David SchanzerAssociate Professor of the Practice of Public Policy, Sanford School of Public PolicyDirector, Triangle Center of Terrorism and Homeland Security, Duke University(919) 357-0128 (cell); schanzer@duke.eduhttp://fds.duke.edu/db/Sanford/schanzerSchanzer is an attorney who teaches courses on counterterrorism strategy, counterterrorism law and homeland security. Prior to his academic appointments, he was the Democratic staff director for the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security from 2003 to 2005. His positions in the executive branch include special counsel, Office of General Counsel, Department of Defense (1998-2001) and trial attorney, U.S. Department of Justice (1992-1994). He last wrote about the Manning case in March: http://islamicommentary.org/2013/03/david-schanzer-the-big-question-rais...Quote:"Manning's conviction today on 19 counts, with a maximum punishment of over 100 years, sends an important message that leakers of classified information are breaking the law -- regardless of whether they are doing so to expose what they believe to be governmental wrongdoing."The not guilty verdict on the government's charge of aiding the enemy shows that the prosecutors were overreaching. Their theory that anyone who contributes to information getting on the Internet is communicating with the enemy was simply out of touch with the modern era and would have been a serious blow to freedom of the press."
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