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WikiLeaks' Afghanistan Documents: Was Bradley Manning the Source?

Jul 26, 2010 – 5:05 PM
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Dana Chivvis

Dana Chivvis Contributor

(July 26) -- WikiLeaks' release of a trove of Afghan War documents has put the spotlight back on Bradley Manning, the 22-year-old Army private now imprisoned in Kuwait, accused of leaking classified State Department documents and the infamous "Collateral Murder" video to the activist website.

The Wall Street Journal reports today that the Pentagon is investigating whether Manning also allegedly leaked the approximately 90,000 secret reports pertaining to the war in Afghanistan made public Sunday in the latest scoop for Australian Julian Assange and his site.

Adrian Lamo, the hacker who turned Manning in to authorities in May after a series of online conversations with him, told "Good Morning America" this morning that he suspects Manning was the source of the leak. Lamo then thickened the plot, adding that the data dump was such that he doesn't think the Army intelligence analyst had the technical expertise to do it alone.

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