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August 9, 2010

Peace Groups Rally to Support Accused Army Whistleblower Bradley Manning
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A coalition of peace groups held a rally outside the Quantico Marine
Corps Base in Virginia Sunday to show support for Private First Class
Bradley Manning. Manning is the Army intelligence analyst being held on
charges that he leaked classified documents including a video of a US
military helicopter killing a group of people in Baghdad. Manning is
also a suspect in the leaking of the Afghan war logs that were published
by the whistleblowing website Wiki Leaks last month. Speakers at the
rally included Ray Mc Govern, who served as a CIA analyst for
twenty-seven years. Mc Govern praised Bradley Manning for releasing the
classified documents.

Ray Mc Govern: "He was not afraid to face the unknown, not afraid to
resist the seduction of conformity, not afraid to follow his conscience,
and not afraid, most important for us today, not afraid to give us the
wherewithal so that we can have enough information to follow our own
consciences." (Video from William Hughes; see more video from rally
here)



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