Bradley Manning Not Guilty Of Aiding The Enemy

US soldier Bradley Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy after leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks.

However, a military judge found the intelligence analyst guilty of 19 lesser charges following the two month trial in Fort Meade, Maryland.
These include five espionage and five theft charges, computer fraud and other military infractions, which could see him sentenced to prison for 136 years.
American blogger Xeni Jardin tweeted that Manning flashed a "faint smile" as he was cleared of the most serious accusation - that he knowingly helped enemies of the US, most notably Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.
He had denied this offence, which carried a life sentence without parole.
Manning's lawyer David Coombs said outside court: "We won the battle, now we need to go win the war. Today is a good day, but Bradley is by no means out of the fire."
WikiLeaks described Manning's espionage convictions as "dangerous national security extremism from the Obama administration" on Twitter.
Manning's family said they were "disappointed in today's verdicts but happy that the judge agreed that Bradley never intended to help America's enemies", tweeted a Guardian journalist.
Manning will be sentenced on Wednesday.
The verdict was delivered by Army Colonel Denise Lindfollows after she deliberated for about 16 hours over three days.
The 25-year-old had admitted giving the anti-secrecy website some 700,000 documents, pleading guilty to 10 lesser charges, including espionage and computer fraud.
Supporters hailed Manning as a whistleblower while the government called him an anarchist computer hacker and attention-seeking traitor following the most voluminous release of classified material in US history.
Manning has said he leaked the material to expose the US 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 US and he wanted to start a debate on military and foreign policy. He did not testify at his trial.
The material WikiLeaks began publishing in 2010 documented complaints of abuses against Iraqi detainees, a US tally of civilian deaths in Iraq and America's weak support for the government of Tunisia.
Manning supporters said the last disclosure helped trigger the Middle Eastern pro-democracy uprisings known as the Arab Spring.
The Obama administration said the release threatened to expose valuable military and diplomatic sources and strained America's relations with other governments.
Prosecutors said during the trial Manning relied on WikiLeaks and its founder Julian Assange for guidance on what secrets to "harvest" for the organisation.
Federal authorities are looking into whether Assange can be prosecuted.
He has been holed up in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes allegations.
Glenn Greenwald, the journalist who first reported Edward Snowden's disclosure of US surveillance programmes said Manning's acquittal on the most serious charge, represented a "tiny sliver of justice".