The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning’s trial. In addition, they’ve denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press pass, it’s virtually impossible for media organizations to accurately cover the trial and for the public to know what the government is doing in its name.
In response, Freedom of the Press Foundation has crowd-sourced funding to place a professional stenographer in the media room covering the trial. We will post full transcripts shortly after each day’s proceedings end. The morning session with be posted by 7 pm the same evening. The afternoon session will be posted by 9 am the next morning. The transcripts will be released under an Attribution 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
For more information on these crowd-sourced transcripts, click here.
| Date | Transcript |
|---|---|
| June 3, 2013 |  06-03-13 AM session.pdf |
| June 3, 2013 | 06-03-13-PM-session.pdf |
| June 4, 2013 | 06-04-13-AM-session.pdf |
| June 4, 2013 | 06-04-13-PM-session.pdf |
| June 5, 2013 | 06-05-13-AM-session.pdf |
| June 5, 2013 | 06-05-13-PM-session.pdf |
| June 10, 2013 | 06-10-13-AM-session.pdf |
| June 10, 2013 | 06-10-13-PM-session.pdf |
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