U.S. Soldier Arrested in WikiLeaks Inquiry After Tip From Former Hacker

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Wired’s Threat Level blog reported late Sunday that “an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site WikiLeaks,” was arrested by the Pentagon.

The leaked video, which was filmed in Baghdad in 2007 during an operation that killed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, was published online by WikiLeaks in April.

Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Threat Level wrote:

Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Md., was stationed at Forward Operating Base Hammer, 40 miles east of Baghdad, where he was arrested nearly two weeks ago by the Army’s Criminal Investigation Division. A family member says he’s being held in custody in Kuwait and has not been formally charged.

Manning was turned in late last month by a former computer hacker with whom he spoke online. In the course of their chats, Manning took credit for leaking a headline-making video of a helicopter attack that WikiLeaks posted online in April.
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How do you wanna have a site like wikileaks when people narc on the guys who are doing the leaking. A bit self-defeating isin't it?
 
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