thank you for that report and that was our web producer andrew blake. our team has been. following brother a man in from the very beginning and we have 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 current court martial began in june here's liz wall with a look back at the key events. he enlisted in the military in two thousand and seven bradley manning was a private first class from 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

let's not get the latest from a tease andrew blake he's outside full made for some date with the verdict was handed out just over an hour ago on drew on the phone i can see that what kind of reaction are you seeing made obviously out of media that you weren't allowed to report on the side of the from within the courtroom but what are you seeing around you then now you know i have to tell you as long as there were. actually able to report from anywhere on the base it was actually disaster this afternoon when the verdict was read there was no internet in the media center shut off and we were told to come back on afterwards it did not so we had around a few dozen journalists scrambling to try to find a way to connect to the internet many. just for one saga has become a trial often to pretty much entirely secrecy it's been over over twenty charges over twenty counts for three years by the treaty confinement and the government has refused to release most of the documentation and the fact that the media couldn't actually report on this very important day today is a travesty but that being said

enemy could land manning a life sentence or even the death penalty or to his very own web producer andrew blake has been closely following the case and joins me now to break down the very latest hi andrew. so why wasn't this charge dismissed because i was under the impression that there was no proof that he actually did the enemy well what happened was so you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government song would say ok manning give way to the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you give them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see it for the rest of life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that i. using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening for a

information to wiki leaks could face life in jail without parole let's cross live now to our teams andrew blake for the details of andrew you've been of course following this trial both in d.c. and outside of the d.c. right now but now you've been covering it for quite some time why it was the charge upheld. so manning as you know is charged with around twenty different aiding the enemy is the most significant of these if convicted he would receive a maximum of life in prison it's actually a conviction that could come with capital punishment but the government has already elected to pursue that charge anyways manning could still be convicted under aiding the enemy after today because the presiding military judge said that the government actually did provide enough evidence so that they can actually go on and properly proceed with the case now david coombs to civilian defense attorney representing private manning he had argued after the prosecution rested earlier this month that the government could not provide adequate enough evidence that would necessitate to the judge having to rule either th

america's largest cyber fraud case the syndicate could now face decades behind bars as artie's andrew blake reports. we had five guys four russian nationals and one ukrainian man who over the course of around seven years were able to penetrate a number of the networks of leading financial institutions banks all sorts of systems where very important information was being stored over the course for several years those men broke into the databases allegedly took sensitive information and in the end u.s. prosecutors now say that those five men were able to compromise roughly one hundred sixty million credit cards causing upwards of three hundred million dollars of damage they were able to elude authorities for around seven or eight years now but actually masterminding this operation itself took a lot of very careful planning now of the five men that are believed involved in this each one kind of had a separate little niche that they would specialize in for instance were experts when it came to penetrating computer networks others were would go into these networks after they were compromised in

these carries a potential ten year life term so manning sentencings hearing as you heard from andrew blake is set to begin on wednesday out of the host of charges against him and manning still faces more than one hundred years behind bars well for a closer look at how the white house has used the espionage act in its war against whistleblowers here's our account. although manning was not found guilty of aiding the enemy his still faces life in prison but the judge found him guilty of multiple violations of the espionage act the espionage act was never intended to punish whistleblowers it's a nine hundred seventeen statute for sponsorship the obama administration has already charged eight whistleblowers with espionage and yet yet even in the face of those very serious charges whistleblowers keep coming forward with revelations about the government's wrongdoings as they see that bradley manning's example didn't stop edward snowden for example from doing what he did and here's joining us on the man who gave media pot for him to bradley manning's revelations here's what he said about about the

of aiding the enemy and that is breaking the set program to discuss developments with producer andrew blake. what happened was so you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long been saying ok manning you aided the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see for the rest your life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you're not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening for a couple of weeks now when the prosecution actually had to present their case and they had to call witnesses and they actually had to try to make an effort to say bradley manning give way to the enemy afterwards to defend

sentencing will begin later on wednesday and it could be weeks before manning learns his fate or do you andrew blake was at the proceedings. after three years of pretrial detainment and two months of testimony the court martial of private first class bradley manning is finally wrapping up in fort meade maryland starting wednesday the court case will enter its sentencing phase and the government and defense are expected to call upwards of forty witnesses total in order to testify to the merit and intent and motive of private manning now during the last two months of testimony we've heard all sorts of stories about how private manning acted in an off of the battlefield what kind of experience he had as an army intelligence analyst however not all of those testimonies will be heard by members of the public or the press in fact or more than a dozen of the testimonies that will be entered in the court will be done so under seal those are all classified witnesses whose testimonies could harm national security if they were released earlier this year we heard from manning himself how he did it and why he di

enemy could land manning a life sentence or even the death penalty or to his very own web producer andrew blakehas been closely following the case and joins me now to break down the very latest hi andrew. so why wasn't this charge dismissed because i was under the impression that there was no proof that he actually did the enemy well what happened was you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long and saying ok manning you waited. the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you seas for the rest of life and you left because a lot of people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you know really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening f

enemy could land manning a life sentence or even the death penalty or to its very own web producer andrew blakehas been closely following the case and joins me now to break down the very latest hi andrew. so why wasn't this charge dismissed because i was under the impression that there was no proof that he actually the enemy well what happened was you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long been saying ok manning deleted the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got on the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and got those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you seas for the rest of life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you know really aiding the enemy right so i think that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening

enemy could land manning a life sentence or even the death penalty or his very own web producer andrew blake has been closely following the case and joins me now to break down the very latest hi andrew. so why wasn't this charge dismissed because i was under the impression that there was no proof that he actually is the enemy well what happened was you know this case is three and a half years at the making at this point almost and you know the government's long and saying ok manning you waited the enemy because you want to wiki leaks you gave them files those files got the internet and then osama bin ladin dialed up his modem and. those papers and because of that we can send you away to prison and you see for the rest of life and you left because a lot people think that's kind of funny that by using the internet and sharing documentation that has never been proven to cause any harm you're not really aiding the enemy right so that was that was the defense's argument and they said you know this is a bit preposterous and when you know this trial has been going on actually only happening for a c