ABC News’ Kirit Radia and Luis Martinez report: The computer hard drives of a US soldier accused of leaking up to 260,000 classified State Department documents have been sent to Washington for forensic analysis to determine how much sensitive information may have been breached, a spokesman for the department said today.
Army Specialist Bradley Manning is alleged to have obtained thousands of secret cables with the intention of leaking them to the whistleblower website Wikileaks.org, which posts sensitive leaked government and corporate documents online. He is also accused of being the source of a combat video released by Wikileaks earlier this year that showed a US Army Apache helicopter gunning down a group of Iraqi civilians in 2007, including two Reuters journalists.
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