p.f.c. bradley manning. the case of recruiting suspect bradley manning today it's the first step in a legal process that could end with a life sentence for a u.s. soldier accused of leaking a trove of military and diplomatic documents private manning who turned twenty four tomorrow is to peer in a court martial in maryland in an intense debate over the merits of the allegations that leave records as having been there like that for many was apprehended in iraq in two thousand and ten on suspicion of giving without permission thousands of classified documents to the whistle blowing website we can wait. the documents were subsequently published worldwide and led to the controversial revelation of diplomatic and military secrets including possible war crimes for the last eighteen months the soldier has been held in pretrial detention much of it in solitary confinement under conditions that have drawn the attention of amnesty international and the american civil liberties union i have actually asked the pentagon w

p.f.c. bradley manning's article thirty two hearing at fort meade maryland will begin could last all the way until friday december twenty third and according to the defense department a hearing is closely akin to the civilian grand jury investigation and alternately decide whether or not the military has enough evidence to charge manning with the crimes that he's been accused of including the most serious charge of aiding the enemy now much like a civilian court each side is going to be able to call witnesses and make motions although unlike a civilian court the military exercises very tight control over the written filings and quite unlike a civilian court the trial be presided over by an investigative officer instead of a judge as we've previously mentioned on this show although the defense is allowed to call witnesses the government has come out against an overwhelming majority of those requested by bradley manning's defense team now some of those include president obama and even the secretary of state hillary clinton so as we discussed last week on the show the u.s. government is choosin

p.f.c. bradley manning is fighting more than just an uphill battle and it comes to planning their case for the hearing at fort meade on december sixteenth turns out that thirty eight people the mannings defense attorney david combs has requested for this article thirty two hearing as witnesses have been denied by the government the only ones the government has been opposed are those who are also being sought out by the government as witnesses so just last week we reported the defense was calling on hillary clinton to speak about how critical the leak of diplomatic cables really it was for the u.s. and they're also calling on president obama to respond to this comment that he made during a fundraiser in san francisco comment that makes manning appear guilty before any mention of a trial. now as expected both clinton and obama are going to be appearing because they're considered too important however colmes is hoping to take depositions from both the president and the secretary of state but the two most high profile witnesses requested are not the only ones the government objects to according to

p.f.c. bradley manning is set to appear in a military hearing on december sixteenth in fort meade maryland will be the first time he will publicly get to hear the arguments by both the government and the defense and with the trial just eleven days away the defense is requesting quite a high profile list of witnesses to appear before the military jury two of which are president barack obama and secretary of state hillary clinton managed to fence attorney david combs just filed a report saying that both obama and clinton could provide evidence that could help manning in this article thirty two hearing which would determine if this case should be referred for a full scale court martial now comes up like the president to appear based on this comment that he made about manning at a fundraiser back in april. we don't give a good. lawyer. now the defense alleges that obama's public comments regarding manning are considered unlawful command influence see the attorneys filing goes on to explain that obama acts as the commander in chief for the armed forces and under the uniform code of military justice