After being informed of the news and reading about it, i realized that this was something that needed doing (your mileage, of course, may vary), and that suppor

After being informed of the news and reading about it, i realized that this was something that needed doing (your mileage, of course, may vary), and that supporters might be vulnerable to scams. I quickly found that there was already a "freedpr" website out there asking for Bitcoin donations with no information whatsoever identifying the operator, so I said to myself: "Gotta do it." Incidentally, the Bradley Manning work I did was hundreds of hours without me taking a dime. I resigned my membership of the Support Network steering committee about a year after getting the thing booted up, confident that the rest of the members had things well in hand.