Witness: leaked cables contained classified info

[struggle4progress]

By DAVID DISHNEAU

(FORT MEADE, Md., AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning disclosed potentially damaging classified information in at least 117 of the more than 250,000 State Department cables he has acknowledged sending to WikiLeaks, according to evidence prosecutors presented at his court-martial Thursday ...

In written testimony read aloud by a prosecutor, classification expert Nicholas Murphy listed 96 cables that he said had been properly classified as “confidential” and 21 properly classified as “secret.” His testimony revealed for the first time the specific cables that are the basis for a federal Computer Fraud and Abuse Act charge that is among 21 counts the former intelligence analyst faces.

The globe-spanning reports include at least six sent from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad from 2006 to 2009. One from Jan. 5, 2007, reported that Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki “is increasingly willing to allow targeted military action against elements of Moqtada al-Sadr’s Jaish al-Mahdi militia and other Sadr organizations.”

A confidential Dec. 14, 2007, cable from the U.S. embassy in Moscow reported on a consensus among Russian political observers on “a need for the Kremlin to reform itself and reverse a pendulum that has swung too far in favor of state authority” ...

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[msanthrope]

1. Poor Bradley. He's been forgotten. nt

[Purveyor]

2. Paula Deen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen, Paula Deen,....eom