Posted: Thursday, July 25, 2013 12:33 pm
Updated: 1:22 pm, Thu Jul 25, 2013
Associated Press

... Maj. Ashden Fein said the former intelligence analyst in Iraq was not the troubled and naive soldier defense attorneys have made him out to be. Fein displayed a smiling photo of Manning from 2010 _ when he was giving sensitive material to WikiLeaks _ and said "this is a gleeful, grinning Pfc. Manning" who sent battlefield reports to WikiLeaks, accompanied by the message: "Have a good day" ...

"The flag meant nothing to him," Fein said ...

"Hilary Clinton, and several thousand diplomats around the world are going to have a heart attack," Manning wrote to Lamo in a chat cited by Fein ...

http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/news/national/article_929e5203-a7ef-58e7-8e8f-919a0d4d88b3.html

Accused WikiLeaker accused of aiding the enemy, could face life in prison
By Matthew Hay Brown, The Baltimore Sun
1:28 p.m. EDT, July 25, 2013

A military prosecutor told a judge Thursday that Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning sought to "guarantee his fame" by giving hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks to publish online.

Army Maj. Ashton Fein, delivering the government's closing argument in the court-martial of Manning, said the former intelligence analyst knew from his training the harm that could be caused by releasing classified material. Fein said Manning knew that Osama bin Laden, al-Qaida and its affiliate in Iraq used the Internet to gather intellgence.

But the soldier cared only about himself, Fein told Army Col. Denise Lind, and proceeded with the "wholesale and indiscriminate compromise" of the sensitive informtion ...

Fein said Manning was arrogant and disloyal. He said the soldier researched WikiLeaks and the kinds of materials the group sought to publish, and then searched government networks for those materials ...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-bradley-manning-closing-arguments-20130725,0,5171611.story

Military court hears closing arguments in case which sees Manning face 21 counts relating to leaking of 700,000 documents
Ed Pilkington at Fort Meade
Thursday 25 July 2013 13.25 EDT

... In closing arguments, that were likely to last more than three hours, Major Ashden Fein, the lead prosecution lawyer, portrayed Manning as an individual motivated to seek fame by indiscriminately releasing massive amounts of US state secrets to the open-information website. He said the intelligence analyst was fully trained to know that by divulging classified information to a website, it would become readily accessible to enemy groups including al-Qaida.

"He delivered hundreds of thousands of documents ready-to-use to WikiLeaks, he delivered them for notoriety … He searched for as much information as he knew would guarantee his fame, information that he knew that WikiLeaks wanted to publicly release," Fein told the court ...

The prosecutor drew on the testimony of more than 80 state witnesses to attempt to show that the Army private was fully aware of the consequences of his actions. Fein screened training presentations that Manning had been shown during his induction as an intelligence analyst that explained various classification levels and his own personal responsibility for guarding the secrets.

"He was trained that the enemy used the internet, and anything that the enemy used against the United States should be protected. He had actual knowledge that the enemies of the US used the internet and WikiLeaks to gather information to be used against this country," Fein said ...

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/25/bradley-manning-notoriety-closing-remarks

By Richard A. Serrano
July 25, 2013, 9:55 a.m.

... “WikiLeaks was merely the platform that Pfc. Manning used to make sure all the information was available to the world, including the enemies of the United States,” said Maj. Ashden Fein in closing arguments at the end of Manning’s trial here. “Pfc. Manning deliberately disclosed compromised information to the world” ...

“He understood what he taught others,” the prosecutor said. “He knew releasing such information on the Internet would be in the hands of terrorists and other adversaries of this nation” ...

http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-bradley-manning-wikileaks-trial-20130725,0,3787023.story

By Associated Press
Jul 25, 2013, at 8:54 AM
Updated on 7/25/13 at 10:20 AM

FORT MEADE, Md. — A military judge is refusing to dismiss theft charges against an Army private who leaked reams of classified information to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.

Col. Denise Lind ruled Thursday in the court-martial of Pfc. Bradley Manning. She said prosecutors presented some evidence to support the charges.

The theft charges are part of a larger case against Manning, who is charged with aiding the enemy, which carries a possible sentence of up to life in prison ...

http://www.tulsaworld.com/article.aspx/WikiLeaks_trial_Judge_wont_dismiss_theft_charges_in/20130725_13_0_FORTME267887?subj=298