after eight weeks of testimony inside a military court room bradley manning is acquitted on the most serious charge of aiding the enemy however the army private won't be a free man anytime soon. coming up next more on the guilty charges handed down today and his sentencing phase. and here's a mindbender scientists at mit have discovered a new way to control the minds of the lab rats by using a beam of light we'll tell you how it's done and what it could potentially mean for humans. plus the government has given subsidies to the nation's farmers but what would you save taxpayer dollars were given to people who aren't even a lot of will tell you about the spending beyond the great internet show i.

mean it's tuesday july thirtieth eight pm in washington d.c. i'm marinate and you're watching our. our lead story tonight the verdict in the bradley manning trial a military court has found army private bradley manning accused of the largest leak of classified information in u.s. history not guilty of aiding the enemy now the aiding the enemy charge would have carried a maximum sentence of life in prison manning was however found guilty of most of the remaining charges against him including five charges of espionage five counts of theft and four counts of investment bradley manning's family just released a statement on the verdict to the guardian newspaper erode while we're obviously disappointed in today's verdict we are happy that judge lynn agreed with us that brad never intended to help america's enemies in any way brad loves his country and was proud to wear it uniform. artie has been covering the trial from the very beginning i spoke to archie web producer andrew blake from fort meade maryland and

i asked him if he could tell us what the reaction and mood was like once the verdict was read. relief relief everywhere relief from the journalist a handful of journalists who have been here for nineteen months relief from the spectators who drove hundreds of miles all night to be here for what was actually only a three minute long court hearing more or less colonel denise lynn took the stand just after one o'clock today she will add through the twenty or so comments that private manning has been charged with and then said i they're not guilty or guilty the first charge that she read was the aiding the enemy charge the most serious of them that could've sent manning a life sentence and the moment that she took the stand and said not guilty in the media center at least people just kind of didn't even know how to react but then but then sure enough you know a second later she started going through the other you know twenty one or so counts and at this point private manning could still face up to one hundred thirty six years in prison he has been convicted on almost all of the counts that he faces

except for aiding the enemy but anyways yes people are very relieved that this is over at least a visit to the police with regards to where it is right now we're kind of in the homestretch here we're going to enter the sentencing phase in which point we expect testimonies from around forty different witnesses who are going to go up and actually talk about private manning's intent his motive what he wanted to do when he got to make that little connection with wiki leaks a few years back aside from relief the only other emotion that was really prevailing here today was. absolute frustration i'll be happy susan on behalf of the media dozens and dozens of members of the media the international media from around the world were here and for me this afternoon for the verdict yet when the verdict was announced the internet at the base died people were not allowed to have phones are not allowed to have wi-fi hotspots so pretty much any journalist who was here which aren't many but enough at least for today were able to file reports in a timely matter kind of caused a really big. what have you over here at fort meade but

this is about a trial that's been trotted in secrecy throughout for the last three years so. to say that it was unexpected would be a lie i suppose right now andrew bradley manning was acquitted of the most serious charge like you said the aiding the enemy charge but he was found guilty of nineteen lesser charges you mentioned before but can you talk more about what those charges are. they're basically a bunch of counts relating to either espionage or computer fraud. most of the trial and frankly the boring us parts of the trial the most boring parts we're hearing about how private manning pretty much took his ability as a very smart army intelligence analyst who knew how to use computers and harness that in order to get this information now private manning had the necessary permissions to access most of the information that he was accused of leaking to

wiki leaks however how he actually got that material prompted the government to file a number of computer fraud and abuse charges against him now also in addition to any enemy with which we said is now off his plate the government has accused him and now charged him and convicted him of espionage multiple counts of espionage which sets a pretty alarming precedent for journalists for the media for democracy in general is nowhere near as terrible as if it would have been a guilty conviction of aiding the enemy but these espionage charges are very very serious counts and if sentenced to. largest the lengthiest term possible private manning could spend one hundred thirty six years in prison meanwhile he was found not guilty of espionage like you said for releasing the collateral murder video can you explain this a little further please. now out of all the material that private

manning willingly admitted to leaking to with you except that guantanamo bay has seen a team need to sesame briefs state department diplomatic cables the collateral murder video another era. video hundreds and thousands of very sensitive military files now out of all of those collateral murder is perhaps the most well known and with good reason private manning found footage of u.s. soldiers firing and killing civilians journalists and civilians from from high in the sky just gunning them down private manning saw that he wanted the rest of the world to see that the thing about that footage though is that it wasn't top secret this wasn't this wasn't something that was highly sensitive it actually had been out there a very successful journalist had found a copy of it himself and wrote about it in a book that was published around the world so the government you know chose to let manning off a little easy on that one but you know like we were saying it is still possible hundred thirty six years maximum sentence based off of the other convictions and what was bradley manning's reaction today.

i spoke to someone actually who was sitting quite near him in the courtroom this afternoon and i spoke to her mediately after the verdict and i said what was brad like but what did brad do and she said that the moment that they read the not guilty verdict for aiding the enemy bradley and his civilian defense attorney david coombs both got a little smile across their face and when this person the spectator told me this neither of us really knew how to react and gone to this court many times i've sat directly behind manning a couple of times i bumped into him in the hall here in fort meade and this is you know someone whose life was literally hanging in the balance with this one count now yes he could spend the rest of his life in prison but the fact that they let him off of the most serious of charges is definitely something that everyone obviously the defense and the spectators the civilian spectators the supporters

everyone was quite relieved to hear including private manning of course. thank you for that report and that was our web producer andrew blake. archly has been following bradley manning from the very beginning and we've been bringing you all the latest developments throughout the trial r.t. correspondent liz wahl has been outside the courthouse at fort meade almost every day since the trial got underway but the saga of bradley manning started way before the court martial began in june here's liz walls look back at all the key events. he enlisted in the military in two thousand and seven bradley manning was a private first class in the second brigade combat team he was deployed to a base near baghdad iraq to work as an intelligence analyst it was here in may two thousand and ten that he was arrested for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti secrecy website wiki leaks among them iraq and afghanistan war logs and videos guantanamo bay detainee assessments and diplomatic

cables the government filed twenty one charges against him total the most serious charge aiding the enemy a rare charge that carries a life sentence with no chance of parole it would be nearly three years before he would have his day in court and for me at maryland and february two thousand and thirteen he pleaded guilty to ten of the lesser charges and made into leaking the information to wiki leaks the court martial began on june third the prosecution called up dozens of witnesses over the span of six weeks to prove that manning aided the enemy when he sent over seven hundred thousand classified documents to wiki leaks according to the government manning should have known that by doing so al qaeda and their affiliates would have seen the information they said he did it all because he was craving fame and notoriety they also tried to prove that manning was conspiring with julian the saudis the founder of wiki leaks in an effort to get as much u.s. government secrets on the internet as possible the defense's case was much quicker

wrapping up on its third day and they showed this video the now infamous video dubbed collateral murder that manning leaked it shows an apache helicopter firing down on civilians on the ground in iraq manning's attorney david combs tried to characterize manning as a whistleblower a young man that was troubled by what he saw and wanted to bring the truth to the public and spark and national debate. after three months of trial the judge alone delivered the verdict judge colonel the new flint found him not guilty of aiding the enemy but guilty of most of the other charges even though he was acquitted of the most serious charge he still faces over one hundred years for the last or charges a judge will determine that part of his fate during sentencing in washington lives are to you. now that you know the general timeline of a bradley manning trial here's

a look at how this court martial played out. mattingly was in the courtroom today for the first will start of the court martial in the three years since bradley manning's arrest there have been a number of protests held in his support today is one of the largest we've seen so far one of many protests happening across the country and. the opening arguments of this case the prosecution said that they would prove that manning sent classified videos to a man by the name of jason katz we're talking about a video purportedly shows a military helicopter firing down on civilians in afghanistan resulting in national casualty is one of the things we tried to highlight with the video was bradley bradley manning's own words was sort of the question which i think is maybe one of the most important questions for a time which is what would you do if you had access to information that you believe belonged in the public domain and that was necessary for people to make informed decisions of the day the defense presented their closing arguments and they started

off by tacking the prosecution's case and their theory the way that they portrayed bradley manning. they said it was quoted their story has been a logic child the judge did not dismiss this charge of aiding the enemy so as of now the possibility of life behind bars without parole still stands for the army the army private i would say that we've now had a trial we've had evidence put together that the government presented no evidence that he affirmatively intended to harm the united states hurdle denise lynn took the stand just after one o'clock today the first charge that she read was the aiding the enemy charge the most serious of them that could've sent manning a life sentence and the moment that she took the stand and said not guilty in the media center at least people just kind of didn't even know how to react so this final judgment in the bradley manning trial brings up a lot of questions both for the army private and for the country to walk us through the legal ramifications of today's verdict i was joined earlier by colonel morris

davis colonel davis is a professor of law at howard university the former lead prosecutor guantanamo bay and an expert witness who testified in the manning trial i started by asking him about the larger implications of the manning verdict. it's critically important certainly but i think also it's important for a number of other factors as well the military justice system which has really taken a beating over the last several months over the sexual assault problem so i think today was an opportunity to show that military justice can work so you know good on judge lynn and for i think doing the right thing here so it's i think does help rehabilitate the image of military justice i think is a statement about her whether this is going to be a judgment based on courage or compliance and it looks like an act of courage on on her part i think it's a statement too about the obama administration's war on leaks and the public finding out about what its government is doing so i think in that respect it's

probably a loss for them that bradley manning didn't become the scapegoat they would like for him to in right now christian harston it sees me want to get this name right ha ha ha clinton sorry question if you're hearing this is a spokesman for wiki leaks and he spoke to our gear earlier today and let's take a look at what he had to say. he's. used to facing a long time in prison especially when you think about how this trial has been. one is smoke filled with any optimism only last week. to the prosecution to change so what the judges on the laws stay at the trial now do you agree with what we've seen from lens points from what we've seen from what if it points to manning receiving a longer sentence or not well it will be as he's facing and it sounds terrible hundred thirty year maximum now again that's the maximum infrequent represented

clients it can add up quickly like one drug deals fifteen years so ten of those max one hundred fifty years you mean that's what you're going to get so one thirty is the max i expect mr coombs the defense counsel to file a motion to treat some of those offenses as being multiplicity even though there are two charges they were one course of conduct so they should be punished as a single event so one thirty is the upper limit probably looking at something if i was to bet and i don't bet i'm bad at guessing but probably something in the twenty to twenty five year range is probably what i would be looking for ok now what does the defense do now will they appeal the guilty verdict for espionage or and as a months or other other verdicts that come up i'm sure they will have nothing to lose there after that these sentences and now i'm assuming sometime probably next week the trial phase and then it goes into the appellate review process which is a four step process it'll first go to the convening authority then it will go to

the army court of criminal appeals then to the court of appeals for the armed forces or to the five judge civilian panel here in d.c. and then potentially the supreme court so what we're looking at is probably another three to five years of litigation where these issues will be litigated for manning things can stay as is order. get better they can't get worse so like the aiding the enemy charge can't be brought back against them so. if i was ham i would fight it tooth and nail at every step and you know try to make a better situation out of it like you said nothing to lose now any insight into how did judge denise and how she came to her legal decision a man of his command of all that for so i would have preferred that she grant the motion last week to dismiss the aiding the enemy charge saying this offense is not a legitimate offense and should be dismissed outright but she let it go forward and

today she said the government's evidence didn't meet the beyond a reasonable doubt standard so you know it's kind of a mixed bag of them certainly please she didn't convict him of aiding the enemy but i would have preferred that she had dismissed the charge outright so what we wound up is you know she said the government cleared the low the low hurdle they didn't clear the high hurdle which for private manning it's you know same result but for other people for the other potential leakers or journalists you know it's still kind of hanging there in limbo where i would prefer just to seeing it dismissed right now there's been some speculation that judge land god could be promoted to the court of appeal because this if that were to happen would that mean that she would be in charge of seen the appeals case. and they hated him from a military standpoint moving from being a trial judge to the appellate court and is not a promotion and so still be a colonel and he still is a good job it is really a lateral in the military you normally stay in an assignment for you know one to

three years and then you move to another sign like me when i was stationed here in d.c. i'm out last five years i have three different jobs so her moving to the court is not a reward or a punishment is just a lateral move there are at least ten or twelve judges on the appellate court and they sit in three judge panel so she will be. qualified from being on you having any involvement. in the case will be a different group of army appellate judges that will hear private manning scase and so that her involvement and when she announces a sentence now even without the aiding the enemy charges you talked about this a little bit a man he's still going to face more than one hundred years behind bars can you now expand on what happens with the sentencing phase the court martial this gives you the most military things are there's no easy answer to the question there's a voluminous army regulation people can go out to google and type in army

confinement and they'll find the regulation that lays out everything from how many pairs of socks you can have to how you calculate how much time you serve assuming he gets a say twenty years to an example twenty years typically acquaints to something in the ten to twelve year range now in addition he'll get credit for the time he's already been in confinement he gets the extra credit for the period the judge lynn said he was mistreated so you're probably knocking four years off to begin with then you get good time credit if you behave yourself you get ten days a month of if you take college courses you get some more and then if you sort of the third year olds will for parole so assuming it manning is sentenced to twenty years he's probably looking at another i would say you know eight to ten at most before probably looking at maybe early thirty's when he actually out on the street but thank you for your insight we always appreciate your to have you here that was colonel morris davis professor of law at howard university. and now i want

to change things up a bit and discuss some major breakthroughs in science and medicine so here's what's on the docket you may remember the summer blockbuster inception. well if an idea can build a city some mit professors found that a beam of light can build a whole new memory at least in the minds of mice and id research scientists shoot me explained how this is possible to r.t. earlier today. konar misconception about memory is like memory is like a picture. it will be for ever. was and. so the memory is there a dynamic it is a time when we think about something we when we remember something actually we also make some changes to the member so experiment is coming on. so we want to see.

an old memory and also the new information into that we make a completely new memory in this case a completely false. meanwhile programmer barnaby jack he was a well known hacker and he was especially well known for one instance where he got cash to fly out of a.t.m. machines he was slated to head to san francisco for a presentation a new hack into a pacemaker but before he could show off the technique of killing from thirty feet away he was pronounced dead late last week and finally we'll be talking about brain hacking and our eyes are machines that use magnetic fields and radio pulses to map the inside of a body but there's a new use for them functional m.r.i. is can also measure changes in brain activity so are these machines my readers to discuss all of this i was joined earlier by dr natasha vetter more futurist and co-author of the transhumanist reader and i started off by asking her of these false memories implanted in mice take the place of true memories that's

a really good point because there's so much research on what is memory and what is selective memory sometimes we remember issues that happen to us years ago when we were maybe five or six years old that can't remember what happened to us last week or last year so our memory has different capacities for long term memory short term memory and working memory. memory manipulate memory has a history going back to brainwashing hypnosis suggestion and my reading is another aspect of it which we looked at for years with individuals who claim to be psychic able to reach or map your mind but if you assume as can be coercive and sometimes not so these hackers are wearing a white hat or a black hat usually. now do you see this technology ever being utilized on humans definitely i think that the f. m.r.i. is a way we can take a look at our brain and different problems for medical reasons but certainly if we

can determine thought or a set of thoughts of memories through the brain i think that's a very healthy thing because we don't want to loose our memories remember alzheimer's disease is on the rise and as we're living longer and aging more a slowly hopefully you fully with where vitality and our memories intact we're watching as much as possible about our might on minds in our brains now how long before you think we might see this type of technology used to humans. well we're already seeing little bits and pieces of it in fact there's some research being done right now with the well known scientist stephen hawking is in trying to have slate his memories i mean that's one research project the other one is when you mention with the f. m.r.i. there's also the one with the rats at mit looking at if we can imprint memories into rats and usually these memories are fearful memories i'd like to see them do some happiness memories actually so weak you mention of them inception i think that

we will be able to manipulate memories to be sure just as we've been manipulating mind since maoist china or the. period of my manipulation but we want to do it in a healthy way coersion is never good no matter how we look at it that's what we kind of know and layman's term as brainwashing no yes absolutely correct create want to if we're going to hack we want to use the white hat that means protecting ourselves from being hacked by coercive individuals who want to steal something from a such as our memories but if we know how to hack ourselves then we'll be able to protect our own memories again this is a very fuzzy area but hacking often carries with us a very negative connotation so we want to be very careful about how we use hacking . that was dr natasha visa more co-author of the transhumanist reader. now a new report released by the government accountability office says that between two

thousand and eight and two thousand and twelve the agricultural department gave out over thirty million dollars in farm subsidy subsidies to forty five hundred people who had been dead for over one year now the farming service agency identified thousands of deceased individuals who were given three point three million dollars in improper payouts after their debts of which the f.s.a. has recovered approximately one million dollars the government accountability office reviewed a random sample of payments to deceased individuals that the f.s.a. identified as proper they found that nine percent did not have sufficient support to be coded as proper more monitoring it to ensure that the county office coding system is supported by documentation could help to reduce the error rate now if you can believe it this is still a big improvement over previous audit between one hundred ninety nine and two thousand and five the agricultural department gave away one point one billion dollars to more than one hundred seventy thousand dead people. now since its

founding the us has had a legal framework that includes both criminal and civil law and while both types of laws of issues have had their own issues civil law in particular has become viewed by some people as just a way for us to sue one another for big bucks but is that really the case for more on that the residents lori her finished. the rocket tonight is a wheelchair bound man from hawaii we. levy had to fly to massachusetts for he booked a flight was delta airlines and call the airline ahead of time to let them know

he's need special assistance delta assured him that he'd be given accommodations for his disability but when he landed the flight attendant told him the airline didn't have the required aisle chair or list he needed to get off the plane when he asked what he should do the flight attendant just said i don't know but we can't get you off the played so we had to crawl off the plane and across the tarmac in his suit in front of all the other passengers and the flight attendant and the same exact thing happened on his flight back home the attendants didn't help heaven because according to cannot and they were afraid of getting sued. according to recent data from the american bar association there are over one point two million lawyers in the u.s. eighty percent of the world's lawyers live in america that's one attorney for every twelve adults about fifteen million civil cases are filed here every year

and many of those are tort cases in which a wrong person can sue for money in tort trials fifty five percent of the time the plaintiffs win and the u.s. and the costs of the tort system in the u.s. is about two hundred fifty billion dollars annually. suing for money is a thriving business here in the u.s. and that's why many politicians like to bang on their podium saying we need tort reform tort reform is basically limiting the amount of money people can sue for as a way to curtail frivolous lawsuits after hearing all of those statistics you might think the door report makes said but as tort reform it had their way you couldn't sue corporations for what your do politicians who support tort reform aren't trying to curb frivolous lawsuits there are two. time to protect corporations from being responsible and having to pay out when they screw up a private citizen. the fact that the delta flight attendants watched

a disabled man crawl across the tarmac and did nothing to help because they were afraid of getting sued is absolutely disgusting america is a two happy nation but we don't need legal reform we need mental reform because at the heart of our through problem are the same two mental issues that are causing the rest of our problems fear and greed tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. that does it for now for more of the stories we covered you can go to youtube dot com forward slash r t america and check out our web site r t v dot com for its last usa you can also follow me on twitter at aaron aid and for all of us at r.t. have a very good night. the

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