Australia closely monitoring Manning prosecution: Foreign Minister Bob Carr says the idea the United States wishes to extradite Julian Assange is “sheer fantasy”. Despite this, the Australian embassy in Washington has continued to closely monitor the prosecution of US Army private Bradley Manning for leaking to the WikiLeaks publisher.
An Australian diplomatic cable released to Fairfax Media under freedom of information law shows an Australian embassy staffer attended the pre-trial hearing at Fort Meade Maryland on February 27-28 at which private Manning pleaded guilty to leaking thousands of secret documents to WikiLeaks. The Australian embassy has been the only foreign embassy in Washington to regularly attend hearings in the Manning case.
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