• BBC attempts to smear Bradley Manning post conviction with article about his 'disrupted' family life
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[QUOTE][B]The trial of Bradley Manning has cast light on how he came to leak thousands of classified documents, and on his troubled childhood in a family splintered by divorce and alcoholism. [/B] Susan Manning liked vodka - it was easier to hide. "If you put vodka in certain drinks, you can't really smell it," said her daughter, Casey Major, in a courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland, last week. She also liked rum and beer - and, really, whatever was in the house. When she got pregnant for the second time, friends and family had mixed feelings. One relative, Debra Van Alstyne, testifying in court, said: "At first I said, 'Oh great.' Then I thought, 'Oh no.'" At the time, Major was 11. Sitting in the witness stand, Major, now 36 and a homemaker who lives in Oklahoma City, counted on her fingers - adding up the weeks that her mother was pregnant - and drinking. She put her hands in her lap.[/QUOTE] Source: [URL]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-23780581[/URL] Because if you release state secrets you obviously can't be normal and your mother must have drank during pregnancy...
How is this a smear? This seems more like the opposite, garnering sympathy for Manning.
I thought the article was going to be about a BBC article, not just your opinion on a BBC article.
If Manning used any of this as some sort of defence they it can't really be a smear to talk about it.
[QUOTE=Pepsi-cola;41926591]If Manning used any of this as some sort of defence they it can't really be a smear to talk about it.[/QUOTE] Yeah, I don't understand. It explicitly states this is what was said in the courtroom. What the hell, OP?
Sounds like someone is a Daily Mail reader.
It's on the first goddamn line, the [B]trial[/B] has cast light, not the BBC
Seems not even the OP bothers to read the actual news article nowadays. [editline]22nd August 2013[/editline] We might as well not even post articles; just have a slogan generator for each major political ideology or world issue, some cocaine, a baseball bat for each poster and a Thunderdome.
OP you don't care about him at all do you? You just want to post something that makes the BBC look bad whilst failing horribly to do so.
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