Until recently, nobody knew who Bradley Manning was. Now he's all over the media, having pleaded guilty to ten charges (and not guilty to 12 others) before a Maryland military judge (see his leaked testimony here) for "misusing classified data," the unlawful possession of classified material, exposing a cache of files, including videos, military logs and 250,000 State Department cables, and the transfer of this material to WikiLeaks. These charges carry a maximum sentence of 20 years in jail. "The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public," he told the judge. Manning is also a central figure--along with WikiLeaks' Julian Assange--in Alex Gibney's upcoming documentary "We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks," which debuted at Sundance, where I interviewed the filmmaker. Universal's Focus World subsidiary will open the film theatrically May 24 and on VOD in June. Gibney scoured the internet for...
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