Thursday, April 18, 2013

Court rejects plea for access to Bradley Manning trial records

Josh Gerstein:

"The decision of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces came on a bid by journalists to gain access to legal filings and court orders in the court martial of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who's accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of military reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.

In a sharply divided ruling, the appeals court ruled, 3-2, that it had no jurisdiction to consider such a complaint from parties other than the government or the defendant in a particular case."

Read at Politico | <a href="http://mys.tc/2m3">http://mys.tc/2m3</a>

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