Remember Namir Noor-Eldeen and Saeed Chmagh Killings Video? Remember how Wikileaks is a major security threat?
Well, now, there's this: U.S. Intelligence Analyst Arrested in Wikileaks Video Probe:
Federal officials have arrested 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, Wired.com has learned.SPC Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, 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.
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