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struggle4progress

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1. WikiLeaks Case Zooms In on Airstrike Video

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Thu Jun 27, 2013, 03:25 PM

Jun 2013

Thursday, June 27, 2013
Last Update: 11:40 AM PT
By ADAM KLASFELD

... The Pentagon's investigation cleared the pilots by saying that they confused photographer's cameras with guns.

Reuters placed a Freedom of Information Act request to conduct its own investigation into the matter, but the military refused to provide the footage of the incident.

In a public statement before trial, Manning testified that he learned about the video while he was stationed in Iraq as an intelligence specialist ...

He claimed that he knew Reuters wanted the video, and that he was going to send it to them directly before uploading to WikiLeaks ...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/06/27/58903.htm

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