The pre-trial hearing of alleged Wikileaks source Bradley Manning has concluded after lawyers made their closing statements. An investigating officer must now advise if he should face court-martial.
Private Manning faces 22 charges of obtaining and distributing government secrets – which he allegedly leaked to anti-secrecy site Wikileaks. Reporter Arun Rath is following the hearing for PBS Frontline and The World.
US Army private Bradley Manning is the suspected source of the biggest intelligence leak in US history. When WikiLeaks published much of that information, many said it would change everything for journalism and government secrecy. But as Arun Rath of our partner program Frontline reports, it’s not clear how much it has.
Three years ago a Pakistani-American named David Headley orchestrated a major attack on Mumbai. Headley worked for the Pakistani militant group, Lashkar-e-Taiba. But Headley was just one part of Lashkar’s growing global reach, as Sebastian Rotella reports for PBS Frontline and The World.
Richard Holbrooke was the Obama administration’s pointman for the civilian side of the Afghanistan war. He died suddenly in December 2010, leaving some successes that are sometimes overlooked, and they have to do with Pakistan.
What’s become of the neoconservative movement that was in ascendancy during the first term of the George W. Bush administration.
A look at a few historical instances when countries prosecuted their own toppled presidents.
New commander of international forces in Afghanistan issues warning as violence flares.