Ron Paul's hero honored with Nobel Peace Prize nomination

 

(Ron Paul calls him a "hero": http://youtu.be/8pbSCT2SE6U )

 

http://news.yahoo.com/wikileaks-whistleblower-bradley-manning-nominated-nobel-peace-prize-121913478.html

 

WikiLeaks Whistleblower Bradley Manning Nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

By Lauren Indvik | Mashable – Mon, Feb 27, 2012

 

 

Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army private accused of leaking classified U.S. information to WikiLeaks in 2010, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize.

Manning was arrested in May 2010 after allegedly leaking more than 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables, 400,000 U.S. Army reports about Iraq and another 90,000 about Afghanistan, as well as the material used in the "Collateral Murder" video produced by WikiLeaks. He was detained for nine months -- first in solitary confinement at the Marine Corps Brig in Quantico, Va., and then at a medium-security military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. -- for nine months before formal charges were brought against himlast week.

 

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