Bradley Manning's case may be an ominous precedent that will restrict freedom of speech and transform the internet into a impaired zone and unlike the unfettered space it is today.
Daniel Ellsberg, who in 1971 was subjected to an aborted trial for
leaking the Pentagon Papers on the Vietnam War to the New York Times,
said that the Manning prosecution was far tougher than anything that he
had endured.
"This is part of Obama's overall policy of
criminalising investigative reporting on national security," he said.
"If the government has its way, it will become very hard in future to
expose official corruption or disclose information in the public
interest other than leaks made by the administration itself."
The access to the war logs is the critical component of the government's case in which allegedly Bin Laden himself instructed his followers to download.
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