove of beyond-top-secret documents had dealt only with the NSA’s domestic surveillance, then some form of leniency might be worth discussing.

But Snowden did much more than that. The documents that he gave the Washington Post’s Barton Gellman and the Guardian’s Glenn Greenwald have, so far, furnished stories about the NSA’s interception of email traffic, mobile phone calls, and radio transmissions of Taliban fighters in Pakistan’s northwest territories; about an operation to gauge the loyalties of CIA recruits in Pakistan; about NSA email intercepts to assist intelligence assessments of what’s going on inside Iran; about NSA surveillance of cellphone calls “worldwide,” an effort that (in the Post’s words) “allows it to look for unknown associates of known intelligence targets by tracking people whose movements intersect.” In his first interview with the South China Morning Post, Snowden revealed that the NSA routinely hacks into hundreds of computers in China and Hong Kong.

These operations have nothing to do with domestic surveillance or even spying on allies. They are not illegal, improper, or (in the context of 21st-century international politics) immoral. Exposing such operations has nothing to do with “whistle-blowing.”

Many have likened Snowden’s actions to Daniel Ellsberg’s leaking of the Pentagon Papers. (Ellsberg himself has made the comparison.) But the Pentagon Papers were historical documents on how the United States got involved in the Vietnam War. Ellsberg leaked them (after first taking them to several senators, who wanted nothing to do with them) in the hopes that their revelations would inspire pressure to end the war. It’s worth noting that he did not leak several volumes of the Papers dealing with ongoing peace talks. Nor did he leak anything about tactical operations. Nor did he go to North Vietnam and praise its leaders (as Snowden did in Russia).

The New Yorker’s Amy Davidson, who has called on Obama to “pardon” Snowden, cited Jimmy Carter’s pardoning of Vietnam-era draft dodgers as “a useful parallel when thinking about Snowden’s legal situation.” This suggestion is mind-boggling on several levels. Among other things, Snowden signed an oath, as a condition of his employment as an NSA contractor, not to disclose classified information, and knew the penalties for violating the oath. The young men who evaded the draft, either by fleeing to Canada or serving jail terms, did so in order to avoid taking an oath to fight a war that they opposed—a war that was over, and widely reviled, by the time that Carter pardoned them.

There are no such extenuating circumstances favoring forgiveness of Snowden. The Times editorial paints an incomplete picture when it claims that he “stole a trove of highly classified documents after he became disillusioned with the agency’s voraciousness.” In fact, as Snowden himself told the South China Morning Post, he took his job as an NSA contractor, with Booz Allen Hamilton, because he knew that his position would grant him “access to lists of machines all over the world [that] the NSA hacked.” He stayed there for just three months, enough to do what he came to do.

Mark Hosenball and Warren Strobel of Reuters later reported, in an eye-opening scoop, that Snowden gained access to his cache of documents by persuading 20 to 25 of his fellow employees to give him their logins and passwords, saying he needed the information to help him do his job as systems administrator. (Most of these former colleagues were subsequently fired.)

Is a clear picture emerging of why Snowden’s prospects for clemency resemble the proverbial snowball’s chance in hell? He gets himself placed at the NSA’s signals intelligence center in Hawaii for the sole purpose of pilfering extremely classified documents. (How many is unclear: I’ve heard estimates ranging from “tens of thousands” to 1.1 million.)  He gains access to many of them by lying to his fellow workers (and turning them into unwitting accomplices). Then he flees to Hong Kong (a protectorate of China, especially when it comes to foreign policy) and, from there, to Russia.

This isn’t quite what it would have seemed in Cold War times...

A great piece of writing. Basically, Snowden's a very bad man. Far from a patriot, he's deserving of a long stint behind bars, if not the death penalty (a point on which I vehemently disagree with Kaplan).

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Snowden, and Greenwald, at Rolling Stone

Andrew Bolt posted on this earlier, "Did Snowden know precisely the damage he’d cause the West - and not its rivals?"

But see the whole thing, at Rolling Stone, "Snowden and Greenwald: The Men Who Leaked the Secrets."

And ICYMI, see Jamie Kirchick, at Commentary, "Treason Chic," which pretty much sums up my thoughts about the whole thing.

Apple, Google, Microsoft and Others Launch Campaign for NSA Reform

A lot of good that'll do, but see the Verge.

Backlash Against Britain's Treasonous Guardian Newspaper

I check Louise Mensch's Twitter feed everyday.

She's been on a crusade to bring charges against the Guardian UK for its treasonous publication of the NSA files, including the identities of UK intelligence personnel.

The Guardian backtracking frantically, trying to avoid Terrorism Act 2000 prosecution over GCHQ ... http://t.co/wgOCj5KMzC

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

My questions about Guardian trafficking GCHQ names panicking paper - they only deny SPIES names ... http://t.co/0inH1wfaNF

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

You will note the @Guardian does not deny trafficking names of GCHQ staff - a clear crime under the Terrorism Act http://t.co/cNu0KEDVEG

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

Did it FedEx names of GCHQ personnel to ProPublica? Did you, @Guardian? #Snowden #TerrorismAct http://t.co/cNu0KEDVEG

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

There is no public interest defence to the crime of disclosing identity of anyone who works in the intelligence services. Guardian panicking

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

And you better believe I have been collating the tweets and quotes of vainglorious Guardianistas who now realize trafficking data a crime

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

There is a difference in law between receiving files and reporting on them, and then copying, trafficking and distributing them #Snowden

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

The Guardian have copied, duplicated and trafficked the files as @janinegibson and @arusbridger have both boasted online

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

Meanwhile, it seems all is not well with Edward #Snowden. His father was promised he could see him. #Wikileaks now keeping him from his son.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

#Snowden's father traveled to Russia to see his boy and now is being denied access. What a surprise.

— Louise Mensch (@LouiseMensch) October 13, 2013

And see the devastating editorial at London's Daily Mail, "The paper that helps Britain's enemies."

Also at CIF Watch, "The paper which hates Britain? Guardian leaks ‘worst blow to British intel ever’":

The focus of this blog is of course to monitor the Guardian for antisemitism and the assault on Israel’s legitimacy, but it’s vital to understand the broader ideology which inspires the anti-Zionism we are constantly documenting.  Glenn Greenwald, as with his fellow political travelers at the Guardian, is not a mere “progressive” commentator (yet alone a “journalist) but, rather, a radical activist inspired by an “anti-imperialist” ideology which holds his own country and its democratic allies in contempt, and advances propaganda which amplifies the message of our enemies.

The Guardian’s editor Alan Rusbridger, typifying the vitriol directed against the West by many within the leftist intelligentsia, in defending his paper’s right to publish classified documents, referred to George Orwell’s book ’1984′ and argued that US and British intelligence gathering went “beyond Orwell’s imagination”. However, Orwell understood the advantages of even flawed democracies over totalitarian regimes and realized the danger of an intellectual elite which doesn’t understand such stark moral differences.

In 1945, Orwell published “Notes on Nationalism” which argued that within the leftist intelligentsia there is “a derisive and mildly hostile attitude towards Britain [that] is more or less compulsory”, and that that, to such intellectuals, political outrage is inevitably directed not towards truly totalitarian regimes, but “almost entirely against Britain and the United States.”

The Guardian’s role in nurturing indifference towards its own country’s national security – a political orientation John Stuart Mill characterized as a “decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling” – should rightly be seen as a genuine threat to the Western political values to which true liberals remain loyal.

Guardian editors and contributors may not hate Britain, but their activism certainly serves to aid and abet those who do.

Actually, I disagree there: They hate their country with a white-hot revulsion, as do any hard-leftists in any country, such as the American left supporting traitors such as Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden himself.

Bradley Manning Apologizes in Court

At iOWNTHEWORLD, "Mentally Ill Bradley Manning Takes to the Stand and Apologizes to Judge."



And drama queens all around, at WikiLeaks, "Response to Today’s Bradley Manning Statement."

Also at NYT, "Manning, Facing Prison for Leaks, Apologizes at Court-Martial Trial." (Via Memeorandum.)

Australian Journalist Asher Wolf Leaks Video From Inside Bradley Manning Trial

Well, this has a few people pissed off.

Here's the Telegraph UK, "WikiLeaks: Secret video shows inside of Bradley Manning courtroom":

A short video secretly filmed inside the court martial of Bradley Manning, the US soldier convicted of giving classified files to WikiLeaks, has emerged on the internet in a second major breach of courtroom security.

Here's Ms. Wolf on Twitter:

Yes, there was another leak from Bradley Manning's trial at Fort Meade. And I've published it. http://t.co/rm5M8D1dI7 #Wikileaks

— Asher Wolf (@Asher_Wolf) August 11, 2013

Xeni Jardin is not pleased:

Thanks to you, jackass, whoever you are, an important piece of history may go undocumented. Congrats. Video has zero news value. Happy?

— Xeni Jardin (@xeni) August 11, 2013

Expect updates. This is hilarious!

Manning Verdict Said to Raise Odds of WikiLeaks' Assange Prosecution

At the video communist Amy Goodman interviews Michael Ratner, an attorney for WikiLeaks.

And at the Washington Post, "Manning’s conviction seen as making prosecution of WikiLeaks’ Assange likely":

The conviction of Army private Bradley Manning on espionage charges Tuesday makes it increasingly likely that the United States will prosecute WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange as a co-conspirator, according to his attorney and civil liberties groups.

Judge Denise Lind, an Army colonel, found Manning guilty of several violations of the Espionage Act, and he could face life in prison. Press freedom advocates said the verdict adds to their alarm that the Obama administration’s aggressive pursuit of leakers will discourage whistleblowers from providing critical information on military and intelligence matters.

#Snowden Offered Asylum by Venezuela and Nicaragua

At Telegraph UK, "Venezuela and Nicaragua offer Edward Snowden asylum."

And at the Los Angeles Times:

Venezuela, Nicaragua open their doors to NSA leaker Snowden http://t.co/goIgSInvOs

— L.A. Times World (@latimesworld) July 6, 2013

And on Twitter, folks giving Snowden advice: take lots of toilet paper.

Ecuador's Second Thoughts on #Snowden

That idiot Snowden's getting hung out to dry.

At the Guardian UK, "Rafael Correa not considering Snowden asylum: helping him was a 'mistake'."

And two videos, "Snowden asylum "economic suicide" for Ecuador," and "US warns Ecuador over Snowden case."

And at WikiLeaks, "Statement from Edward Snowden in Moscow." (Via Memeorandum.)

Obama Looks to Limit Damage Over EU Bugging

At Guardian UK, "Barack Obama seeks to limit EU fallout over US spying claims."

President says NSA will assess espionage allegations as France and Germany demand answers and warn of delay to trade talks.

Barack Obama has sought to limit the damage from the growing transatlantic espionage row after Germany and France denounced the major snooping activities of US agencies and warned of a possible delay in the launch next week of ambitious free-trade talks between Europe and the US.

The German chancellor, Angela Merkel, and French president, François Hollande, demanded quick explanations from Washington about disclosures by the Guardian and Der Spiegel that US agencies bugged European embassies and offices. Berlin stressed there had to be mutual trust if trade talks were to go ahead in Washington on Monday.

Hollande went further, indicating the talks could be called off unless the alleged spying was stopped immediately and US guarantees were provided.

The diplomatic row came as Edward Snowden – the fugitive National Security Agency (NSA) whistleblower, who faces espionage charges in the US and is holed up in Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport – applied for asylum in Russia. Snowdenhe used his first public statement to attack the US for revoking his passport and accused it of bullying countries that might grant him asylum.

Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, said on Monday: "If he wants to go somewhere and someone will take him, go ahead. If he wants to stay here, there is one condition – he must stop his work aimed at bringing harm to our American partners, as strange as that sounds coming from my mouth. "Russia never gives anyone up and doesn't plan to give anyone up. And no one has ever given us anyone."

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Julian Assange Interview on ABC's 'This Week with George Stephanopoulos'

He just lies through his teeth at this clip.

HAT TIP: Memeorandum.

Obama's Fading Foreign Policy Influence

From Bret Stephens, at the Wall Street Journal, "The Age of American Impotence":

... however the Snowden episode turns out (and don't be surprised if the Russians wind up handing him over in exchange for an unspecified American favor), what it mainly illustrates is that we are living in an age of American impotence. The Obama administration has decided it wants out from nettlesome foreign entanglements, and now finds itself surprised that it's running out of foreign influence.

That is the larger significance of last week's Afghan diplomatic debacle, in which the Taliban opened an office in Doha for the "Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan"—the name Mullah Omar grandiloquently gave his regime in Kabul before its 2001 downfall. Afghan President Hamid Karzai responded by shutting down negotiations with the U.S. over post-2014 security cooperation.

Now the U.S. finds itself in an amazing position. Merely to get the Taliban to the table for a bogus peace process, the administration agreed at Pakistan's urging to let Mullah Omar come to the table on his owns terms: no acceptance of the Afghan Constitution, no cease-fire with international forces, not even a formal pledge to never again allow Afghanistan to become a haven for international terrorism. The U.S. also agreed, according to Pakistani sources, to allow the terrorist Haqqani network—whose exploits include the 2011 siege of the U.S. Embassy in Kabul—a seat at the table.

Yet having legitimized Haqqani and given the Taliban everything it wanted in exchange for nothing, the U.S. finds itself being dumped by its own client government in Kabul, which can always turn to Iran as a substitute patron. Incredible: no peace, no peace process, no ally, no leverage and no moral standing, all in a single stroke. John Kerry is off to quite a start.

What's happening in Afghanistan is of a piece with the larger pattern of U.S. diplomacy. Iraq? The administration made the complete withdrawal of our troops a cornerstone of its first-term foreign policy, and now finds itself surprised that Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki won't lift a finger to prevent Iranian cargo planes from overflying his airspace en route to resupplying Bashar Assad's military. Syria? President Obama spent two years giving the country's civil war the widest berth, creating the power vacuum in which Iran, Hezbollah and Russia may soon achieve their strategic goals.

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Stephens' discussion of Snowden has been overtaken a bit by events. Snowden may be under arrest in Moscow, being interrogated and having his laptops stripped from him. More on that later. I'm just watching CNN and Fox News to keep up with developments.

How #Snowden Outfoxed Everyone

From Robin Abcarian, at the Los Angeles Times, "How Edward Snowden managed to outfox everyone":

I hate to say this. Well, maybe I don’t.

It appears that Edward Snowden, the 30-year-old computer analyst hiding in broad daylight, has managed not only to throw a wrench into U.S. foreign policy, but to outfox the very national security apparatus whose overreach he warned against.

It’s pretty astonishing that our government can figure out a way to vacuum up our every phone call, email and text message, but can’t get its hands on Snowden, who left Hong Kong for Russia on Sunday, and may be there still, as he figures out how to make his way to what he has (inexplicably) described as a democratic nation for asylum.

Republican South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham put his finger on it when he told Fox News on Sunday that “The freedom trail is not exactly China-Russia-Cuba-Venezuela.” (I guess somewhere along the line, Iceland dropped off Snowden’s list.)

   In New Delhi during a three-day visit to India, Secretary of State John Kerry sarcastically called Russia and China “bastions of Internet freedom” and admonished governments that have helped or may help Snowden remain out of the grasp of American authorities.

“There would be, without any question, some effect and impact on the relationship, and consequences,” Kerry said, according to my colleague Henry Chu.  “I’d urge them to live within the law. It’s in the interest of everyone.”

Still, one has to wonder why it took the government until Sunday to revoke Snowden’s passport, as the AP reported . It may not have mattered in the long run, but why wait two weeks to take that step?

When Snowden left Hong Kong, according to a detailed New York Times story posted Monday http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/25/world/asia/snowden-departure-from-hong-kong.html?pagewanted=1&hp, he was allowed to pass through normal airport checkpoints, despite his annulled passport.

 The story also said that Snowden decided to leave Hong Kong after attorneys there advised him that he might not be able to remain free on bail while fighting extradition to the U.S. If he were incarcerated during that time, they said, he would probably not have his computer. Giving up his computer, the attorney said  would be “totally intolerable.” (Forget waterboarding. Confiscate a 30-year-old’s computer and watch him beg for mercy.)

One also wonders why the feds revealed Friday that Snowden had been indicted on three felonies, including two charges under the 1917 Espionage Act, which made it likely, in the view of some foreign policy experts, that countries antagonistic to the United States (i.e. Cuba and Venezuela) would not be inclined to respect the State Department’s notice advising governments that Snowden should not be allowed transit to or through their countries.

In any case, as this amazing story continues, in slow motion, like a global version of the famous white Bronco chase, the Obama administration has itself to blame for this mess.

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PREVIOUSLY: "Edward Snowden's Mysterious Flight to Cuba."

IMAGE CREDIT: Michelle Fields.

How Everyone Feels About Edward #Snowden

GIFs, at BuzzFeed.

Edward Snowden's Mysterious Flight to Cuba

Folks thought that dude boarded an Aeroflot jet to Havana, but there was no sign of him when the thing landed, making the media entourage look like a bunch of blithering idiots.

Here's WikiLeaks' statement:

And at Mother Jones, "WikiLeaks: We Know Where Snowden Is, But We're Not Telling You."

WikiLeaks statements on Snowden asylum | SBS http://t.co/2HjWAXCr6i

— WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) June 25, 2013

And at the New Yorker, "Demonizing Edward Snowden: Which Side Are You On?" (via Memeorandum).

Prosecutors Seek Life in Prison for Bradley Manning

Screw this guy.

Make sure he gets a fair trial, sure. Other than that, screw him.

At LAT, "Prosecutors look to closely link Bradley Manning and Julian Assange":

FT. MEADE, Md. — Government prosecutors seeking life in prison for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning opened his court-martial Monday closely linking the young, nondescript enlistee from Oklahoma with the outsized Julian Assange, head of the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website who used his world stage to post hundreds of thousands of Manning’s purloined documents in the largest leak of U.S. classified material in the nation’s history.

Army Cpt. Joe Morrow, prosecuting Manning on 21 charges, including endangering the U.S. and aiding the enemy, said Manning downloaded and sent to WikiLeaks more than 700,000 classified materials after the short, bespectacled Manning and the silver-haired media celebrity Assange quietly exchanged personal contact information and crafted Internet chat logs to expose the deepest secrets in the fight against terrorism and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

That partnership, Morrow and other Army prosecutors alleged, blossomed to one where the unlikely pair discussed their own attempts at secrecy even as Manning methodically flipped documents to Assange and the WikiLeaks editor-in-chief routinely posted the material – including State Department cables, assessments of terror captives, prisoner interrogation videos and U.S. evaluations of foreign allies.

“These were massive, massive downloads,” Morrow said. “Packaged and out the door to WikiLeaks in some instances in a matter of minutes.”

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Bradley Manning Pleads Guilty in WikiLeaks Case

Here's the report at Guardian UK, "Manning plea statement: Americans had a right to know 'true cost of war'":

After admitting guilt in 10 of 22 charges, soldier reveals how he came to share classified documents with WikiLeaks and talks of 'bloodlust' of US helicopter crew.

There was no "bloodlust" of the helicopter crew. No matter what people think about forcing greater transparency from government --- and no doubt that's a worthy objective --- the WikiLeaks video was designed to do one thing: discredit the United States government and delegitimize American military operations in Iraq and around the world. The whole campaign of lies surrounding the release of that video was the epitome of left-wing evil. Screw Bradley Manning and his progressive enablers. Here's hoping he dies in prison.

Also at the Washington Post, "Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 lesser charges, explains motive."

And at Twitchy, "Bradley Manning pleads guilty to 10 charges, Michael Moore hails as hero."