- New York 11/28/2012 by Andrea Sears (WBAI)

Bradley Manning, the army private accused of delivering massive amounts classified documents to Wikileaks, is in a military courtroom in Fort Meade, Maryland this week for an important pre-trial hearing.Manning’s attorney is seeking to have the charges thrown out, based on the conditions of his client’s confinement at a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Virginia.WBAI's Andrea Sears spoke with Michael Ratner, former president of the Center for Constitutional Rights, which is representing Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.