10th Mountain Division Soldier Focus of Wikileaks Investigation

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By Kris Rusho

Story Published: Jul 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM EDT

Story Updated: Jul 28, 2010 at 8:52 AM EDT

He has been charged with leaking a secure video to Wikileaks and now, Pfc. Bradley Manning is charged with getting the classified Afghanistan reports to the same website.

According to the LA Times, Manning, 22, "was charged in May with illegally downloading classified material, is believed to have had access to the leaked reports on Afghanistan that were posted on the WikiLeaks web site Sunday, according to one of the officials."

"The more than 76,000 reports, many of them brief and routine, provide new details about Pakistani intelligence agencies' assistance to Afghan insurgents, corruption in the U.S.-backed Kabul government, and numerous incidents of U.S. troops accidentally killing civilians. WikiLeaks says it has another 15,000 classified documents it is still vetting."

The investigation is continuing as Manning was originally charged with leaking a video that shows Apache pilots in Iraq killing journalists who were mistaken for insurgents.

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