The military trial of U.S. Army Private Bradley Manning began Monday. He is charged with violating the Espionage Act by knowingly leaking thousands of classified documents to the Wikileaks whistleblower website . The documents, including sensitive State Department cables and classified military logs from Iraq and Afghanistan, comprised one of the largest breaches of security in U.S. history. Shortly after Wikileaks began posting the material online in May 2010, Manning, an intelligence analyst serving in Iraq, was detained by military authorities and has been held in solitary confinement since. Although he has already admitted leaking the documents and pleaded guilty to some of the charges, his closely watched trial is expected to last the summer. What Is Wikileaks? International not-for-profit group that publishes anonymously-submitted material online. Published leaks includes internal documents from the Church of Scientology, secret memos targeting corruption in the Kenyan g...
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