ORT MEADE, MD – JULY 30: U.S. Army Private First Class Bradley Manning (R) is escorted by military police as arrives to hear the verdict in his military trial July 30, 2013 at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. Manning, who is charged with aiding the enemy and wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the internet, is accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables to the website WikiLeaks while he was working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010. (Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Bradley Manning, right, is escorted by military police as arrives to hear the verdict in his military trial at Fort Meade, Md. (Getty Images/Mark Wilson)

Bradley Manning, the Army private who admitted to leaking thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks, was found guilty on five counts of espionage and five counts of theft today by a military judge.

Following an eight-week trial at Maryland’s Fort Meade, Judge Denise Lind did not find Manning guilty of “aiding the enemy,” the most serious charge he faced. Despite that small victory, Manning still faces up to or more than 100 years in a military jail. He was convicted of 19 of the 22 charges against him. Sentencing will begin Wednesday.

During closing arguments Thursday, the prosecution argued that Manning wanted “guarantee his fame” by leaking the documents, an act he knew would harm the U.S. Major Ashden Fein said Manning was “not a whistleblower, he was a traitor.” Manning’s lead defense attorney, David Coombs, countered this, saying, “That is a whistleblower. That is somebody that wants to inform the American public.”

Manning supporters who gathered outside Fort Meade today were prepared for the worst. One supporter told Pilkington, “My heart tells me it’s going to be a bad verdict for Bradley and every American citizen.”

A march to the White House in Manning’s honor will begin in Dupont Circle tonight at 8:30 p.m.

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