Intelligence Gathering, Leaks Dominate US News
Augest 03, 2013
Edward Snowden was only the lastest NSA insider to defect and tell secrets.
From VOA Learning English, this is In the News.
This week, a U.S. military judge ruled in the case of Army Private Bradley Manning. The soldier was found guilty of espionage for providing secrets to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks. The court also found him guilty of several other charges. The punishment for these crimes could add up to more than 100 years in prison. The Oklahoma native was found not guilty of aiding the enemy. That charge could have resulted in a life prison sentence.
Manning had admitted to what is called the largest leak of secret U.S. documents in history. The documents included secret diplomatic messages and military reports about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The case was tried at Fort Meade, Maryland, close to the grounds of the National Security Agency. That is where intelligence contractor Edward Snowden once worked. He recently leaked secret documents on government efforts to collect information about American citizens.
On Wednesday, members of Congress met with intelligence and law enforcement officials. The officials said the U.S. government’s information gathering does not violate the privacy of citizens. And they said these activities help to identify and defeat terrorist threats.
The officials spoke after the Obama administration released documents that described the government’s telephone data collection programs.
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