PFC Bradley Manning has pled guilty to releasing 700,000 classified documents, which WikiLeaks then published on the Internet — the largest intelligence breach in American history. At the time, Manning worked in what's called a "Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility" at Forward Operating Base Hammer near Baghdad. He's now facing a court martial on espionage charges at Fort Mead, Maryland. Critics say he betrayed his country. His defenders are framing the case, in part, as a challenge to what they call excessive classification of information the public has a right to know. Is he a whistle-blower or a traitor who deserves life in prison?
The Trial of Bradley Manning for WikiLeaks Leaks
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Credits
Guests:
Arun Rath - PBS's 'Frontline' and PRI's 'The World' -
@ArunRath,
Trevor Timm - Electronic Frontier Foundation -
@TrevorTimm,
David Rivkin - BakerHostetler -
@DavidRivkin,
Marc Ambinder - The Week -
@marcambinder
Host:
Warren Olney
Producers:
Christian Bordal,
Katie Cooper,
Evan George,
Sonya Geis