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The shocking treatment of Manning continues, and the trial is dogged
with all sorts of basic rights problems... one would have thought
that strict compliance with all laws would be the case, to ensure a
prosecution... but with a judge already giving time off an potential
sentence due to bad State behaviour, the matter is settled...
forgetting that any "compensation" would have to be proportional to
the acts and findings on the acts committed... seems like the
'court' has made up its mind if it can make such a ruling... such
legal idiocy... can there ever be a fair trial for someone subject
to torture or cruel inhumane and degrading punishment? What
surprises me is that this is an American... <br>
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<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</strong><br>
May 9, 2013<br>
2:32 PM</p>
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<p><strong>CONTACT: <a href="http://www.accuracy.org">Institute
for Public Accuracy (IPA)</a></strong></p>
<div>Sam Husseini, (202) 347-0020; or David Zupan, (541)
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<h2 class="node-title">Transcribing Bradley Manning’s Trial: Group
Tries to Ensure Transparency</h2>
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<p>WASHINGTON - May 9 - TREVOR TIMM, <a
href="mailto:%20trevor%20at%20pressfreedomfoundation.org">trevor
at pressfreedomfoundation.org</a>, <a
href="https://twitter.com/TrevorTimm">@TrevorTimm</a><br>
RAINEY REITMAN, <a
href="mailto:rainey%20at%20pressfreedomfoundation.org">rainey
at pressfreedomfoundation.org</a>, <a
href="https://twitter.com/RaineyReitman">@RaineyReitman</a><br>
Timm is co-founder and executive director of the <a
href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/">Freedom of the
Press Foundation</a>; Reitman is co-founder and chief
operations officer of the organization.</p>
<p>The group just <a
href="https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/05/freedom-press-foundation-crowd-funding-court-reporter-transcribe-bradley-manning">released
a statement</a> about their campaign to ensure a transcript
for the trial of Bradley Manning, scheduled to begin June 3: “As
has been documented by many media organizations, the pre-trial
hearings of Bradley Manning have been hampered by heavy-handed
government secrecy. Government briefs are not released to the
public, written rulings are rarely given to journalists, and
most importantly, there is no official transcript of the
proceedings. This has denied the public of opportunities for a
range of accurate, timely, and in-depth reporting on the trial.</p>
<p>“The Center for Constitutional Rights filed a First Amendment
lawsuit on behalf of a variety of news organizations and
journalists seeking timely access to court documents, but the
military court of appeals ruled in favor of continued secrecy.</p>
<p>“As PBS recounted recently, ‘Because there is no official court
record, the public is entirely dependent on the accounts of the
reporters on-scene — the few who can fit into the courtroom
making notes longhand, or the rest who report from the media
center, typing down words and details frantically and hoping
they don’t make any mistakes.’</p>
<p>“This campaign aims to fully fund a court stenographer, who
will be credentialed with a media organization and attend the
trial in the court’s media room. The court stenographer will
produce a transcript of the trial, and as soon as the
transcripts are available, the Freedom of the Press Foundation
will post them online for journalists and the public.</p>
<p>“‘Journalists covering Manning’s case face many Kafkaesque
obstacles, but nothing is more punitive than the government’s
refusal to provide a timely and accurate transcript. By funding
a court stenographer, we hope to help journalists in their
effort to report on the trial,’ said Laura Poitras, a
documentary filmmaker who serves on the board of directors of
Freedom of the Press Foundation and attended Manning’s Article
32 hearing.”</p>
<p>Reitman also just wrote the piece “<a
href="http://www.bradleymanning.org/featured/sf-pride-board-denies-public-access-to-public-hearing">SF
Pride Board Denies Public Access to Public Hearing</a>” about
SF Pride Board’s “recent decision to rescind Bradley Manning as
a grand marshal from the upcoming parade.”</p>
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<p>A nationwide consortium, the <a href="http://www.accuracy.org"
target="_blank">Institute for Public Accuracy</a> (IPA)
represents an unprecedented effort to bring other voices to the
mass-media table often dominated by a few major think tanks. IPA
works to broaden public discourse in mainstream media, while
building communication with alternative media outlets and
grassroots activists. </p>
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