dan choi

Former Lt. Dan Choi and Daniel Ellsberg were barred Monday from the hearing of Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, and the ACLU says it will challenge the seizure of the computer of another Manning supporter.

The attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army soldier suspected of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, spent the first day of a key hearing Friday trying to get the presiding officer thrown off the case.

Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, organizers said.