U.S. Soldier Arrested in WikiLeaks Inquiry After Tip From Former Hacker

Robert Mackey
The New York Times
June 7, 2010

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Wired’s Threat Level blog reported late Sunday that “an Army intelligence analyst who boasted of giving classified U.S. combat video and hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records to whistleblower site WikiLeaks,” was arrested by the Pentagon.

The leaked video, which was filmed in Baghdad in 2007 during an operation that killed civilians, including two Reuters journalists, was published online by WikiLeaks in April.

Kevin Poulsen and Kim Zetter of Threat Level wrote:

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