Maryland: Manning Trial Looks at Address Disclosures

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Source: NY Times


By EMMARIE HUETTEMAN
Published: June 17, 2013

Prosecutors laid the groundwork on Monday for trying to prove that Pfc. Bradley Manning gave WikiLeaks the e-mail addresses of more than 70,000 troops deployed in Iraq, a charge to which he has pleaded not guilty ... Defense lawyers countered that downloading the e-mail addresses of fellow military personnel was not against the rules ...

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/18/us/maryland-manning-trial-looks-at-address-disclosures.html

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WikiLeaks breach included secret details on Guantanamo prisoners -- official
By Medina Roshan
FORT MEADE, Md., June 17 | Tue Jun 18, 2013 1:33am IST

... Data released by Private First Class Bradley Manning included biographical material on Guantanamo prisoners, details of their religious affiliation, and names of their relatives with extremist links, Rear Admiral David Woods, who ran the Guantanamo operation in 2011 and 2012, told Manning's court martial ...

Woods said in a statement read into the court record that he had reviewed five assessments of detainees released by Manning.

Vice Admiral Robert Harward, the deputy commander for the Central Command, which covers the Middle East and Afghanistan, testified that he had reviewed about 120 leaked documents, including material about a 2009 airstrike in Afghanistan that killed dozens of civilians.

The files "contained information that if released, reasonably could be expected to cause serious damage to the national security of the United States," Harward said in a statement read into the record ...

http://in.reuters.com/article/2013/06/17/usa-wikileaks-manning-idINL2N0ET0BX20130617