U.S. Can't Link Private Manning To Wikileaks . . . Too Bad!

According to NBC, the U.S. Govt can't link Army private Bradley Manning to Wikileaks, so the bogus case against Assange will ultimately fall apart.  Hopefully, that will turn out to be the case.  From Jim Miklaszewski:

U.S. military officials tell NBC News that investigators have been unable to make any direct connection between a jailed army private suspected with leaking secret documents and Julian Assange, founder of the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks.

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.

The other charge still dogging Assange is the highly questionable sexual misconduct case (frequently misstated as "rape" by the U.S. media).  There are still concerns that if the U.K. folds under Swedish pressure for extradition, the Wikileaks founder would be promptly sent by the conservative Swedes to the U.S. for espionage prosecution.