Robert Zemeckis lives in a Thomas Kinkade-style cottage in the wealthy creek-side district of the Uncanny Valley, a neighborhood where everything looks like a Parisian Christmas as reenacted by Precious Moments kids. At least, I imagine that’s where his hate mail goes—notes about the terribleness of matte-eyed, computer-generated movie protagonists with A-list voices, plus maybe a postcard from Disney about how they’re kicking Zemeckis’ production company off the lot. Zemeckis—who made killer stuff like Back to the Future and Forrest Gump before mo-cap disasters The...

Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, left, is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Friday, Dec. 16, 2011, after the first day of a military hearing that will determine if he should face court-martial for his alleged role in the WikiLeaks classified leaks case. Manning is suspected of being the source in one of the largest unauthorized disclosures of classified information in U.S. history. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

FT. MEADE, Maryland – A government digital forensic expert linked accused Army leaker Bradley Manning to documents published by WikiLeaks with damning evidence Sunday, testifying that h...