FORT MEADE, Md. — Bradley Manning, the Army private arrested in the biggest leak of classified material in US history, pleaded guilty yesterday to charges that could send him to prison for 20 years, saying he was trying to expose the American military’s “blood lust” and disregard for human life in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military prosecutors said they plan to move forward with a court-martial on 12 remaining charges against him, including aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence.
“I believed that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information . . . this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general,” the 25-year-old former intelligence analyst in Baghdad told a military judge, explaining why he leaked hundreds of thousand of classified documents to the WikiLeaks Web site in 2009 and 2010.
The judge, Col. Denise Lind, accepted his plea to 10 charges involving illegal possession or distribution of classified material.
Manning was allowed to plead guilty under military regulations instead of federal espionage law, knocking his potential sentence down from 92 years.
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