Jay Leiderman on Voice of Russia Radio Discussing the Bradley Manning Trial

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Afternoon Show   →   Opinion: Manning trial is about 'the public's right to know what their government is up to'

Tags: Politics, Interviews, US, Wikileaks, Bradley Manning

Rob Sachs

Jun 3, 2013 14:56

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WASHINGTON -- The Bradley Manning trial began Monday at Fort Meade, MD. In February, Manning pleaded guilty to lesser charges that could result in 20 years behind bars, but prosecutors are hoping for an "aiding the enemy" charge that could result in life behind bars.

Voice of Russia's Rob Sachs talks with Jay Leiderman, a lawyer based in California who often represents those in the internet hacking community

http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/70924886/114960376.html 

Please visit the Bradley Manning Support Network to learn more about the case: http://www.bradleymanning.org/

“If you had free reign over classified networks… and you saw incredible things, awful things… things that belonged in the public domain, and not on some server stored in a dark room in Washington DC… what would you do?”

“God knows what happens now.  Hopefully worldwide discussion, debates, and reforms… I want people to see the truth… because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.”

-Quotes from an online chat attributed to Bradley Manning

Nobel Peace Prize nominee PFC Bradley Manning, a 25-year-old Army intelligence analyst, who released the Collateral Murder video, that shows the killing of unarmed civilians and two Reuters journalists, by a US Apache helicopter crew in Iraq. Manning also shared documents known as the Afghan War Diary, the Iraq War Logs, and series of embarrassing US diplomatic cables. These documents were published by the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, and they have illuminated such issues as the true number and cause of civilian casualties in Iraq, along with a number of human rights abuses by U.S.-funded contractors and foreign militaries, and the role that spying and bribes play in international diplomacy. Given the war crimes exposed by these documents,  PFC Bradley Manning should be given a medal of honor.

Read more about Bradley Mannning here.

Jay Leiderman on Voice of Russia Radio 29 January 2013

Voice Of Russia Radio

The Afternoon Show

Show host: Rob Sachs

Jay, Andrew "Weev" Aurenheimer and Rob Sachs talked about free information on the internet, the persecutions of Aaron Swartz, Weev and Bradley Manning, and scrapping the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (See e.g.; 18 USC section 1030) such that we can start fresh with a sensible crimes computer law.  

Check it out: 

Afternoon Show   →   Hacktivist: Swartz’ Death Symbolizes ‘Prosecutorial Overreach’ in US

http://voicerussia.com/radio_broadcast/70924886/102900548.html 

Reps. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) and Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) wrote a letter to the Justice Department and asked why the department was pursuing Swartz and what was the nature of the prosecution. In addition, they asked if Swartz’ known association with the opposition to SOPA was among the factors considered. 

Host Rob Sachs spoke with Andrew Auernheimer, an internet hacktivist also known by the name Weev, and Jay Leiderman, a California-based attorney who represents notorious hacktivists like Anonymous, to talk about Swartz’ death and the reaction from the hacktivist community.

Weev calls Massachusetts US Attorney Carmen Ortiz a "seditious whore" - and that's not even the most interesting part of the interview.  


And, just for fun, and because this is a Voice of Russia interview, a picture Jay took in St. Petersburg Russia inside the political prison Peter and Paul Fortress.  The picture is of the cell once occupied by Aleksandr Ilich Ulianov, the older brother of Vladimir Ilich (Ulainov) Lenin.  It somehow seemed appropriate.