By Amy Davidson
Among the stranger aspects of the court martial of Bradley Manning, the Army private who is accused of giving hundreds of thousands of classified files to WikiLeaks, is the prosecution’s idea of what it means to aid our enemies. This is one of the most serious charges against Manning. In an opening statement, Captain Joe Morrow, an Army prosecutor, promised that “the evidence will show that the accused knowingly gave intelligence to the enemy.” Morrow proceeded to say, according to a preliminary transcript assembled by trial observers, that Manning and other soldiers had been warned about WikiLeaks in their briefings: he should have “understood the nature of the organization.” Does that mean that WikiLeaks was the enemy Manning spoke to and helped? Not quite.
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