United States vs. Manning

2010-08-01

2010-08-31

		Coombs was particularly interested in learning how the convening authority had become aware of Almanza's name. Almanza was unable to answer that question, stating that he'd received a call in August 2010. [...] Almanza admitted that he was detailed on 12/2 [2011] but continued to work in his civilian position at the Department of Justice until 12/12 [2011], but stated that he did no more work for the DOJ after that. (NB: this issue comes up later...when Coombs states that the defense received an email from Almanza after 12/12 [2011] from Almanza's civilian Department of Justice email account, thus indicated Almanza was still 'wearing the hat' of the DOJ.) [...] Coombs also questioned what impressions Almanza had formed about the case before stepping in as investigating officer. Almanza admitted he had read articles about the case [between August 2010 and December 2011], but that after he had learned he would be detailed to the case had avoided reading articles whose headlines indicated they were about Manning. Almanza said that, when he heard about he case, his initial impression was that if the allegations were true, this was a serious matter. But he insisted that he did not form an opinion based on what he read in the paper because the paper isn't always accurate and isn't always the full story.
	Name(s:)	Rainey Reitman
	Agency(ies):	Bradley Manning Support Network
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	Archive:	http://archive.is/Ug4ld