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Manning Trial: WikiLeaks Lawyer Sees Spurious "Enemy" Claims &
Bid to Scare Whistleblowers   Michael Ratner, president emeritus
of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a lawyer to Julian
Assange and WikiLeaks. He returned last night from attending the
opening session of Bradley Manning’s trial at Fort Meade.  This
is viewer supported news  The military trial of Army
whistleblower Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland, began
Monday with the defense and prosecution presenting starkly
contrasting accounts. Manning is accused of giving a cache of
diplomatic cables and government documents to WikiLeaks in the
largest leak of state secrets in U.S. history. The military
prosecutor, Captain Joe Morrow, accused Manning of "dumping"
hundreds of thousands of documents "into the lap of the enemy,"
and painted a picture of close ties between Manning and
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Manning’