Soldier trial 2013

Posts on HikeLemmon. Near the start of the Soldier Trail. March Drive Soldier Trail Elevation Profile. Driving Directions. August Coombs said Manning struggled privately with gender identity early in his tour of duty, when gays could not openly serve in the military. Manning apparently downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified US documents onto CDs to smuggle them out of secure military surroundings in Iraq in , according to testimony heard on Monday.

Thomas Smith, an army investigator, was the first to take the stand after opening arguments from the prosecutor and defence attorney. Earlier this year, in a statement Manning read to the court during pre-trial hearings, he explained why he put the stickers onto the CDs. Much of the evidence is classified, which means large portions of the trial are likely to be closed to reporters and the public. Federal authorities are looking into whether Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks founder, can also be prosecuted.

The case is the most prominent prosecution for the Obama administration, which has been criticised for its crackdown on leakers. The WikiLeaks case is by far the most voluminous release of classified material in US history, and certainly the most sensational since the publication of the Pentagon Papers, a secret Defence Department history of US involvement in Vietnam.

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