Jailed soldier suspected in WikiLeaks whistleblower case

The Pentagon is focusing on jailed Army Pfc. Bradley Manning as the main suspect in the leak of tens of thousands of secret U.S. military documents related to the war in Afghanistan.

…The senior Pentagon official told CNN that for now, Defense Secretary Robert Gates is relying on the Army criminal investigation into Manning and the leaks to determine how it happened and what might need to be done to prevent future cases. “The secretary is determined to get to the bottom of this,” the official said. The editor in chief of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has refused to say where his whistle-blower website got about 91,000 United States documents about the war. Some 76,000 of them were posted on the site Sunday in what has been called the biggest leak since the Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War. The Pentagon has said it has not seen any top-secret information in any of the papers, and both the Defense Department and the White House say they don’t contain much new information about the war, now nearly nine years old. Maj. Gen. John Campbell, the U.S. commander in eastern Afghanistan, told reporters Wednesday that he doesn’t believe the release has had “a great impact currently on us.” “We have…

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Jailed soldier suspected in WikiLeaks whistleblower case

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