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Soldier pleads guilty in WikiLeaks case

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    Geraldo Rivera gives an update on the Pfc. Bradley Manning/WikiLeaks case

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It tonight the US soldier who violated national security by providing classified information to the -- website Wiki -- Has pleaded guilty to receive -- twenty years in prison.

Joining us now from New York to update it's.

-- rolled over there so what this weasel plead guilty to.

He pled guilty bill to the less serious charges there are 22 charges in all.

He pled guilty to -- ten that really had to do with kind of the general information that was out there.

Like -- most famous video from Baghdad in 2007.

Where US helicopter took out a group of men they thought were al-Qaeda turned out they were -- a Reuters reporter and two other civilians.

It's that -- it's him having access.

Unauthorized access to this classified material posting it on the Internet providing it to week he leaks he pleads guilty to the ten.

Last the serious charge is.

He's facing up to twenty years as you suggest the reason he pled guilty to those less serious charges.

Is that if he were tried in a civilian court.

Ironically bill.

He would -- even those ten less serious charges have been facing over ninety years in prison so he allows the military hearing to accept the guilty plea to attend less serious charges but and this is the big but he's still facing twelve charges of aiding.

The enemy in this is a lot more out of it -- this is treason.

Right and that'll be a a military court as well now just so people know this Bradley Manning and what he did he was in Iraq.

All right he's some kind of gave militant guy and I guess that was -- that it wasn't being treated the way wanted to be traded.

But he put out information that included the names of Afghans who were helping the US military and that get get them killed.

-- to government says that in the raid on a hole on bin Laden's compound.

In Pakistan.

They actually found.

Some material that that Manning had given Wiki -- and Osama -- laden.

According to the government was asking for more material from him -- this -- some little -- this is a pretty big deal.

Well the -- I'll I'll argue if you want on whether or not substantively at -- what he aided the enemy clearly Osama bin Laden.

Thought -- Bradley Manning was important he wanted.

Access to this bacterial.

That Manning was posting on the Internet through week he leaks and win the the seal team six.

I heroes busted into bin Laden's compound -- in Pakistan they did discover much of the material that Bob Bradley Manning had leaked.

Through week he leaks.

The question I have though is when you look at the big picture.

Putting aside the emotion of the moment in the past -- we want to.

We want to string this guy up he's a trader in wartime aiding the enemy what was -- he really accomplish this.

Private first class Bradley Manning did he.

Aid the enemy in the sense that he gave them the upper hand did is that actions result in the death of any GIs for example.

And -- US diplomats were example.

I don't think any of that is proven that's all I am a little curious they got -- now -- -- quantity it seems to me they could have gotten and to plead to twice that.

But now they're going all out they're gonna have.

Dozens and dozens of witnesses they may prove their case it is speculated on this is interest thing.

That one of the members of the team that raided.

The bin Laden compound will make a surprise appearance.

At the military.

Tribunal at the the military court and testified that when he busted into bin Laden's offices or the digital material they -- -- remember -- and -- those file cabinets.

That that material contained Manning stopped that of -- and -- -- specifically.

After the government alleges they realized that raises the question is whether there is that you're it has.

The reason they're doing this is sent a message to other people you better not do this you make an example out of this -- that's -- -- -- Real quick story I was down and last summer at DO west very theater on Long Island.

Seeing Crosby stills and national committee -- protest singers in the 60s70s.

-- they wrote a song a protest songs and Bradley Manning is a great guy.

And why we prosecute persecuting him about a third of the west very audience walked out.

Now might have been because it was a terrible song.

I'm not -- but I think it was hey you guys are -- heads nobody should stick up for somebody trying to hurt their country last word Rivera well I.

I think that the reason he generates any sympathy at all is that the war was so deeply unpopular the war in Iraq he is seen as a martyr to the anti war cause and he was he was held on their abysmal conditions in solitary and all the rest of it I can understand how they tried to get the sympathy for him.

But as a -- he doesn't deserve much sympathy -- I still think forty years in prison is enough.

For Bradley Manning.

Yeah that's -- I'm not if he gets for me I'm fine with -- We're although everybody want to go right back Chris.

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