By Dan De Luce (AFP) on April 24, 2012

FORT MEADE, Maryland — A military judge presiding over the case of WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning ordered prosecutors Tuesday to provide reports by US agencies assessing the damage caused by the WikiLeaks website.[...]

The judge, Colonel Denise Lind, said she would review the reports from the CIA, the FBI and other agencies to determine whether the documents were pertinent to Manning’s defense.

The damage reports, including those from the CIA, the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency and the State Deparmtent, could cast doubt on prosecutors’ claims that the exposure of classified documents on the WikiLeaks site had devastating or lethal results.

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