Manning WikiLeaks trial focus returns to State Department cables
August 1, 2013 at 8:16 pm
State Dept. testifies on impact of info given to WikiLeaks
David Dishneau
Associated Press
... Elizabeth Dibble didn’t give any evidence in open court of how the unprecedented leak of classified information damaged U.S. foreign relations, but she did testify in a session closed to the public to protect classified information. She was summoned to talk about the impact of Manning’s actions on U.S. relations with Iran, Lebanon and Libya.
Dibble was the No. 2 official in the agency’s Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs when WikiLeaks began publishing the leaked cables on its website in the fall of 2010. She was the prosecution’s third witness at a sentencing hearing to determine Manning’s sentence for leaking the cables, plus more than 470,000 Iraq and Afghanistan battlefield reports and some battlefield video, while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq ...
Another U.S. diplomat, John D. Feely, the No. 2 official in the Western Hemisphere bureau, testified the leaked cables had an impact on U.S. relations with Latin American nations. He saved the details for a closed session following his open-court testimony ...
Manning’s lawyers maintain the leaks did little to no harm ...
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