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A nonprofit news agency promoting social justice. Seeking answers to the question:
How do we make democracy work for the poor?
31 Jul 2013
WikiLeaks' attorney Michael Ratner responds to Tuesday’s (30 July) verdict in the Bradley Manning trial. Manning was found guilty of 20 charges in total, including espionage, but he was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge. "For him facing 136 years in jail for telling the American people what our government should have been telling us — about torture centers in Iraq, 20,000 extra civilians killed in Iraq — I find outrageous," Ratner says. "He shouldn’t be put on trial. He is a whistleblower. The people that should be put on trial are the people who actually did those human rights violations."
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