Bradley Manning Wikileaks case: Army private offers plea in case of leaked government files

Pfc. Bradley Manning , the Army private accused of leaking millions of government files, has offered to plead guilty to some of the charges against him, his attorney announced Thursday.

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Posted: 11/08/2012

By: CNN Wire Staff

(CNN) -- The Army private accused of leaking millions of government files has offered to plead guilty to some of the charges against him, his attorney announced Thursday.

Pfc. Bradley Manning has been jailed for more than two years on allegations that he downloaded hundreds of thousands of pages of documents while serving as a military intelligence analyst in Iraq and handed that trove to website WikiLeaks. The offer was made in a hearing held on Wednesday, his attorney, David Coombs, wrote on his firm's website.

WikiLeaks has never confirmed that Manning was the source of the documents, which the site began publishing in 2010. He has been accused of wrongfully causing intelligence to be published on the Internet, knowing that it was accessible to the enemy and multiple counts of theft of public records.

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