Mediagazer: Manning Says Secrecy Dooms Fair Trial (Adam Klasfeld/Courthouse News Service)

9:10 AM ET, April 24, 2012

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Adam Klasfeld / Courthouse News Service:

Manning Says Secrecy Dooms Fair Trial — Days before the next discovery hearing, the lead attorney for alleged Wikileaks source Pfc. Bradley Manning criticized the government's “cataclysmic” withholding of evidence. “This case shows a cataclysmic failing of the government to understand …

Michael Rundle / Huffington Post UK:

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David Kenner / Foreign Policy:

The death of a newspaper — It's an old story: Journalists tend to see their occupation as a calling, and investors see newspapers as a business. At Egypt's only independent English-language print daily, the balance sheets won out. — Daily News Egypt announced yesterday that it was closing after over seven years in business.