The enormous leak of classified information engineered by Bradley Manning was “heedless” and “imminently dangerous to others”, a military judge has said.

Whistleblower soldier Bradley Manning is facing a substantial prison term today, despite being acquitted by a US military court of the most serious charge against him – aiding the enemy.

A military judge yesterday acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

A military judge has acquitted former US intelligence analyst Bradley Manning of the most serious charge against him, aiding the enemy, but convicted him of espionage, theft and computer fraud charges for giving thousands of classified secrets to the anti-secrecy site WikiLeaks.

US soldier Bradley Manning, charged with passing US government secrets to WikiLeaks, is about to learn his fate.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities private first class Bradley Manning was giving information to WikiLeaks testified yesterday that the soldier never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

A one-time computer hacker who told authorities that a US soldier was giving information to WikiLeaks has testified that the Army private never said he wanted to help the enemy during their online chats.

Bradley Manning put military secrets into the hands of Osama bin Laden himself, US prosecutors said, as the army intelligence analyst went on trial for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents.

The defence says US military prosecutors are drawing comparisons between an Army private's alleged leak of classified documents to US Civil War-era cases involving coded messages in newspapers

An Army private accused of sending reams of classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website was kept in tight pre-trial confinement partly because another prisoner had recently committed suicide, the former security chief at the Marine Corps base in Quantico, Virginia, told a court today.

The US Army private charged with sending government secrets to WikiLeaks is offering to plead guilty to some offences.

Lawyers for a young soldier accused of leaking a trove of secret information to whistleblowing website WikiLeaks said US military prosecutors had withheld hundreds of emails related to his pre-trial detention at a Marine Corps brig.

The US Army private suspected of giving classified data to WikiLeaks is being flown to a state-of-the-art prison where Pentagon officials said more extensive mental, emotional and physical health care will be available.

The lawyer for a jailed US Army private suspected of leaking classified documents to the WikiLeaks website says his client was stripped of all his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.

The lawyer for a jailed Army private suspected of leaking classified US documents to the WikiLeaks website says his client was stripped of all his clothing at night because he had made sarcastic comments about using underwear to commit suicide.

A lawyer has protested after a US Army private suspected of giving classified material to WikiLeaks was forced to sleep naked in his cell at a Marine Corps prison near Washington.

A military jury in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, sentenced a soldier to death on Thursday for a grenade and rifle attack on his own comrades during the opening days of the Iraq invasion, a barrage that killed two officers and that prosecutors said was driven by religious extremism.