Defense presents video in Manning WikiLeaks trial

[The Straight Story]

FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) -- Lawyers for an Army private who gave mountains of classified information to WikiLeaks opened their defense at his court-martial Monday with leaked video of a U.S. helicopter attack in Baghdad - footage that portrayed the military in a negative light.

The video is the basis of an espionage charge alleging Pfc. Bradley Manning had unauthorized possession of national defense information.

Manning has admitted to leaking the 39-minute cockpit video showing a 2007 attack that killed 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. On it, the aircrew can be heard laughing and calling the victims "dead bastards." Manning has said he was troubled by their behavior and by the U.S. military's refusal to release it.

The Pentagon concluded that the troops reasonably mistook the journalists for enemy combatants. WikiLeaks posted it in April 2010 under the title "Collateral Murder."

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1. how does that justify the embassy cable dump?

which is what he is on trial for.

[premium]

2. It doesn't. nt.

[The Straight Story]

3. Reading through the article

They are showing a pattern with the military and how it is run, probably going to argue that while he did release information he should be seen as a whistleblower and protected.