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Bradley E. Manning (born December 17, 1987) is a United States Army soldier who was arrested in May 2010 in Iraq on suspicion of having passed restricted material to the website WikiLeaks. Manning was charged in July that year with transferring classified data onto a personal computer, and communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source. An additional 22 charges were preferred in March 2011, including "aiding the enemy", a capital offense, though prosecutors said they would not seek the death penalty. Manning was found fit to face court martial in April 2011.[1]
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Bradley Manning | |
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Born | (1987-12-17) December 17, 1987 (age 36) Crescent, Oklahoma, United States |
Occupation(s) | Soldier, United States Army |
Known for | Allegedly passed classified data to WikiLeaks |
Criminal charge(s) | Charges include transferring classified data onto his personal computer; transmitting national defense information to an unauthorized source; aiding the enemy. |
Manning had been assigned in October 2009 to a unit of the 10th Mountain Division, based near Baghdad, and there had access to the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet), used by the United States government to transmit classified information. Manning was arrested after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker, reported to the FBI that Manning had claimed, during online chats in May 2010, to have downloaded material from SIPRNet and passed it to WikiLeaks. The leaked material is said to have included 250,000 U.S. diplomatic cables; footage of a July 2007 Baghdad airstrike; and footage of the May 2009 Granai airstrike in Afghanistan.[2]
Manning was held in maximum custody beginning in July 2010 in the Marine Corps Brig, Quantico, Virginia, which in effect meant solitary confinement, conditions that Amnesty International called harsh and punitive. In April 2011, 295 scholars, including legal scholars and philosophers signed a letter saying the conditions experienced amounted to a violation of the U.S. Constitution; later that month the Pentagon arranged a transfer to a medium-security facility in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, allowing interactions with other pre-trial detainees.[3]
An article 32 hearing started on December 16 in Fort Meade, Maryland.