Bradley Manning's pre-trial hearing: live-blogging, live-tweeting, and live-sketching

Kevin Gosztola is liveblogging the pre-trial hearing of suspected Wikileaks source Bradley Manning at Ft. Meade.

Also in the courtoom, the Guardian's Ed Pilkington, and Arun Rath of Frontline/PRI's The World, both of whom live-tweeted the proceedings today.

Artist Clark Stoeckley (@WikileaksTruck on Twitter) is also present, and is live-sketching. I like his coverage the best.

Defense: David Coombs, Bradley Manning, Major Thomas Hurley, Captain Joshua Tooman. (by Clark Stoeckley)

Prosecution Legal Aid. (by Clark Stoeckley)

Media (by Clark Stoeckley)

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ChicagoD

I need one of them legal aide jobs. Get free clothes to sit in court reading magazines and get paid. Kaboom!
- abstract_reg
  
  Is that a magazine or a censored document?
Brainspore

I like how everyone in the media has South Park hands.
orwell

i’d like to see clark draw tippy
http://burntheflag.ca Jardine

Why is Bill Gates there?
- Just_Ok
  
  Defense intends to argue that this was all the result of a virus that Bill could have prevented.
http://grumer.org/ Avram Grumer

PFC Manning looks kinda like Tintin in that drawing of the defense team, sitting next to Bull from Night Court.
swlabr

Excellent sketching.
Boundegar

Wait, is this part of the taxidermy post?
kadybat

Why are we still using the name “Bradley” for this soldier? It’s quite clear from what we know that she prefers Breeana and female pronouns, and I think it’s only fair that the press refers to her as such.
- http://twitter.com/Brainspore Tim Harrington
  
  “From what we know” meaning from confidential communications or from verified public statements to that effect? Manning’s own defense team still seems to be using “Bradley.” We should certainly respect Private Manning’s wishes, but that also means waiting until he/she makes those wishes clear.
- abstract_reg
  
  Bradley isn’t out until he is out. He will be Bradley until he tells the press otherwise.
kallikanzaros

These are not sketches…. they look pretty overworked (look at all that charcoal on those military suits… look at that wood texture).
They look pretty cool BTW… if they were made by a 8 year old kid!
http://twitter.com/trempls tré

Dear Boing Boing,

I’m asking you from the bottom of my queer queer heart to at least address, publicly, how you’re going to handle Private Manning’s gender identity in your coverage. I’m honestly confused and a little hurt because I’ve always thought of Boing Boing as an inherently safe space for LGBTQ folks.

Yours queerly,
A Concerned Reader
sburns54

I never realized he was a (former) thalidomide baby until I saw that first drawing.