By John Solomon
How the government's punishing of the exposure of official wrongdoing can linger for years

Prosecutors say they will accept an Army private's guilty plea to a lesser version of one of the 22 counts he faces.

A military judge cleared the way Wednesday for a member of the team that raided Osama bin Laden's compound to testify in the trial of an Army private charged in a massive leak of U.S. secrets.

China's new ambassador to the United States, Cui Tiankai, arrived in Washington this week and takes up the key diplomatic post with a notable past of diplomatic activities, as detailed in leaked classified State Department cables from 2006 and 2010.

A whistleblower and press-freedom advocacy group has posted leaked audio of Pfc. Bradley Manning's testimony about his motives for leaking secret U.S. government documents and videos to WikiLeaks — the first time the public has heard his voice since his 2010 arrest.
It may not have been her intention, but the public editor of The New York Times transported me back to those heady days of my youth, when I attended anti-war rallies and protested against the Nixon administration. Margaret Sullivan was too young to experience those days, but she apparently wants to live them vicariously.

Pfc. Bradley Manning, 25, pleaded guilty to misusing classified material on Thursday, but he declined to plead on the more serious charge — aiding the enemy, according to a report by The Associated Press.

An Army private charged in the biggest leak of classified material in U.S. history offered guilty pleas Thursday to 10 of 22 charges against him and a military judge said she would allow the soldier to read a statement explaining his actions.

A military judge says she will rule later Tuesday on a motion to dismiss all charges against an Army private charged with sending reams of classified documents to the WikiLeaks website.

A former Marine Corps brig commander said on Monday that her decision to have underwear removed from an Army private charged in the WikiLeaks case prompted a request that she run future orders involving Pfc. Bradley Manning up the chain of command before executing them.

Some former guards at the Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., are testifying against an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the secret-spilling WikiLeaks website.

An Army private charged with leaking classified material to WikiLeaks said Friday that he tied a bedsheet into a noose while considering suicide during his pretrial confinement in Kuwait.

An Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history is trying to avoid trial by claiming he already was punished enough when he was locked up alone in a small cell and forced to sleep naked for several nights.
A fundraising campaign by secret-busting website WikiLeaks drew the ire of many within the Anonymous movement Friday, sparking an online spat which suggests a rift between WikiLeaks chief Julian Assange and some of his most vigorous supporters.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urged President Barack Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website, appearing in public Sunday for the first time since he took refuge two months ago inside Ecuador's Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex crimes allegations.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called on President Obama to end a so-called "witch hunt" against his secret-spilling website as he appeared in public Sunday for the first time since he took refuge two months ago inside the Ecuadorean Embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden on sex-crimes allegations.
The cable was among more than 700,000 secret U.S. documents Manning acknowledged sending to the WikiLeaks site.
Manning has acknowledged sending to the
Bin Laden raid member allowed to testify in Pfc. Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks trial →