The original Charge Sheet for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is appended below. There are two charges. Charge I has four (4) specifications, and Charge II has (8) specifications.
The source for this document and comments is:
http://www.bradleymanning.org/3163/charge-sheet-html/
Bradley Manning Charge Sheet
CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 92
SPECIFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.
SPECIFICATION 2: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.
SPECIFICATION 3: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-6(k), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully introducing a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation onto his personal computer, a non-secure information system.
SPECIFICATION 4: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 3 April 2010, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, violate a lawful general regulation, to wit: Paragraph 4-5(a)(3), Army Regulation 25-2, dated 24 October 2007, by wrongfully adding unauthorized software to a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer.
CHARGE II: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 134
SPECFICATION 1: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, have unauthorized possession of photographs relating to the national defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the video, or cause the video to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 793(e), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 2: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of national defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the video, or cause the video to be communicated, delivered and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 3: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 13 January 2010 and on or about 19 February 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of foreign relations, to wit: a classified United States Department of State cable titled “Reykjavik 13,” and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the cable, or cause the cable to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive it, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 4: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 24 May 2010, knowingly exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information that has been determined by the United States Government pursuant to an Executive Order or statute to require protection against unauthorized disclosure for reasons of foreign relations, to wit: more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables, and did willfully communicate, deliver and transmit the cables, or cause the cables to be communicated, delivered, and transmitted, to a person not entitled to receive them, with reason to believe that such information could be used to the injury of the United States or the advantage of any foreign nation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(1), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 5: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of Defense, to wit: a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq, on or about 12 July 2007, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 6: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, between on or about 13 January 2010 and on or about 19 February 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of State, to wit: a classified cable titled “Reykjavik 13,” in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 7: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, on divers occasions, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from an the United States Department of State, to wit: more than 150,000 diplomatic cables, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.
SPECIFICATION 8: In that Private First Class Bradley E. Manning, U.S. Army, did, at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq, on divers occasions, between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010, intentionally exceed his authorized access on a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer and obtain information from the United States Department of Defense, to wit: a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation, in violation of 18 U.S. Code Section 1030(a)(2), such conduct being prejudicial to good order and discipline in the armed forces and being of a nature to bring discredit upon the armed forces.



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The Bradley Manning Charge Sheet seems important enough to be included among the Manning Resources (Timeline, Key Articles, Merged Chat Logs, Interview Transcripts) at FDL. It does not appear to be included on the Timeline or among the Key Articles, so maybe it could be listed an an independent resource “Charge Sheet”.
There is a discussion of the Charge Sheet at the following FDL address:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2010/07/06/wikileaks-leaker-bradley-manning-finally-charged/
For all that is said in this charge sheet, none of it seems to justify solitary confinement and a host of “prisoner of war” type treatments.
I have to agree with that. It makes no sense and is being looked upon by the world.
None of the documents were classified as Top Secret. Most of the information was already widely known aside from the US public. As far as the video goes, I don’t see how that would be a harm to the military from what we already know.
We know that no matter what the President says the changes to the mission are, the troops on the ground still do the same things.
Tom Cruise confronts Jack Nicholson, the prototypical jarhead, under cross-examination, who is antagonized into blurting out: “You can’t handle the truth.” And so the American people can’t handle the truth about our military actions in Iraq. Yet, all the evidence is there; e.g., “6o Minutes” often rides along with the troops — who kick down doors at 3AM, round up the men folk, trundle them off to be tortured, while the wives and daughters scream in horror. Or, in Falooja, where US troops used white phosphorus on the remainder civilian population unable to get out of town in time. It’s all been revealed already. It’s just when you see how screwed up it really is again and again, the fear is that the public may wake up and demand we end the madness and bring the troops home.
Thanks for this post Humanist; I added the link to the Wikileaks article on my blog!
Comparison of Manning Charge Sheet and Manning/Lamo Chat Logs
There are currently two charges and 12 specifications, listed below with the type of information involved, six of which types of information are unique.
1. Classified: Video of Baghdad airstrike
2. Classified: 50+ U.S. DOS cables
3. Classified: MS PowerPoint presentation
4. Adding unauthorized software to a SIPR network computer
5. Classified: Video of Baghdad airstrike
6. Classified: Video of Baghdad airstrike
7. Classified: U.S. DOS cable titled “Reykjavik 13”
8. Classified: 50+ U.S. DOS cables
9. Classified: Video of Baghdad airstrike
10. Classified: U.S. DOS cable titled “Reykjavik 13”
11. 150,000+ U.S. DOS cables
12. Classified: MS PowerPoint presentation
There are seven unique types of information that are mentioned in the released portions of the complete chat logs, as listed below.
1. Iraqi war event log
2. Classified U.S. DOS cable from Reykjavik
3. Video of Gharani airstrike in Afghanistan
4. Video of Baghdad airstrike
5. 260,000+ U.S. DOS cables
6. Afghanistan full report [Edit: war event log]
7. JTF GTMO papers (the “Gitmo” papers)
In the Manning/Lamo chat logs, Manning said that he did “forward information to group of FOI activists”. Maybe coincidentally, one of the persons listed with Manning’s PGP Public Key is reportedly a prominent Freedom of Information (FOI) activist. Separately, Lamo is reported to have said that five persons at MIT had their laptops confiscated by the U.S. Government authorities after he had reported Manning to the authorities.
Bradley Manning Charge Sheet — Excerpts
CHARGE I: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 92
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010,
at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq,
SPECIFICATION 1:
a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq,
SPECIFICATION 2:
more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables
SPECIFICATION 3:
a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation
SPECIFICATION 4:
adding unauthorized software to a Secret Internet Protocol Router network computer.
CHARGE II: VIOLATION OF THE UCMJ, ARTICLE 134
at or near Contingency Operating Station Hammer, Iraq,
SPECFICATION 1:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010,
classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq,
SPECIFICATION 2:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010,
a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq,
SPECIFICATION 3:
on or about 19 February 2010,
a classified United States Department of State cable titled “Reykjavik 13,”
SPECIFICATION 4:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 24 May 2010,
more than 50 classified United States Department of State cables
SPECIFICATION 5:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 5 April 2010,
a classified video of a military operation filmed at or near Baghdad, Iraq,
SPECIFICATION 6:
between on or about 13 January 2010 and on or about 19 February 2010,
a classified cable titled “Reykjavik 13,”
SPECIFICATION 7:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010,
more than 150,000 diplomatic cables
SPECIFICATION 8:
between on or about 19 November 2009 and on or about 27 May 2010,
a classified Microsoft Office PowerPoint presentation.
Merged Manning/Lamo Chat Logs — Excerpts
a database of half a million events during the iraq war… from 2004 to 2009… with reports, date time groups, lat-lon locations, casualty figures… ? or 260,000 state department cables from embassies and consulates all over the world,
Classified cable from US Embassy Reykjavik on Icesave dated 13 Jan 2010
Manning: they also caught wind that he [Assange at WikiLeaks.org] had a video… of the Gharani airstrike in afghanistan, which he has, but hasn’t decrypted yet… the production team was actually working on the Baghdad strike though, which was never really encrypted
(2:16:22 PM) Manning: he’s got the whole 15-6 for that incident… so it wont just be video with no context
(2:16:55 PM) Manning: but its not nearly as damning… it was an awful incident, but nothing like the baghdad one
(2:17:59 PM) Manning: the investigating officers left the material unprotected, sitting in a directory on a centcom.smil.mil
(2:18:03 PM) Manning: server
(2:18:56 PM) Manning: but they did zip up the files, aes-256, with an excellent password… so afaik it hasn’t been broken yet
(2:19:12 PM) Manning: 14+ chars…
(02:05:12 AM) Manning: its almost bookworthy in itself, how this played
(02:07:41 AM) Manning: event occurs in 2007, i watch video in 2009 with no context, do research, forward information to group of FOI activists, more research occurs, video is released in 2010, those involved come forward to discuss event, i witness those involved coming forward to discuss publicly, even add them as friends on FB… without them knowing who i am
(02:14:36 AM) Lamo: So you have these stored now?
(02:14:54 AM) Manning: i had two computers… one connected to SIPRNET the other to JWICS…
(02:15:07 AM) Manning: no, they’re government laptops
(02:15:18 AM) Manning: they’ve been zerofilled
(02:15:22 AM) Manning: because of the pullout
(02:15:57 AM) Manning: evidence was destroyed… by the system itself
(02:16:10 AM) Lamo: So how would you deploy the cables? If at all.
(02:16:26 AM) Manning: oh no… cables are reports
(02:16:34 AM) Lamo: ah
(02:16:38 AM) Manning: State Department Cable = a Memorandum (
02:16:48 AM) Lamo: embassy cables?
(02:16:54 AM) Manning: yes
(02:17:00 AM) Manning: 260,000 in all
(02:17:10 AM) Manning: i mentioned this previously
(02:17:14 AM) Lamo: yes
(02:17:31 AM) Lamo: stored locally, or retreiveable?
(02:17:43 AM) Manning: i dont have a copy anymore
02:43:33 PM) Manning: also, theres god awful accountability of IP addresses…
(02:44:47 PM) Manning: the network was upgraded, and patched up so many times… and systems would go down, logs would be lost… and when moved or upgraded… hard drives were zeroed
(02:45:12 PM) Manning: its impossible to trace much on these field networks…
(02:46:10 PM) Manning: and who would honestly expect so much information to be exfiltrated from a field network?
02:47:07 PM) Manning: the CM video came from a server in our domain! and not a single person noticed
(02:47:21 PM) Lamo: CM? [Edit: CM may be “Collateral Murder”]
(02:48:17 PM) Manning: Apache Weapons Team video of 12 JUL 07 airstrike on Reuters Journos… some sketchy but fairly normal street-folk… and civilians
(03:07:53 PM) Manning: i watched that video cold, for instance
(03:10:32 PM) Manning: at first glance… it was just a bunch of guys getting shot up by a helicopter… no big deal… about two dozen more where that came from right… but something struck me as odd with the van thing… and also the fact it was being stored in a JAG officer’s directory… so i looked into it… eventually tracked down the date, and then the exact GPS co-ord… and i was like… ok, so thats what happened… cool… then i went to the regular internet… and it was still on my mind… so i typed into goog… the date, and the location… and then i see this http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/13/world/middleeast/13iraq.html
(03:11:07 PM) Manning: i kept that in my mind for weeks… probably a month and a half… before i forwarded it to [Wikileaks]
(03:11:54 PM) Manning: then there was the Finkel book
(03:12:16 PM) Manning: im almost certain he had a copy
(01:52:30 PM) Manning: funny thing is… we transffered so much data on unmarked CDs…
(01:52:42 PM) Manning: everyone did… videos… movies… music
(01:53:05 PM) Manning: all out in the open
(01:53:53 PM) Manning: bringing CDs too and from the networks was/is a common phenomeon
(01:54:14 PM) Lamo: is that how you got the cables out?
(01:54:28 PM) Manning: perhaps
(01:54:42 PM) Manning: i would come in with music on a CD-RW
(01:55:21 PM) Manning: labelled with something like “Lady Gaga”… erase the music… then write a compressed split file
(01:55:46 PM) Manning: no-one suspected a thing
(01:55:48 PM) Manning: =L kind of sad
(01:56:04 PM) Lamo: and odds are, they never will
(01:56:07 PM) Manning: i didnt even have to hide anything
(02:00:12 PM) Manning: everyone just sat at their workstations… watching music videos / car chases / buildings exploding… and writing more stuff to CD/DVD… the culture fed opportunities
(02:01:44 PM) Manning: hardest part is arguably internet access… uploading any sensitive data over the open internet is a bad idea… since networks are monitored for any insurgent/terrorist/militia/criminal types
(02:01:52 PM) Lamo: tor?
(02:02:13 PM) Manning: tor + ssl + sftp
(02:02:33 PM) Lamo: *nod*
(02:03:05 PM) Lamo: not quite how i might do it, but good
Edit: Tor = untraceable anonymizer; ssl = secure sockets layer; sftp = secure file transfer protocol.
04:32:05 PM) Manning: oh, the JTF GTMO papers… Assange has those too
(04:32:16 PM) Lamo: Read it.
(04:33:21 PM) Lamo: Anything else interesting on his table, as a former collector of interesting .com info?
(04:33:44 PM) Manning: idk… i only know what i provide him xD
(04:34:14 PM) Lamo: what do you consider the highlights?
(04:35:31 PM) Manning: The Gharani airstrike videos and full report, Iraq war event log, the “Gitmo Papers”, and State Department cable database
Charge Sheet and Chat Logs — Recapitulation
The two charges against Bradley Manning consist of 12 specifications that list six unique types of information, listed below.
1. Classified: Video of Baghdad airstrike
2. Classified: 50+ U.S. DOS cables
3. Classified: MS PowerPoint presentation
4. Adding unauthorized software to a SIPR network computer
5. Classified: U.S. DOS cable titled “Reykjavik 13”
6. 150,000+ U.S. DOS cables
The released portions of the complete Manning/Lamo chat logs mention seven unique types of information, listed below.
1. Iraqi war event log
2. Classified U.S. DOS cable from Reykjavik [Charge Sheet]
3. Video of Gharani airstrike in Afghanistan
4. Video of Baghdad airstrike [Charge Sheet]
5. 260,000+ U.S. DOS cables [Charge Sheet?]
6. Afghanistan full report [Edit: war event log]
7. JTF GTMO papers (the “Gitmo” papers)
Adrian Lamo reportedly said that he was not an “informer” for the U.S. Government in this matter, but rather was a “witness”. It appears from the released chat logs that Lamo might be able to testify as a government witness at a court martial of Bradley Manning only about three unique types of information:
(1) Reykjavik Cable,
(2) Baghdad airstrike,
(3) Possibly some of the U.S. DOS cables in Charge Sheet.