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In reply to the discussion: Pfc. Bradley Manning offers guilty plea in Wikileaks case [View all]Ash_F
(5,861 posts)I guess I wasn't clear about that in my post but here is some additional reading on it.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/dec/02/foreign-contractors-hired-dancing-boys
^^^The US diplo's response was to try to hush up the story rather than get the DoJ on it. I guess it would have been 'embarrassing for the organization' to pursue it. Kind of like Penn State.
I don't know if Manning specifically read these leaks. He did say that he was disturbed by many things that he had read in the cables. But there were many things in the cables to be disturbed by and this was just one. Maybe it will come up in trial.
The company in Question was Dyncorp and this is not their first brush with sex trafficking. They did it in Bosnia too.
http://www.salon.com/2002/08/06/dyncorp/