A huge database of troop names and email addresses an Army private allegedly downloaded to a personal computer could be used by foreign adversaries to launch cyberattacks on service members, a government witness said Monday as the trial of Pfc. Bradley Manning entered its third week. Full story
Ed Pilkington discusses the Snowden leak and the ensuing "Alice in Wonderland world" aftermath.
The mountain of classified material Army Pfc. Bradley Manning gave to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks revealed sensitive information about military operations and tactics, including code words and the name at least one enemy target, according to evidence the government presented Tuesday. Full story
Pentagon Papers leaker Daniel Ellsberg calls the revelations by a government contractor on U.S. secret surveillance programs the most "significant disclosure" in the nation's history. Full story
Internationally, the Bradley Manning trial is seen as a test of U.S. commitment to freedom of the press and military justice. Full story
In November 2012, after nearly a dozen times photographing the routine arrival and departure of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning for his pretrial hearings outside a courthouse on a Maryland military post, something caught me off-guard. He smiled. Full story
PJ Crowley discusses the Bradley Manning trial and if this was a case of a "humanitarian" or someone with intention to aid the enemy.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who leaked military secrets when he was 22 years old, thought naively that he could “make a difference,” his lawyer said. But the military prosecutor at the trial said Manning’s leak of classified information put information “into the hands of the enemy.” NBC’s Brian Willi
Elizabeth Goitein, co-director of the Liberty and National Security Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, talks with Rachel Maddow about the U.S. government's case against Bradley Manning and the nature of his defense.
Daniel Ellsberg, the Pentagon Papers whistleblower, discusses the charges leveled against Bradley Manning. Manning's trial for leaking information to Wikileaks began Monday, with a particularly interesting charge of aiding the enemy.
Journalist/Filmmaker Jeremy Scahill joins Martin Bashir to discuss his new film “Dirty Wars” – about the expanding secret wars America engages in across the world – and about the Bradley Manning he knew as Manning’s trial on “aiding the enemy” begins.
Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, center, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Monday, June 17, 2013, after the start of the third week of his court martial. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. He faces up to life in pris
U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning departs after day two of his court martial at Fort Meade, Maryland June 4, 2013. The court-martial of the soldier charged with using the WikiLeaks website for the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history heads into a second day on Tuesday,
