Update:  I’m glad to seemingly be the first on TD to announce this:  According to The Guardian and NBC.:
  According to NBC News:

“The officials say that while investigators have determined that Manning had allegedly unlawfully downloaded tens of thousands of documents onto his own computer and passed them to an unauthorized person, there is apparently no evidence he passed the files directly to Assange, or had any direct contact with the controversial WikiLeaks figure.

“If accurate, then US authorities have no realistic chance of successfully prosecuting or extraditing Assange for the leak of thousands of classified documents.

“NBC also reported that the commander of Manning’s military jail at the Quantico US Marine base exceeded his authority in placing the private on suicide watch last week, and that army lawyers had the restrictions removed.”

We still have to be concerned about Manning, however, because of the previous evidence of unmerciful and unjustified treatment for the last 7 months.

Thanks a bunch for referring us to this particular issue of the Brad Blogs about the actual benign nature of the Wikileaks and how the government has overblown prophesies of danger.  The later release of the so-called “Palestine Papers” via Al Jazeera TV, not Wikileaks, throws further needed light on that troubled situation.  Here’s hoping that democratically-minded people everywhere will see the valua and the necessity for broad circulation of information that is too often kept secret. People can never learn to govern themselves if relevant information is bottled up at the top.
  Meantime never forget that the courageous soldier, Bradley is still suffering (now for 7 months) at the hands of “military justice” and hasn’t even been formally charged. If you respect justice, at least work to get him out of solitary immediately.  A friend who had been allowed to visit him once a month previously was denied visitation last week for no apparent reason—just more punishment. (PS Just to avoid possible confusion, Brad Blog is different from Bradley Manning).