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April 27th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
“The defense motion to dismiss … is denied,” military Judge Colonel Denise
Lind said in a pretrial hearing, adding that if prosecutors could not prove
in the trial phase that Manning knew intelligence given to WikiLeaks would
reach enemy hands, the court would “provide appropriate motions.”
Manning’s attorney, David Coombs, had pressed the court to dismiss the charge.
Comparing Manning’s actions to that of a soldier speaking to a major
newspaper, he argued that without an intent to provide information to the
enemy, Manning’s actions constituted at most negligence.
The ruling was another blow for Manning, who made several appeals over three
days of pretrial hearings this week to reduce or dismiss all 22 charges
against him. Those motions were all rejected.
Aiding the enemy is a capital offense, but the prosecution has said it would
not seek the death penalty in Manning’s case if he is found guilty.
Prosecutors accuse Manning of downloading more than 700,000 classified or
confidential files from the military’s Secret Internet Protocol Router
Network, or SIPRNet, while serving in the Army’s 10th Mountain Division in
Iraq.
Manning also faces charges of stealing records belonging to the United States
and wrongfully causing them to be published on the Internet.
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