The charge of "aiding the enemy" against Bradley #Manning is vindictive absurdity. Trawling the statute book in order to throw it at him.
.@profsarahj as is inventing the "material support to terrorism" charge, to retry people like Omar Khadr and silence dissenters
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@asteris a charge found retrospective and thus invalid by a US Court (re OBL's driver I think). -
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@profsarahj yup (Poitras' excellent film has the story); but it stuck with Omar Khadr, and scared him enough to plead guilty, as I recall -
@asteris David Hicks pleaded guilty too
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