The US soldier accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to the Wikileaks website has pleaded not guilty to the charge of aiding the enemy. But Bradley Manning ended a guilty plea to lesser charges. Here's Paul Adams.
美国士兵布拉德利·曼宁因涉嫌向维基解密网站泄露数十万份文件而受到指控,对此他答辩称自己并未与外地勾结。但他结束了对另外较轻指控的有罪答辩。保罗·亚当斯报道。
Bradley Manning doesn't deny providing Wikileaks with around half a million classified documents, but he does dispute the charge that he did this to aid America's enemies. As expected he said he was pleading guilty to 10 of the 22 charges against him. If the judge accepts his plea, Private Manning could still face up to 20 years in prison, but not the life sentence the government is seeking. He said he had wanted to start a public debate about the role of the military and about foreign policy in general. The classified documents represented, what he called, the underground realities of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
布拉德利·曼宁并不否认自己向维基解密提供近50万分秘密文件,但他否认这是为了帮助美国的敌人。不出意料,他承认了10到22项指控。如果法官接受其答辩,士兵曼宁将面临20年监禁,但并不是政府希望的终身监禁。他说自己曾希望就军队的角色和整个外交政策进行公开辩论,这些秘密文档说明了他所称的伊拉克和阿富汗战争的“地下事实”。