It wasn’t until 1969 that the Supreme Court’s modern First Amendment jurisprudence made it clear that whenever there is a clash between the government and a person over the constitutionality of the person’s speech, the courts will give every benefit and draw every inference to the speaker, and none to the government. This is so because the freedom of speech is a natural right; it is also expressly protected by the Constitution, and thus, it is always to be presumed constitutional and lawful.
The video also contained audio that revealed the cavalier, childish and remorseless attitude of the military personnel who perpetrated the deaths of these innocents. He was sentenced to 35 years in a military prison. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted the sentence of Mr. Manning, now Chelsea Manning, to time served, and he was ordered released just hours before the inauguration of Donald Trump to the presidency.
The Supreme Court announced this legal principle in the Pentagon Papers case in 1971. There, Daniel Ellsberg, a civilian employee of the Pentagon, stole classified materials that demonstrated that U.S. Army generals had been lying to President Lyndon B. Johnson and Johnson had been lying to the public about military progress during the war in Vietnam.
Ellsberg, like Mr. Manning, was indicted on espionage charges. Yet when the trial judge in Ellsberg’s case learned that the FBI had vandalized the office of his psychiatrist looking for his medical records, the judge dismissed the case.
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