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1. PRESIDENT MAKING CASE FOR MILITARY STRIKE

American retaliation for Syrian chemical use would send a "strong signal," he says.

2. QUESTIONS ARISE ABOUT STRENGTH OF US INTEL

The evidence linking Assad or his inner circle to the purported chemical weapons attack so far is no "slam dunk," officials tell the AP.

3. OBAMA: KING'S DREAM NOT YET REALITY

On the 50th anniversary of the civil rights leader's famous speech, the president also challenges new generations to seize the cause of racial equality.

4. HUNGRY FOR HIGHER PAY

Thousands of fast-food workers seeking better wages are set to stage walkouts in dozens of cities around the

5. WHO'S NOT HITTING THE ROAD

After rising for decades, total vehicle use in the U.S. ? the collective miles people drive ? peaked in 2007.

6. MONTANA JUDGE STANDS BY 30-DAY JAIL TERM FOR RAPIST

He has said the 14-year-old victim was as much in control as the former teacher who assaulted her. The girl later killed herself.

7. WHAT'S TOPS AMONG ILLEGAL DRUGS

It's pot. But a global survey also finds that addictions to painkillers like Vicodin, Oxycontin and codeine kill the most people.

8. DOCTOR: JACKSON SOUGHT PROPOFOL YEARS AGO

She says she refused the singer's late 1990s request, telling him the drug wasn't appropriate as a sleep aid.

9. HOW JOHNNY MANZIEL IS BEING PUNISHED

The QB, who signed autographs for memorabilia brokers, will be forced to sit out the first half of Texas A&M's season-opener Saturday against Rice.

10. JAMES BLAKE'S CAREER COMES TO A CLOSE

The American suffers a five-set loss to Croatia's Ivo Karlovic. Blake announced earlier that the U.S. Open would be his last pro tournament.

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Twerk, Selfie, Bitcoin, Others Added To Oxford Dictionary As Silicon Valley, Middle Schoolers Push English Language Forward

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Onyx says multiple parties engaged in takeover talks

By Bill Berkrot

(Reuters) - Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc said on Thursday that its process of seeking a buyer for the company is "ongoing with multiple parties engaged."

Onyx had previously rejected an unsolicited takeover offer from Amgen Inc as being too low.

Reuters, citing three people familiar with the process, reported on Wednesday that Amgen was in advanced discussions to buy Onyx at an increased offer of $130 per share, or about $9.5 billion, with the two sides working toward a possible announcement as soon as within the next week.

On a conference call with analysts, Onyx Chief Executive Anthony Coles said "multiple parties" were still involved in the takeover talks.

He added that the outcome and timetable of the sale process was dependent on a review by the Onyx board of directors.

Onyx also reported a smaller-than-expected second quarter loss as revenue more than doubled on sales of cancer drugs, including its new multiple myeloma treatment Kyprolis.

The biotechnology company said it had a net loss of $53.2 million, or 73 cents per share, half the loss of $106 million, or $1.65 per share, a year ago.

Excluding one-time items, Onyx lost 40 cents per share. Analysts on average had expected a loss of 42 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

Revenue for the quarter rose to $153 million from $72.7 million in the year ago period, edging past Wall Street estimates of $151.7 million.

Kyprolis had sales of $61 million for the quarter. That excludes an additional $10 million in deferred revenue for Kyprolis purchased by distributors that had not yet shipped to doctors' offices or hospitals, the company said.

Onyx also said plans were in place for a Kyprolis launch in Europe in the second half of 2014.

Onyx recorded $81.8 million in sales of Nexavar, the liver and kidney cancer drug it shares with German drugmaker Bayer AG, up from $72.7 million in the year ago quarter.

The company also received $10.2 million in royalty revenue from Bayer on its new colon cancer drug Stivarga.

Onyx earlier this year spurned a $120 per share takeover offer from Amgen and announced that it was seeking other bids for the company.

Amgen, the world's largest biotechnology company, is still widely considered to be the front-runner to acquire Onyx at the higher offer of about $130 per share.

Onyx shares rose more than 1 percent to $129 in extended trading from a Nasdaq close at $127.42.

(Reporting by Bill Berkrot; Editing by Gary Hill and Carol Bishopric)

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Jackie Robinson statue vandalized with offensive words, symbols

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A statue of Jackie Robinson in New York was vandalized on Wednesday. The base of the statue was covered with a tarp to hide offensive words written in black marker that was difficult to clean off.

By Elisha Fieldstadt, NBC News

A famous statue of Jackie Robinson in New York was found defaced with hateful words on Wednesday, police said.

Anti-Semitic writing was discovered by staff of MCU Park in Coney Island ? home of the Brooklyn Cyclones baseball team ? and New York police got a call around 8:30 a.m., said Detective Kellyann Ort.

The larger-than-life statue depicts Pee Wee Reese with his arm around Jackie Robinson ? celebrated for being the first African American in the major leagues ? in their Brooklyn Dodger uniforms.


MCU Park?s director of communications, Billy Harner, said that?park maintenance employees were preparing the field for an 11 a.m. game when they found ?vulgar writing that was both racist and anti-Semitic? and notified the park?s general manager.

Harner said in an email that?the vandalism must have occurred sometime between midnight Tuesday and 6 a.m. Wednesday.

Harner said the words were written by the vandals in black marker. NBC New York reported that the graffiti included the n-word and a swastika and said ?F--- Jackie Robinson.?

The words and symbols were on the base of the statue and the statue itself, said Harner. He said the Parks Department had an easy time getting the permanent marker off of the metal of the statue but have had difficulty removing the hateful words off the base. In the meantime, the base of the statue has been covered with a tarp, he said.

?We are optimistic that we will be able to remove all of the writing,? Harner said.

A statement from Harner and the General Manager of MCU read, "Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese embody the humanity and inclusiveness that make our borough, city and country great. It is both heartbreaking and deeply disturbing that this statue, which is a symbol of equality and tolerance, has been defaced in such an offensive and hateful way."

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The Pee Wee Reese and Jackie Robinson statue stands at MCU Park in the Coney Island section of the Brooklyn borough of New York, where the minor league Cyclones team plays. Hateful words were found written on the base and statue on Wednesday.

NBC New York reported that New York Sen. Chuck Schumer echoed the park operator?s feelings in a statement: "Defacing the Jackie Robinson statue is a dagger in the heart to everything America stands for, and I hope those who are responsible are caught, punished and taught why what they did is so disgusting and offensive."

Police have made no arrests related to the incident, said Ort. While no cameras focus solely on the statue, 36 cameras show the ballpark from various angles and MCU?s staff has turned all video over to police, Harner said.

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White House prospects mix at governor's meeting

MILWAUKEE (AP) ? Health care, budgets and education topped the official agenda for governors at their annual summer summit. But the 2016 presidential race was never far from view or conversation, given the clear White House interest from some in the crowd gathered near Lake Michigan.

With President Barack Obama in his second and final term, the fields for both parties are wide open for the 2016 nominations. There are two years to go before primary campaigning begins in earnest, but prospective candidates are already putting out feelers to determine the support they might draw.

Some of the governors thought to have potential presidential ambitions were a study in contrasts at the Milwaukee meeting.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was perhaps the most conspicuous, playing the role of proud host and welcoming his counterparts from around the country to the area where he once served as county executive.

He schmoozed with governors and their families while taking batting practice at Miller Park, home field for Milwaukee's major league baseball team, the Brewers. He sat for private interviews with local and national media and was pressed by dozens of reporters on Friday, the conference's opening day.

Most conspicuously, Walker sported a signature black and orange Harley-Davidson jacket and rumbled through downtown Milwaukee on his own 2003 motorcycle, leading a procession of 100 riders celebrating the 110th anniversary of Wisconsin's iconic motorcycle. He stopped at times for pictures with veterans who joined the rolling thunder.

"It draws more attention to what I'm trying to do in Wisconsin," Walker said in an interview. "You're in the news not for the sake of being in the news. It's for a purpose."

Walker has already developed a national reputation because of legislation he signed in 2011 stripping public employee unions of bargaining power and decisively winning the recall it prompted last year.

Like Walker, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie also has a national following. His outspoken style, background as a federal prosecutor and image as a Republican who has confronted powerful forces in his Democratic-dominant state have made him a fan favorite.

But Christie could hardly have been less conspicuous in Milwaukee. He was accompanied by few staff, mainly security. Most noteworthy, Christie, who is usually accessible to news media, granted no interview requests.

Approached in a corridor, Christie breezed by, saying "He's not taking questions."

For Christie, the calculation is different than for others with possible presidential ambitions who attended the conference, including Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and Democrats Gov. John Hickenlooper of Colorado and Martin O'Malley of Maryland. Unlike the others, Christie faces re-election this fall, and keeping his public profile focused on returning to office is a priority. Whatever prospects he may have for the presidential nomination would effectively vanish if he lost re-election.

Like Christie, Jindal kept a low profile. But he made strategic use of his time.

Jindal met with reporters Sunday morning shortly after pulling off the behind-the-scenes coup of the weekend. He had attended a fundraiser in Iowa at the invitation of Gov. Terry Branstad and flew with Branstad to Milwaukee, giving the two an hour of quality chat time. Because of Iowa's early presidential caucuses, Branstad's insight into the state's politics is valued. He also carved out time for Walker and Christie.

"I like all these governors," said Branstad, a veteran Republican. "I want to be a good friend and a good host. And I'll give them my best and honest advice."

Hickenlooper and O'Malley were as different as Christie and Walker. Hickenlooper was content to keep a lower profile, while O'Malley literally seized the spotlight.

At a Democratic Governors Association reception Saturday evening, O'Malley, who plays guitar and sings Irish folk tunes, sat in with the band on stage for several numbers.

News reporters sought out Hickenlooper to discuss his government's response to last year's shootings in a suburban Denver movie theater packed for a midnight screening. Twelve people died in the massacre, including a 6-year-old girl, and 70 were wounded.

Hickenlooper signed legislation this year requiring background checks for all gun sales and stepped-up mental health programs. "We also saw a point of keeping guns out of the hands on dangerous criminals," Hickenlooper said.

But among the Democrats, O'Malley took pains to discuss his views on the state of the country, the only one of the governors to offer insight into a prospective campaign.

"We're going through a time of confusion and polarization and a real crisis about whether or not we are capable as a people of accomplishing big and important things," he told reporters Saturday.

And in doing so, O'Malley signaled candidly he is preparing to run.

"By the end of this year, we're on course to have a body of work that lays the framework of the candidacy for 2016," he said.

Govs. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., and Rick Perry, R-Texas, are also viewed as possible contenders for their party's nomination in 2016. Neither attended the conference.

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Associated Press writer Scott Bauer contributed to this report.

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Talks resume to end Phoenix area bus strike

By David Schwartz

PHOENIX (Reuters) - Striking bus drivers and management in the Phoenix area resumed talks late on Thursday to end a strike that left some 57,000 weekday commuters scrambling to find rides to work during the morning rush hour.

The strike over pay and conditions shut down about 40 bus routes on Thursday including ones that serve the cities of Chandler, Gilbert, Mesa and Tempe and others that reach Phoenix and Scottsdale.

Most bus routes were operating in Phoenix itself, which is served by a different company than First Transit, and the light rail system for the Phoenix Valley was not idled.

The Amalgamated Transit Union and First Transit, a company that operates on behalf of the Valley Metro public agency, have been embroiled in bitter talks since the beginning of the year to forge a labor contract for about 400 bus drivers.

"We are doing this (strike) because they refuse to bargain with us in good faith," Bob Bean, president of the Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433, told Reuters. "The public needs to know that we would go back to work if they were fair to us."

Union leaders said the main sticking points were the company's attempt to gain greater control over workplace conditions and its ability to fire employees. Other areas of dispute include the firm's attempt to increase workers' healthcare contributions.

First Transit said talks to end the strike resumed on Thursday, and progress had been made. The firm said it had offered employees guaranteed salary increases ranging from 7 to 50 percent over three years, as well as healthcare concessions, although no settlement had been reached by late evening.

On Wednesday, union officials reported that 95 percent of its drivers had voted to reject First Transit's best-and-final offer. Another last-minute proposal by management failed to avert the strike, which went into effect at midnight.

A spokeswoman for First Transit could not immediately be reached for comment.

Scott Somers, Valley Metro chairman and a Mesa city councilman, said the union's decision to strike represents a major blow to "our most vulnerable neighbors."

Valley Metro urged commuters to consider alternatives such as car-pooling or working from home and urged patience from its riders.

Spokeswoman Susan Tierney said there have been discussions about implementing a skeleton service for affected riders, but that no decision has yet been made.

"We continue to look at a contingency plan," she said. "We do hope that this agreement can be finalized soon so we can get back to our regularly scheduled service."

(Additional reporting by Tim Gaynor, editing by Patrick Graham)

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U.N. rights chief calls for investigation into Syria massacre

GENEVA (Reuters) - U.N. human rights chief Navi Pillay said on Friday she wanted an independent investigation into an apparent massacre carried out by Syrian opposition forces in the town of Khan al-Assal.

"Based on the analysis by my team to date, we believe armed opposition groups in one incident - documented by a video - executed at least 30 individuals, the majority of whom appeared to be soldiers," she said in a statement issued by her office.

Syrian state media have accused insurgents of killing 123 people, mainly civilians, during a rebel offensive in Aleppo province late last month.

A group calling itself the Supporters of the Islamic Caliphate posted a video on YouTube of around 30 bodies of young men piled up against a wall. It said they were militiamen who had supported President Bashar al-Assad.

Over 100,000 people have died in Syria's civil war. In the early months of the conflict Assad's forces were blamed for the documented human rights abuses, but the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria now says both sides have committed atrocities.

"Opposition forces should not think they are immune from prosecution. They must adhere to their responsibilities under international law," Pillay said.

Pillay's office said its team in the region was continuing to investigate the circumstances and scope of the killings, and it had information from a reliable source that opposition fighters were still holding government officers and soldiers captured in Khan al-Assal.

The town is one of three sites due to be visited by another group of U.N. investigators, who are trying to find the truth about allegations that chemical weapons have been used in the conflict.

(Reporting by Tom Miles; editing by Andrew Roche)

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Tim Lee Named Chairman of GM China

Stefan Jacoby to lead Consolidated International Operations

2013-08-02

DETROIT ? General Motors today announced it is strengthening its International Operations management team in order to build on the company?s leadership position in China, the world?s largest auto market.

Tim Lee will become Chairman of GM China with responsibility for 12 joint ventures, two wholly owned foreign enterprises and more than 55,000 employees. Lee has spent nearly four years in charge of GM?s International Operations. He will continue in his role as Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing. Bob Socia, president of GM China, will continue to report to Lee.

Stefan Jacoby, most recently the CEO of Volvo Cars, will become Executive Vice President Consolidated International Operations, leading the company?s operations in more than 100 countries and territories in Africa, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East.

?Stefan is a great addition to an already strong team,? said GM Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson. ?We expect him to continue building on his record of delivering results in markets around the world.?

In addition to running Volvo Cars, Jacoby?s nearly 30-year career includes positions at Mitsubishi and several key jobs at Volkswagen. Jacoby will report to Akerson and begin on August 5.

GM?s customer focus and momentum are two reasons Jacoby said he is joining GM.

?I?m excited to join a company that?s delivering beautiful, high-quality and fascinating vehicles and is committed to improving the total customer experience,? he said. ?The GM team has plans to win in every market, and I?m eager to contribute.?

In his role as Executive Vice President Global Manufacturing, Lee has responsibility for manufacturing, labor and manufacturing engineering. GM and its joint venture partners produce vehicles, engines, transmissions and components in 168 manufacturing plants in more than 30 countries on six continents.

?GM leads in the U.S. and China, the two most important auto markets in the world,? said Akerson. ?We are also in the midst of the most aggressive product rollout in our history. Tim is critical to building on our success in China and to ensuring flawless vehicle launches around the globe.?

Globally, GM will launch more than 60 vehicles in 2013-14. Lee?s leadership has contributed to several significant quality accolades for GM, including the most awards of any automaker in the 2013 J.D. Power and Associates Initial Quality Survey and Chevrolet Impala's rating by a leading consumer publication as the best large sedan in America.

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Kolkata, August 1 (IANS): With over 100 Scottish firms forging business partnerships with Indian companies last year, a Scottish governmental agency Thursday said it is expecting a surge of 30 percent in the number of such collaborations in the 2013-14 fiscal.

"With 116 Scottish companies establishing partnerships with Indian companies in FY 12-13, which is an increase of 30 percent over the previous year, we expect the same rate of growth in the number of such companies by the end of FY 13-14," said Rooma Kumar Bassi, director-north and east India, Scottish Development International (SDI).

SDI is the international economic development arm of the Scottish Government, which set up its base in India in 2001 with offices in New Delhi, Mumbai and Hyderabad.

Bassi said the growth in the business partnerships will result in increase in the bilateral trade which is expected to grow by 15-20 percent in the next few years.

"The mutual trade roughly now stands at around 3,00,000 pounds and new partnerships will certainly add to the trade which is expected to grow by 15-20 percent in the next few years," said Bassi.

The SDI is scouting for business opportunities with India as it looks for investment in sectors like information technology, energy, education, life science, heavy engineering among others.

The SDI is expecting a growth in Indian investment in the country which currently stands at $1 billion with the presence of names like Tata Steel, Wipro, Usha Martin etc.

"While there is presence of big Indian companies, we welcome small and medium enterprises to invest in Scotland where they can get incentives like regional selective assistance, research and development (R&D) funding and concession on corporate tax provided to foreign investors in selected areas," added Bassi.

The SDI is also slated to talk to the West Bengal government regarding investment in the state.

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The movie takes its cues from Standing in the Shadows of Motown, another act of pop-culture revisionism that tried to give musical credit where it was due.

Just about everything in this movie is right. And anybody who gives a rip about unsung heroines of popular music and giving credit when credit's overdue had better come up with a good excuse not to see it.

You may never hear the Rolling Stones's Gimme Shelter the same way again after hearing Jagger's and Clayton's separate accounts of the recording of the song.

The enthusiasm and love of music on display is just unavoidable. "20 Feet" may not get the whole story, but it gets some good ones.

Music documentarian Morgan Neville uses a mix of live interviews and archival footage to let the singers, and their music, tell their stories of vocal triumph and thwarted ambition.

You know all those doo-doo-doos and whoa-whoas-whoas you hear in pop hits? Without them, supplied by the likes of Darlene Love and Merry Clayton, you likely wouldn't be singing along to the songs you hear on your car radio.

A heartfelt and rousing documentary tribute to the talent and artistry of female backup singers.

I guess it leaves us with the message not everyone is destined to be a star, for one reason or another.

Although a few white and male backup singers appear, the film becomes a de facto chronicle of the experiences of many African-American women in show business, who -- like their counterparts in less high-profile jobs -- often are undervalued and exploited.

In a way, critics are the backup singers of film.

20 Feet From Stardom will be highly entertaining to anyone who ever let a needle drop into a '70s-era groove.

Neville does a good job of highlighting songs that are especially characterized by backup singers, like Lou Reed's 'Walk on the Wild Side,' and introducing us to some of the 'unsung' talent that made those hits possible.

This fantastic glimpse into the lives of background singers, old and new, directed by Morgan Neville, is completely mesmerizing.

It is a total pleasure, a rare treat, to listen and watch old footage of these indispensable performers belt out their melodies and harmonies. They are truly pioneers that helped shape the world of music for generations to come.

This is a fascinating doc for pop, soul, R&B and rock fans, for it peels back the often unfair layers of the music business like the skins on an onion. Sometimes, it'll make you cry to witness how terribly these talents were treated.

It's important to finally put names and faces to the voices of these women because, without them, countless songs would sound horrible.

Neville's greatest strength is as a historian, able to sort through a wealth of details to find the pieces he needs to tell one clear, compelling story.

Salutes songs that wouldn't work without the back-ups and, in effect, turn us all into back-up singers.

Not the deepest documentary you're likely to come across this year -- in fact, it's not deep at all -- but it may well be the most enjoyable one.

The transcendent joy and agonizing heartbreak of making music - and trying to make it in music - have seldom been captured as vividly as in "20 Feet from Stardom."

If music has the power to connect, "Twenty Feet From Stardom" shows it's those backup voices making the connection.

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/20_feet_from_stardom/

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Bradley Manning could still die in jail despite being found NOT GUILTY of being a traitor - as military judge rules army private is guilty of spying by passing 700,000 secret files to WikiLeaks

  • Bradley Manning, 25, was found not guilty of Aiding the Enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks
  • However, he was found guilty of 20 out of 21 charges leveled against him and still faces the possibility of life behind bars
  • Officially convicted of passing information to WikiLeaks - headed by Julian Assange
  • On the eve of the verdict Assange called Manning a 'hero'
  • Sentencing will begin tomorrow morning at 9.30 a.m.
  • Prosecutor failed to prove Manning knew classified information would be seen by Al-Qaeda
  • Bin Laden had digital files at his compound in Pakistan when he was killed

By Daily Mail Reporter

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Private Bradley Manning, the former Army intelligence who sent over 700,000 secret government documents to WikiLeaks, was dramatically convicted of all espionage charges leveled against him this afternoon, but acquitted of being a traitor.

Manning stood at attention, flanked by his attorneys, as the judge read her verdicts. He appeared not to react, though his attorney, David Coombs, smiled faintly when he heard not guilty on Aiding the Enemy.

When the judge was done, Coombs put his hand on Manning's back and whispered something to him, eliciting a slight smile on the soldier's face.

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Pyrrhic Victory: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland after his acquittal for Aiding the Enemy

Pyrrhic Victory: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland after his acquittal for Aiding the Enemy

Manning, 25, was found guilty of 20 out of 21 charges for handing documents to WikiLeaks, headed by Julian Assange three years ago and still faces the possibility of up to 136 years behind bars.

The verdict was announced by Colonel Denise Lind, the judge at Manning's long court-martial at Fort Meade, Maryland. Manning's sentencing will begin at 9.30 a.m. (EST) tomorrow.

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WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange issued a statement in which he praised Manning as the 'quintessential whistleblower' and attacked the United States and President Obama for pursuing an espionage conviction against him.

Accusing President Obama of hypocrisy, Assange, who is currently holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London evading extradition to Sweden on sexual assault charges, said that the administration had 'betrayed' their principles.?

Convicted: US Army Private Bradley Manning (center) leaves the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland after being acquitted by a US military judge on the key charge of aiding the enemy in the Wikileaks case, but still facing up to 144 years in jail

Convicted: US Army Private Bradley Manning (center) leaves the courtroom at Fort Meade, Maryland after being acquitted by a US military judge on the key charge of aiding the enemy in the Wikileaks case, but still facing up to 144 years in jail

Still Facing Prison: Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge he faced, but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges, more than three years after he spilled secrets to WikiLeaks

Moment of Truth:

Moment of Truth: In this courtroom sketch, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, (third from left), stands with lead defense attorney David Coombs, (center), and his defense team as Army Col. Denise Lind, (right), who is presiding over the trial, reads her verdict

Mixed Reactions: Supporters of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning hold signs to show support during a demonstration outside the main gate of Ft. Meade July 30th, 2013 in Maryland

Mixed Reactions: Supporters of U.S. Army Pfc. Bradley E. Manning hold signs to show support during a demonstration outside the main gate of Ft. Meade July 30th, 2013 in Maryland

Critical: Julian Assange, in the Ecuadorian embassy in central London, who tonight attacked the conviction of US soldier Bradley Manning on espionage charges, calling him a 'hero'

To convict Manning of Aiding the Enemy, prosecutors had to prove during the trial that Manning had 'a general evil intent' and was aware that the material leaked to Julian Assange and WikiLeaks would go directly to al-Qaeda.

Their failure to will be seen as a victory for champions of freedom of speech and investigative journalism not just in the United States, but worldwide.

However, the victory will be viewed as pyrrhic, because Manning still faces the likelihood of dying behind bars due to the guilty verdicts on the other charges.

Wikileaks initially responded to Manning's espionage convictions to label them 'dangerous national security extremism from the Obama administration.'

Coombs came outside the court to a round of applause and shouts of 'thank you' from a few dozen Manning supporters.

'We won the battle, now we need to go win the war,' Coombs said of the sentencing phase. 'Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire.'

Supporters thanked him for his work. One slipped him a private note. Others asked questions about verdicts that they didn't understand.

Manning's court-martial was unusual because he acknowledged giving the anti-secrecy website more than 700,000 battlefield reports and diplomatic cables, and video of a 2007 U.S. helicopter attack that killed civilians in Iraq, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.

In the footage, airmen laughed and called targets 'dead b******ds.' A military investigation found troops mistook the camera equipment for weapons.

Conflicting Results: David Coombs, lead defense attorney for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, walks out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, today after receiving a verdict in Manning's court martial

Conflicting Results: David Coombs, lead defense attorney for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, walks out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, today after receiving a verdict in Manning's court martial

A supporter of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning protests outside the main gate before the reading of the verdict in Manning's military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland July 30th, 2013

Supporters of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning flash peace signs outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013, after Manning receiving a verdict in his court martial

Supporters of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning flash peace signs outside of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday, July 30th, 2013, after Manning receiving a verdict in his court martial

On the eve of the verdict, WikiLeaks founder, Julian Assange had called Manning a 'hero'.

'We call those types of people that are willing to risk ... being a martyr for all the rest of us, we call those people heroes,' Assange told CNN's Jake Tapper. 'Bradley Manning is a hero.'

If he had been found guilty of Aiding the Enemy, Manning would have faced a sentence of up to 154 years.

Glenn Greenwald, the journalist, commentator and former civil rights lawyer who first reported Edward Snowden?s disclosure of U.S. surveillance programs, said Manning?s acquittal on the charge of aiding the enemy represented a 'tiny sliver of justice.'

?(this is) 'dangerous national security extremism from the Obama administration.' Wikileaks statement posted to Twitter on the Manning Verdict?

Manning stood and faced the judge as she read the decision. She didn't explain her verdict, but said she would release detailed written findings. She didn't say when she would do that.

Military prosecutors argued all along that Manning, who was arrested in May, 2010, knew that the secret State Department cables, real-time combat videos and battle-field assessments would be obtained by al-Qaeda once they were posted onto WikiLeaks.

The U.S. government was pushing for the maximum penalty for the intelligence analyst's leaking of information that included battlefield reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. It viewed the action as a serious breach of national security, while anti-secrecy activists praised it as shining a light on shadowy U.S. operations abroad.

Military Justice: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (right) arrives at the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland on July 30th, 2013. Manning learned on Tuesday the verdict in his espionage trial

Military Justice: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (right) arrives at the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland on July 30th, 2013. Manning learned on Tuesday the verdict in his espionage trial

Reckoning: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) enters the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland, in the morning on July 30th, 2013 to face the verdict in his espionage trial Security officers stand guard before Private First Class Bradley Manning is escorted into court for the reading of the verdict in his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland July 30, 2013

Security officers stand guard before Private First Class Bradley Manning is escorted into court for the reading of the verdict in his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland July 30, 2013

The uniform, handcuffs, nametag and service ribbons of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning are seen as he departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday, July 30th

The uniform, handcuffs, nametag and service ribbons of U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning are seen as he departs the courthouse at Fort Meade, Maryland on Tuesday, July 30th

Army prosecutors contended during the court-martial that U.S. security was harmed when the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website published combat videos of an attack by an American Apache helicopter gunship, diplomatic cables and secret details on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay that Manning provided to the site while he was a junior intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010.

Manning, who early this year pleaded guilty to lesser charges that carried a 20-year sentence, will still be looking at a long prison term when the trial's sentencing phase gets under way on Wednesday.

'This is a historic verdict,' said Elizabeth Goitein, a security specialist at New York University's Brennan Center for Justice.

'Manning is one of very few people ever charged under the Espionage Act prosecutions for leaks to the media ... Despite the lack of any evidence that he intended any harm to the United States, Manning faces decades in prison. That's a very scary precedent,' she added.

Controversial: Army Pfc. Bradley Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy - the most serious charge he faced - but was convicted of espionage, theft and other charges

U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (C) is escorted out of court after the verdict for his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland today

U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (C) is escorted out of court after the verdict for his military trial at Fort Meade, Maryland today

Ben Wizner, director of the ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project, issued a statement in response to the verdict saying that 'it seems clear that the government was seeking to intimidate anyone who might consider revealing valuable information' to the press in the future.

The verdict 'reveals the U.S. government's misplaced priorities on national security,' according to Amnesty International.

'The government's pursuit of the 'aiding the enemy' charge was a serious overreach of the law, not least because there was no credible evidence of Manning's intent to harm the USA by releasing classified information to Wikileaks,' said Widney Brown, senior director of international law and policy at Amnesty International according to CNN.

A crowd of about 30 Manning supporters had gathered outside Fort Meade ahead of the reading of the verdict.

Besides the aiding the enemy acquittal, Manning was also found not guilty of an espionage charge when the judge found prosecutors had not proved their assertion Manning started giving material to WikiLeaks in late 2009. Manning said he started the leaks in February the following year.

First Court Martial Appearance: Bradley Manning (L) is escorted from the courthouse after his Article 32 hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland, December 17th, 2011

First Court Martial Appearance: Bradley Manning (L) is escorted from the courthouse after his Article 32 hearing in Fort Meade, Maryland, December 17th, 2011

Manning pleaded guilty earlier this year to lesser offenses that could have brought him 20 years behind bars, yet the government continued to pursue all but one of the original, more serious charges.

Manning said during a pre-trial hearing in February he leaked the material to expose the U.S military's 'bloodlust' and disregard for human life, and what he considered American diplomatic deceit. He said he chose information he believed would not the harm the United States and he wanted to start a debate on military and foreign policy. He did not testify at his court-martial.

Coombs portrayed Manning as a 'young, naive but good-intentioned' soldier who was in emotional turmoil, partly because he was a gay service member at a time when homosexuals were barred from serving openly in the U.S. military.

'The Only Victim was the United States' Wounded Pride': Statement by WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange on the Bradley Manning Verdict

'Today Bradley Manning, a whistleblower, was convicted by a military court at Fort Meade of 19 offences for supplying the press with information, including five counts of ?espionage?. He now faces a maximum sentence of 136 years.

'The ?aiding the enemy? charge has fallen away. It was only included, it seems, to make calling journalism ?espionage? seem reasonable. It is not.

'Bradley Manning?s alleged disclosures have exposed war crimes, sparked revolutions, and induced democratic reform. He is the quintessential whistleblower.

'This is the first ever espionage conviction against a whistleblower. It is a dangerous precedent and an example of national security extremism. It is a short sighted judgment that can not be tolerated and must be reversed. It can never be that conveying true information to the public is ?espionage?.

'President Obama has initiated more espionage proceedings against whistleblowers and publishers than all previous presidents combined.

'In 2008 presidential candidate Barack Obama ran on a platform that praised whistleblowing as an act of courage and patriotism. That platform has been comprehensively betrayed. His campaign document described whistleblowers as watchdogs when government abuses its authority. It was removed from the internet last week.

'Throughout the proceedings there has been a conspicuous absence: the absence of any victim. The prosecution did not present evidence that - or even claim that - a single person came to harm as a result of Bradley Manning?s disclosures. The government never claimed Mr. Manning was working for a foreign power.

'The only ?victim? was the US government?s wounded pride, but the abuse of this fine young man was never the way to restore it. Rather, the abuse of Bradley Manning has left the world with a sense of disgust at how low the Obama administration has fallen. It is not a sign of strength, but of weakness.

'The judge has allowed the prosecution to substantially alter the charges after both the defense and the prosecution had rested their cases, permitted the prosecution 141 witnesses and extensive secret testimony.

'The government kept Bradley Manning in a cage, stripped him naked and isolated him in order to crack him, an act formally condemned by the United Nations Special Rapporteur for torture. This was never a fair trial.

'The Obama administration has been chipping away democratic freedoms in the United States. With today?s verdict, Obama has hacked off much more. The administration is intent on deterring and silencing whistleblowers, intent on weakening freedom of the press.

'The US first amendment states that "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press". What part of ?no? does Barack Obama fail to comprehend?'

He said Manning could have sold the information or given it directly to the enemy, but he gave it to WikiLeaks in an attempt to 'spark reform' and provoke debate.

Counterintelligence witnesses valued the Iraq and Afghanistan war logs at about $5.7 million.

Coombs said Manning had no way of knowing whether al-Qaeda would access the secret-spilling website and a 2008 counterintelligence report showed the government itself didn't know much about the site.

The defense attorney also mocked the testimony of a former supervisor who said Manning told her the American flag meant nothing to him and she suspected before they deployed to Iraq that Manning was a spy.

Coombs noted she had not written up a report on Manning's alleged disloyalty, though had written ones on him taking too many smoke breaks and drinking too much coffee.

A file photograph dated 22 December 2011 shows US Army Private Bradley Manning (C) being escorted out of the courthouse following the closing arguments in his pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade, Maryland, USA

The government alleged during the court martial that Manning had sophisticated security training and broke signed agreements to protect the secrets.

He even had to give a presentation on operational security during his training after he got in trouble for posting a YouTube video about what he was learning.

The guilty verdict on most of the counts could make it difficult for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to persuade future sources of information to share classified details with the website.

That is going to make it more difficult for people who want to deal with Assange. They are going to be at greater risk and that will put his operation at risk," said Michael Corgan, a professor of international relations at Boston University and former officer in the U.S. Navy.

'It will have a very chilling effect on WikiLeaks,' he said ahead of the verdict.

Manning, originally from Crescent, Oklahoma, opted to have his case heard by a judge, rather than a panel of military jurors.

During the court-martial proceedings, military prosecutors called the defendant a 'traitor' for publicly posting information that the U.S. government said could jeopardize national security and intelligence operations.
Members of the prosecution team, (L-R) Captain Angel Overgaard and Major Ashden Fein, arrive for a motion hearing in the case United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning June 6, 2012 in Fort Meade, Maryland

Members of the prosecution team, (L-R) Captain Angel Overgaard and Major Ashden Fein, arrive for a motion hearing in the case United States vs. Pfc. Bradley E. Manning June 6, 2012 in Fort Meade, Maryland

Tribunal: In this courtroom sketch provided by the U.S. Army, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (2nd L) sits with his military defense attorneys before Army Judge Denise Lind (R) in a courthouse in Fort Meade, in Maryland

Tribunal: In this courtroom sketch provided by the U.S. Army, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning (2nd L) sits with his military defense attorneys before Army Judge Denise Lind (R) in a courthouse in Fort Meade, in Maryland

Defense lawyers described Manning as well-intentioned but naive in hoping that his disclosures would provoke a more intense debate in the United States about diplomatic and military actions in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prior to the verdict, two dozen supporters of Manning demonstrated outside Fort Meade where Colonel Denise Lind prepared to deliver her decision on whether Manning aided the enemy at 1 p.m (EST) on Tuesday afternoon.

Fresh Faced: A 24 October 2010image shows Army Specialist Bradley Manning. Private Bradley Manning was found not guilty on 30 July 2013 by a U.S. military judge on the key charge of aiding the enemy in the Wikileaks case

Fresh Faced: A 24 October 2010image shows Army Specialist Bradley Manning. Private Bradley Manning was found not guilty on 30 July 2013 by a U.S. military judge on the key charge of aiding the enemy in the Wikileaks case

Manning, 25, faced 22 counts including espionage, computer fraud and theft charges for providing 700,000 classified government documents to the WikiLeaks website - but the most serious was Aiding the enemy, which carried the possibility of a life sentence.

Prosecutors were charged with proving Manning had 'a general evil intent' and knew the documents and videos he provided to WikiLeaks would be seen by al-Qaeda.

However, anti-secrecy campaigners across the world have praised him for highlighting shadowy U.S. operations abroad.

An Aiding-the- enemy conviction could have set a precedent because Manning did not directly give the classified material to al-Qaeda and WikiLeaks have never confirmed they received the material.

'Most of the aiding-the-enemy charges historically have had to do with POWs who gave information to the Japanese during World War II, or to Chinese communists during Korea, or during the Vietnam War,' Duke law school professor and former Air Force judge advocate Scott Silliman told The Associated Press.

Air Force Reserve Lt. Col. David J.R. Frakt, a visiting professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh, said a conviction on the most serious charge, if upheld on appeal, 'would essentially create a new way of aiding the enemy in a very indirect fashion, even an unintended fashion.'

Target: A still from a video shot from a U.S. army Apache helicopter showing a group of men in the streets of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon in 2007

Target: A still from a video shot from a U.S. army Apache helicopter showing a group of men in the streets of eastern Baghdad just prior to being fired upon in 2007

'Collateral damage: One of the wounded men dashes for cover as the helicopter pilot urges his colleague to continue firing. He is eventually brought down

'Collateral damage: One of the wounded men dashes for cover as the helicopter pilot urges his colleague to continue firing. He is eventually brought down

'He's just a dumb kid who got himself into a situation where he felt he was saving the world,' Joseph Wippl, a professor of international relations at Boston University and a former CIA officer, told Reuters before the verdict.

WHAT DOES THE MANNING VERDICT MEAN FOR EDWARD SNOWDEN?

  • Like Bradley Manning, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden maintains the release of sensitive information was for the benefit of U.S. citizens - but as today's verdict proves, that argument is no defense in the face of espionage charges.
  • Manning was convicted on five charges of espionage under a legal rationale similar to the one presented by prosecutors in indicting Snowden under the 1917 Espionage Act. As a result, Manning faces up to 136 years behind bars - and Snowden could expect similar treatment if he returns to the U.S.
  • Manning was acquitted of aiding the enemy as the government could not prove that he knew the release of the information would find its way to al-Qaeda. While Snowden does not face this charge, it does provide reassurance of the difficulties in proving it.
  • But while there are similarities between the Manning and Snowden cases, they are also distinct - in part because of what Snowden learned from the Manning case - and this makes judgments about Snowden's future trickier.First of all, he approached newspapers to publish the information, rather than through Wikileaks, allowing the releases to be more selective. Secondly, after how Manning was treated - arrested and tortured - Snowden learned that avoiding capture made sense and that the way Manning was treated could be used politically. Indeed, when Attorney General Eric Holder said last week that Snowden would not be tortured, it was likely the result of the whistleblower and his supporters referring to the Manning case.

'I think he should be convicted and they should be easy on him. They need to do more on limiting access to classified information,' he added.

The verdict by judge Col. Denise Lind follows about two months of conflicting testimony and evidence.

Manning, a 25-year-old native of Crescent, Oklahoma, admitted to sending more than 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports, 250,000 State Department diplomatic cables and other material, including several battlefield video clips, to WikiLeaks while in Iraq in early 2010. WikiLeaks published most of the material online.

The video included footage of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed at least nine men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver.

Manning claims he selected material that wouldn't harm troops or national security.

Prosecutors called him an anarchist hacker and traitor who indiscriminately leaked classified information he had sworn to protect.

They said al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden obtained copies of some of the documents WikiLeaks published before he was killed by U.S. Navy Seals in 2011.

In bringing the charge against Manning, prosecutors cited the Civil War-era court-martial of Pvt. Henry Vanderwater, a Union soldier convicted in 1863 of aiding the enemy by giving an Alexandria, Va., newspaper a command roster that was then published.

Coombs countered that the Civil War-era cases involved coded messages disguised as advertisements.

He said all modern cases involve military members who gave the enemy information directly.

In closing arguments last week, the defense portrayed Manning as a naive whistleblower who wanted to expose war crimes. Prosecutors call him an anarchist hacker and a traitor.

They characterized him as a a traitor with one mission as an intelligence analyst in Iraq: to find and reveal government secrets to a group of anarchists and bask in the glory as a whistleblower, a prosecutor said last week during closing arguments.

Major Ashden Fein said Manning betrayed his country's trust and gave classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, knowing the material would be seen by Al-Qaeda

Defence:

Defence: David Coombs, center, civilian attorney for Army Pfc. Bradley Manning. Coombs said supporters on Friday would hear what truth sounds like

Manning, 25, was not the troubled, naive soldier defense attorneys have made him out to be, Fein said.

He displayed a smiling photo of Manning from 2010 when he was visiting relatives while on leave.

Fein said: 'This is a gleeful, grinning Pfc. Manning' who sent battlefield reports to WikiLeaks, accompanied by the message: 'Have a good day.'

Manning has acknowledged giving WikiLeaks hundreds of thousands of battlefield reports, diplomatic cables and videos in late 2009 and early 2010.

But he says he didn't believe the information would harm troops in Afghanistan and Iraq or threaten national security.

Three Years in Custody: A Timeline of the Bradley Manning Trial

  • Late 2009 - early 2010
  • Private First Class Bradley Manning arrives in Baghdad, Iraq and begins downloading classified material to hand to WikiLeaks.
  • 2010
  • February: Manning hands Julian Assange and WikiLeaks video footage of a 2007 Apache helicopter attack the U.S. carried out on Iraqi insurgents. The footage also shows two employees of Reuters being shot dead
  • April: WikiLeaks releases the footage causing a worldwide sensation under the title 'Collateral Murder'
  • May 21st: Hacker Adrian Lamo and Manning begin to talk online and the soldier confesses to handing over the footage to WikiLeaks - Lamo contacts authorities.
  • May 29th: Bradley Manning is arrested in Baghdad by U.S. Military authorities
  • June: Manning is detained at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait and allegedly held in an eight-by-eight-foot cafe for a month
  • June 6th: The United States files charges against Manning
  • July 25th: WikiLeaks releases 'Afghan War Diary' - classified documents that chart the progress of the Afghan campaign from 2004-10
  • July 29th: Manning is flown from Kuwait to the United States and held at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia - where he is allegedly held in solitary confinement for nine months
  • 2011
  • March: Manning receives charges of 22 violations including, 'aiding the enemy'
  • April: He is sent to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, where he is not kept in solitary confinement
  • 2012
  • January 8th: The judge in Manning's cases does not drop the charges against the Private First Class
  • February 3rd: A military investigators says that he will stand trial, preceded by months of pretrial hearings
  • 2013
  • June 3rd: Bradley Manning's eight-week trial begins in Fort Meade, Maryland
  • July 25th: Closing arguments delivered in the dramatic trial
  • July 29th: Judge Lind announces the verdict in the trial will be delivered at 1 p.m. on July 30th

Indeed, during the trial it emerged how troubled Manning, who is openly gay, had become.

Coombs told the court that Manning sent a distressed email to his immediate supervisor, Master Sergeant Paul Watkins in 2009 telling him he was suffering from a gender identity disorder and even sent Watkins a picture of himself as a woman.

He even told Watkins his ability to work as an analyst was impaired by his emotional problems.

Fein said Manning relied on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for guidance on what to leak, starting within two weeks of his arrival in Iraq in November 2009.

Referring to a 'Most Wanted Leaks' list the organization published, Fein said WikiLeaks sought almost exclusively information about the U.S.

Federal authorities also are looking into whether Assange can be prosecuted.

He has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crimes allegations.

Home: Bin Laden's three wives and two daughters lived with him in the Abbottabad hideout just 200 yards from a military base which was raided last yearEven Osama bin Laden had some of the digital files at his compound (pictured) in Pakistan when he was killed in 2011, the prosecutor said.

This photo taken on June 16, 2013 shows Ecuadurian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (R) looking on as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) waves from the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London

This photo taken on June 16, 2013 shows Ecuadurian Foreign Minister Ricardo Patino (R) looking on as Wikileaks founder Julian Assange (L) waves from the window of the Ecuadorian embassy in central London

Still, more than three years after Manning's arrest in May 2010, the U.S. intelligence community is reeling again from leaked secrets.

The latest revelations came from former intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who has been holed up in the transit area of a Moscow airport for more than a month despite U.S. calls for Russian authorities to turn him over.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has surfaced again as a major player in the newest scandal, this time aiding Snowden in eluding authorities to seek asylum abroad.

The cases of Manning and Snowden illustrate the difficulties of keeping government secrets at a time the Internet makes it easy to disseminate them widely and quickly. In addition, more people are granted access to classified data.

After WikiLeaks published a trove of documents related to the Afghanistan war in 2010, the site launched to international fame, along with its founder, Julian Assange.

'We call those types of people that are willing to risk ... being a martyr for all the rest of us, we call those people heroes,' Assange told CNN's Jake Tapper. 'Bradley Manning is a hero.'

Assange described the case against Manning, specifically the aiding the enemy charge, as a serious attack against investigative journalism.

'It will be the end, essentially, of national security journalism in the United States,' he said on the eve of the verdict.

Assange spoke to CNN from the Ecuadorean Embassy in London. He is hiding there to avoid extradition to Sweden, where he is wanted for questioning over allegations of sex crimes.

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