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Politics & The Nation Probe of WikiLeaks suspect turns to Boston acquaintances by Ellen Nakashima Before the online site Wiki-
Leaks published a trove of classi- fied documents about the Af- ghanistan war, government in- vestigators interviewed Boston area acquaintances of a military analyst charged with providing other documents to the site in an effort to preempt additional leaks, according to one person in- terviewed in the probe. The investigators from the
Army and the State Department seemed to be “looking for classi- fied documents that they thought to be in the Boston area,” said the acquaintance, who would discuss the sensitive matter only on the condition of anonymity. “I got the impression that we’re still in the process of containing a leak.” The man, a computer expert who met Pfc. Bradley E. Manning in January, said he told the inves- tigators in mid-June that he knew of no such documents. The interview was among at
least two investigators conducted in the Boston area after Manning was accused of giving WikiLeaks State Department cables and a video of a helicopter attack in which unarmed civilians were killed in Baghdad. Officials have said Manning also is a suspect in the leak of the Afghanistan docu- ments made public last week, a disclosure that prompted con- demnation from the Obama ad- ministration. The computer expert also said the Army offered him cash to, in his word, “infiltrate” WikiLeaks. “I turned them down,” he said. “I don’t want anything to do with this cloak-and-dagger stuff.” Army Criminal Investigation Division spokesman Chris Grey declined to comment on the claim. “We’ve got an ongoing in- vestigation,” he said. “We don’t discuss our techniques and tac- tics.”
Another Manning acquain- tance who was questioned said investigators “assumed that he was the one who did it and were trying to understand why, what was going on with him psycho- logically, to either make it so no- body gets to this point in the fu- ture or spot people who’ve gotten to this point and make sure they didn’t do any damage.” This acquaintance, also a com-
puter expert who spoke on the condition of anonymity, is affili- ated with the Massachusetts In-
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stitute of Technology. He said he was interviewed twice in June in Cambridge, shortly after Man- ning was detained. He was charged in July. Manning, who lived in Poto- mac and was stationed at Fort Drum, N.Y., before shipping out to Baghdad last year, had hoped he would serve his time and then use the G.I. Bill to go to college. His military attorney has de- clined to comment.
“He was definitely interested in making a positive impact on the world,” said Danny Clark, a friend of Manning’s who runs a small tech firm in Cambridge and has declined to be interviewed by military investigators. Meanwhile, friends and family
are raising money for Manning’s defense, including a private law- yer to augment the Army-provid- ed defense lawyer. The San Fran- cisco-based war resistors’ group
Courage to Resist has raised $11,418 and is aiming for $100,000, assuming a “sizable contribution from WikiLeaks,” said Jeff Paterson, project direc- tor. Manning has been trans- ferred from Kuwait, where he had been detained, to Quantico. He was charged in military court in July and will have a prelimi- nary hearing to determine if he should face a court-martial. Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is scheduled to appear on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday to further denounce WikiLeaks for endan- gering the lives of U.S. troops and Afghan civilians.
One senior military official
balked at the suggestion by De- fense Secretary Robert M. Gates that the WikiLeaks disclosure could cause the Pentagon to limit the distribution of classified in-
formation to combat field units, where it is harder to monitor what analysts are downloading. “Limiting intelligence to troops in combat is a non-starter,” said a senior military official. Such limits in an effort to prevent further leaks could “get soldiers killed,” the official said.
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Staff writer Greg Jaffe contributed to this report.
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