It’s been more than three years since Bradley Manning released sensitive materials, including videos of airstrikes and hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables, causing an international uproar. This afternoon, the 25-year-old Army private met his legal fate.
Pfc. Bradley Manning, the former Army intelligence officer who was branded as both a whistle-blower and a traitor after he sent 700,000 secret government documents to WikiLeaks, was acquitted Tuesday of aiding the enemy but convicted of other charges.
Manning was convicted of illegally releasing classified documents knowing they would be accessible to the enemy. Aiding the enemy was the most serious charge and carried a potential life sentence.
The verdict was handed down by Col. Denise Lind, the judge at Manning’s court-martial at Fort Meade, Md. Manning will be sentenced later.
Note, the six criminal charges come on top of 10 other charges to which Manning had already pleaded guilty.









