-
Login
-
Digital Edition
-
Print Edition
- Most Commented
- Most Commented
- Most Emailed
- Most Emailed
- Popular
- Popular
« News Home
Michael Moore praises suspected WikiLeaks source
TweetHAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Filmmaker Michael Moore is praising an Army private suspected of releasing classified war records to WikiLeaks and said he would contribute to his defense.
Moore tells The Associated Press in an interview that he considers Pfc. Bradley Manning a courageous patriot for exposing what Moore called “war crimes.”
The Oscar-winning filmmaker said Thursday he will contribute to a legal defense fund for the 22-year-old former intelligence analyst, who faces up to 52 years in prison.
Manning is charged with leaking video of a U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed 11, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. Investigators call Manning a person of interest in the release of 77,000 Afghanistan war logs that WikiLeaks published online in July.
Comments
Of course he praises them. Now he can make more weird movies.
GOD he is a idiot!
Michael Moore praises coliform bacteria because he can relate to it !
bad things like collateral damage incidents happen in wars and they may seem to be in need of being exposed by enlisted people with a narrow view, but all of the consequences also need to be considered, because if private manning's leak results in the death of tribal leaders who were working with the allies, then those deaths and the loss of our allies in the fight against the taliban are all directly attributable to private manning and wikileaks. this would be a ghastly mistake on both their parts, the young enlisted man could be incarcerated for years, and wikileaks needs to be give the deep six. michael moore is showing poor judgment as well, and he is obviously driven more by his lust for money than by patriotism.