HAGERSTOWN, Md. – Michael Moore, the Oscar-winning filmmaker, will contribute $5,000 to help defend the Army private suspected of leaking classified documents to an Internet whistle-blower from serving time in prison.

A champion of liberal and left-wing causes, Moore told The Associated Press in a telephone interview he also hopes to make the public understand that Pfc. Bradley Manning exposed what Moore called "war crimes."

"He did a courageous thing and he did a patriotic thing," Moore said.

Manning, 22, faces up to 52 years in prison if convicted of downloading classified material and passing it to an unauthorized person while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.

He is charged with leaking video of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack that killed 11, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. WikiLeaks posted the video on its website in April.

Investigators say Manning also is a person of interest in the release of 77,000 Afghanistan war logs that WikiLeaks published online in July.

U.S. officials say the July disclosures endangered innocent people or confidential informants.

Mike Gogulski, founder of the Bradley Manning Support Network, said he was delighted with Moore's support. The group is raising money for a civilian defense attorney for Manning.

Maj. Thomas F. Hurley, one of Manning's military lawyers, declined to comment.

Moore won the Academy Award for his 2002 documentary, "Bowling for Columbine."

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Figures. Michael Moore is a pice of garbage that praises communist nations like Cuba. He and Sean Penn should just get married and move there or at the very least GO AWAY!

Fat Hairy Sensationalist. I think he is part of the problem. Like in he is payed to do what he does by some government cabinet to keep people from seeing the real evil behind the scenes.

OH AND A WHOLE $5000 DONATION! SUCH A GIVER! I hope the treasonous private gets the firing squad soon! He violated NATIONAL SECURITY!

Complete transparency is a lie!

like mike, disagree with this move though,,

$5,000 is a lot when you think that they guy is represented by military lawyers free of charge.

This is where I draw the line.....I will talk about anything...anytime!!! The only exception in my case is discussing anything that is deemed classified or something that has to do with the security of our countries. And as for moore....It's hard to know if what a conspiracy theorist says is viable. I mean it's possible but....I mean I do see some possibility in what the man tries to show us but I see a lot of crap too.

I say put a Screw Islam and Screw Muhommad t-shirt on him and strap his a$$ to an F-22 and drop him over a Taliban contolled area.

Oh wait nevermind, the F-22 wouldn't be able to take off with him strapped to it. To much weight

then use a b52 lol or a b2

He is a fat pig.

Tie him to a flatbed truck loaded with just enough explosives to make a fat pig go splat. The idea isn't to level the mosque. Drive his fat azz by remote control into a mosque in Mecca or Medina and make piggie go pop defiling a mosque and doing away with a fat hairy looser! The mess of pig parts splattered all over their holy place should send them a clear message. Who is going to Kosher their temple after mopping up Pig Parts, A Rabbi?



They use car bombs, we use Pork Bombs. Why waste the efforts of the Air Force. Let the CIA do their damn job for a change and show Islam what psychological Warfare is all about!

PORK SAMMICH!

id say he is a pork sword!!!

Still not strong or big enough.......... Hell they probably couldn't do it with a C-130.

He wouldn't fit in a flatbed truck. Hell he wouldn't fit in a big rig.

like i said....b52

Not big enought still.

hmmmm....aircraft carrier?

I can't stand looking at Michael Moore or hearing him speak, but at the same time, he's an American, one with a bigger voice tham any of us pleebs.

Call the kid a traitor??? Get real.

by the way, can anybody tell me who was in charge of the CIA when we funded a young arab 'freedom fighter' and helped him bring together people to fight the Russians out of Afghanistan??

anybody?

speaking of traitors that is

William Casey..

I'm not sure where you are going with this..

your way off, dude... they couldn't have russia in charge of afganistan... we needed to control it.

LOL..dude, they only revise history here...which dooms us to see it repeated.

It's hard to revise something that is common knowledge and can be easily checked.

There were 3 directors of the CIA during the soviet afghan war.

Stansfield Turner.. William Casey.. and William Webster..

Take your pick.. Unless there was some shadow CIA director that was kept hidden and then planned the 9-11 attacks..

Do tell..

i thought it was daddy bush...lol