22-06-2010, 04:42 PM
(This post was last modified: 22-06-2010, 04:50 PM by Helen Reyes.)
Brad Manning's most obvious defense would be: "I didn't send anybody anything. Lamo doctored the chat logs. It may be true I misconstrued myself as a hacktivist to him to some extent." How would the court martial prove the material was moved, even in a closed courtroom, even giving prosecutors full intelligence intercepts?
Who knows, maybe this will somehow go down in history as the first trial that relied on chat logs alone to convict someone. I doubt it though. Chat logs are basically a text copy/paste, not evidence.
And Keith is totally correct, they know exactly where he is. Sweden is my guess, because he has basic legal protection there as a journalist, whistleblower and leaker. He must've got his passport back in Australia, which the US would know about certainly. He's probably in Goteborg, Malmo or Stockholm when he's not running down to Brussels.
(Incidentally, Jules Verne wrote a book about a tunnel under Iceland, which might've been based on an old Norwegian story about two canoers who got sucked into the hollow earth and lived to tell the tale.)
Who knows, maybe this will somehow go down in history as the first trial that relied on chat logs alone to convict someone. I doubt it though. Chat logs are basically a text copy/paste, not evidence.
And Keith is totally correct, they know exactly where he is. Sweden is my guess, because he has basic legal protection there as a journalist, whistleblower and leaker. He must've got his passport back in Australia, which the US would know about certainly. He's probably in Goteborg, Malmo or Stockholm when he's not running down to Brussels.
(Incidentally, Jules Verne wrote a book about a tunnel under Iceland, which might've been based on an old Norwegian story about two canoers who got sucked into the hollow earth and lived to tell the tale.)