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The Bradley Manning verdict is still bad news for the press

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“The public needs to awaken to the threat to its own freedoms from the Obama crackdown on leaks and, by extension, journalism and free speech itself. We are, more and more, a society where unaccountable people can commit unspeakable acts with impunity. They are creating a surveillance state that makes not just dissent, but knowledge itself, more and more dangerous. What we know about this is entirely due to leakers and their outlets. Ignorance is only bliss for the unaccountable.”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/30/the-bradley-manning-verdict-is-still-bad-news-for-the-press/

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Statement by Julian Assange on Verdict in Bradley Manning Court-Martial

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“Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with information, including five counts of ’espionage’. He now faces a maximum sentence of 136 years. The ’aiding the enemy’ charge has fallen away. It was only included, it seems, to make calling journalism ’espionage’ seem reasonable. It is not. Bradley Manning’s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower. This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent.”

http://wikileaks.org/Statement-by-Julian-Assange-on.html

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The Manning Show Trial: These Teachable Moments

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“I’m shocked — shocked! — that Colonel Denise Lind, the military judge who ruled in February that Bradley Manning could be tried on various charges even after being held prior to arraignment for more than five times the absolute longest time specified in the US Armed Forces’ ‘speedy trial’ rules, has now also ruled that Manning can be convicted of aiding an enemy that does not exist. Yes, you read that right: There’s only an ‘enemy’ to aid, in any legal sense, if the United States is at war, a state created by a congressional declaration. There’s been no such declaration since World War II. Lind had only one legal duty as judge in this case: To dismiss all charges.”

http://c4ss.org/content/20402

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Internet Society Statement on the Importance of Open Global Dialogue Regarding Online Privacy

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“The Internet Society has noted recent revelations regarding the apparent scope of U.S. government efforts to gather large amounts of end user information from U.S. Internet and telecom service providers for intelligence purposes. We are deeply concerned that the unwarranted collection, storage and potential correlation of user data will undermine many of the key principles and relationships of trust upon which the global Internet has been built. The Internet Society strongly believes that real security can only be realized within a broader context of trust and the respect of fundamental rights, such as privacy..”

http://www.internetsociety.org/news/internet-society-statement-importance-open-global-dialogue-regarding-online-privacy

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America has history when it comes to forcing down planes in defiance of international law

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“International law (and the Chicago Convention regulating air traffic) emphatically asserts freedom to traverse international airspace, but America tends to treat international law as binding on everyone except America (and Israel). Thus when Egypt did a deal with the Achille Lauro hijackers and sent them on a commercial flight to Tunis, US F-14 jets intercepted the plane in international airspace and forced it to land in Italy, where the hijackers were tried and jailed. In 1986 Israel forced down a Libyan commercial plane in the mistaken belief that PLO leaders were among its passengers, and the US vetoed UN security council condemnation.”

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jul/23/snowden-asylum-america-international-law

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Bob Higgs: Where’s the Outrage?

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“We have now reached a condition in which state authorities know an immense amount about the personal lives of virtually everyone in the U.S. and many foreigners, as well. Do people suppose that this access to personal information will be used only for the pursuit of terrorists? Anyone who has looked even superficially into previous government information-collection programs knows better. State authorities will, at minimum, employ the communications data and other personal information now at their fingertips to pursue various sorts of criminals, especially persons suspected of tax evasion. Moreover, they will almost certainly use the information for partisan political purposes.”

http://blog.independent.org/2013/07/16/wheres-the-outrage/

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Justin Raimondo: Is America a Free Country?

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“Jimmy Carter is making waves: ‘America does not have a functioning democracy at this point in time,’ he told a meeting of the American Bridge, held in Atlanta, when asked about Edward Snowden’s exposure of Washington’s secret global surveillance system. Carter’s previous statements about the Snowden affair were mildly supportive.  Yet this new statement goes way beyond that: it is a sweeping condemnation of the current regime. That a former US President would say such a thing has got to be the scariest public pronouncement I’ve heard since the Watergate era. What’s even scarier: Carter is right.”

http://original.antiwar.com/justin/2013/07/18/is-america-a-free-country-2/

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Judge, Jury, and Executioner: Questions on the Legality of Executive Assassination

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“We’ve ruled out the AUMF.  The Executive Order cited above hasn’t been rescinded.   And no one can cite any changes in the laws governing assassination.  But clearly, something has changed.  And if the law hasn’t changed, then it must necessarily be that those laws have been reinterpreted to mean something they didn’t mean before.  The question becomes – who reinterpreted them and by what authority did they do so?  The answer to the first half of that question is easy – the unelected lawyers acting on behalf of the Bush and Obama administrations reinterpreted them.  The second part is more difficult.”

http://libertycrier.com/judge-jury-and-executioner-questions-on-the-legality-of-executive-assassination/

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NDAA Indefinite Detention Reinstated by Appeals Court

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“The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the government Wednesday in vacating a permanent injunction sought by several prominent journalists and activists barring the enforcement of a provision of the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). In a 60-page decision, the court ruled against such an injunction additionally arguing that the case’s plaintiffs, which include Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and renowned linguist Noam Chomsky, among four others (collectively nicknamed ‘The Magnificent Seven’), do not have standing.”

http://www.longislandpress.com/2013/07/17/ndaa-indefinite-detention-challenge-shot-down-by-appeals-court/

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Government Attempts to Dismiss Lawsuit Over Wrongful Arrest, Psych Ward Detention of Facebook Marine

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“‘It’s bad enough that the government is targeting military veterans for expressing their discontent over America’s rapid transition to a police state, but for any government official to suggest that they shouldn’t be held accountable for violating a citizen’s rights on the grounds that they were unaware of the Constitution’s prohibitions makes a mockery of our so-called system of representative government,’ said John W. Whitehead, president of The Rutherford Institute and author of A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State.”

https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/on_the_front_lines/rutherford_institute_counters_government_attempt_to_dismiss_lawsuit_over_wr

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