Is this the 22-year-old analyst behind leaks?

US government agencies have been bracing for the release of thousands more classified documents since the leak of a classified helicopter cockpit video of a 2007 firefight in Baghdad.

That leak was blamed on a US Army intelligence analyst working in Iraq, in what could well be one of the most damaging leaks of classified military information in the nation’s history.

Specialist Bradley Manning, 22, of Potomac, Maryland, (right) was arrested in Iraq and charged earlier this month with multiple counts of mishandling and leaking classified data, after a former hacker turned him in.