A national defense analyst and Pentagon advisor suggests the Army private accused of giving classified documents to an online whistleblower was already a security risk because of his alleged lifestyle.
Private Bradley Manning was charged in July for leaking classified material, including a video posted by WikiLeaks of a 2007 U.S. Apache helicopter attack in Baghdad that killed a Reuters News photographer and his driver. But Manning is suspected of leaking troves of other material to the site, which is in the process of posting more than 250,000 secret U.S. State Department cables.
Lt. Col. Bob Maginnis (USA-Ret.) points out that some disturbing reports about the Army intelligence specialist have surfaced....