NYT’s next? - Nope.
US authorities have stepped up their efforts to prosecute Julian Assange by offering Bradley Manning, the American soldier allegedly responsible for leaking hundreds of thousands of government documents, the possibility of a plea bargain if he names the Wiki-Leaks founder as a fellow conspirator.
This is hardly a surprise, but after locking up Bradley Manning in solitary confinement for seven months - a condition that much of the world has deemed to be torture - and looking for ways to use a computer hacking law to charge Julian Assange, rumors are that officials have offered Bradley Manning a plea deal, in which he would claim that Assange “conspired” with him to get and leak the documents. From all the info that’s come out already, there’s been little to suggest that there was any actual conspiring, but it appears that our Justice Department has decided (incorrectly) that Julian Assange is the more important target than Bradley Manning, and so it wants to bring Assange down.
Nachtrag: Der Guardian veröffentlicht den aktuellen Vorwurfsstand gegen Assange.
Somewhat unrelated, look at her smile - I mean look at it… 🙂
