NBC News reports:
U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.
The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.
Meanwhile, the latest of the Doha Debates revealed overwhelming support for WikiLeaks among young Arabs:
Arab youth have overwhelmingly embraced the WikiLeaks phenomenon and told their governments to stop lying to them.
In the latest Doha Debate an audience of mostly Arab and Muslim students supported the motion: This House believes the world is better off with Wikileaks, by a margin of 74 to 26 percent.
The highly-charged debate was held weeks after the whistle-blowing website published confidential US diplomatic cables, exposing official corruption in several Middle East states and a yawning gap between the private and public positions of Arab rulers on Iran.
A student won instant applause when he said: “I would rather live in a world where I am told the truth than in a world where I am told lies”. Another female student from Qatar asked: “Is it really that wrong to know the truth?”
What a marvellous post! Two pieces of good news in one post. I realise that most of what I read is gloom and doom, but like the Arab students, I prefer to know the truth.
So, the U.S.Military can’t make a connection, but someone else is responsible! Chalk this up to another failure of the U.S. Intelligence gathering agencies. $Billions are spent, yet they can’t find the person who passed the crap on. I’m still of the opinion that this is an inside job, to clean out the trash, especially left over from the previous administration. Unfortunately, the present one doesn’t seem to be any better. Too bad.