FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — A military judge on Monday ordered Army prosecutors to account for their actions amid accusations they withheld evidence from lawyers for an Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.
The ruling by Col. Denise Lind was a partial victory for Pfc. Bradley Manning’s defense team, which claimed prosecutors have shirked their duty to share evidence including written assessments by various government agencies of the damage done by WikiLeaks’ online publication of hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and war logs. Manning is charged with aiding al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula by sending the material to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
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