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Army investigators found nearly half a million field reports from Iraq and Afghanistan on a flash card found among the belongings of Pfc. Bradley Manning, with a note suggesting that an unnamed recipient "sit on this information" while deciding how best to distribute it, according to hearing testimony Monday.

A supervisor of Bradley Manning, the soldier accused of leaking government secrets to WikiLeaks, said he had a "keen understanding" of enemy threats in Iraq.

Attorneys representing the 24-year-old Army private accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks made repeated references Saturday to signs that their client had gender identity disorder, noting that he had an alter ego called "Breanna Manning" and kept a folder of articles on the disorder in his sleeping quarters, including one partially titled "flight into hypermasculinity."

The attorney for Pfc. Bradley Manning, the Army soldier suspected of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks, spent the first day of a key hearing Friday trying to get the presiding officer thrown off the case.

Hundreds of activists are planning to demonstrate outside Fort Meade this weekend in support of Army Private Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of sending hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, organizers said.

Bradley Manning's attorneys suggest the accused WikiLeaker was a skilled computer technician who struggled with mental health, emotional and behavioral problems.

Legislation would allow the National Security Agency to pass classified information to private businesses vetted by the government to defend against disruptions, destruction or the theft of trade secrets, business plans and private information about clients, customers and employees.

A bill introduced by Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin intended to modernize the nation's 1917 Espionage Act has angered public access advocates who say it would limit the ability of federal employees to blow the whistle on government fraud and abuse.

A military hearing for Army Private First Class Bradley Manning, the former intelligence analyst accused of giving classified materials about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to WikiLeaks, will be held at Fort Meade next month, his attorney said Monday.

If you want to get a sense of how desperate things have become Rupert Murdoch's empire, take a look at this editorial in today's Wall Street Journal.

Former NSA employee Thomas Drake Thursday accepted a plea deal that cleared him of espionage charges stemming from an alleged leak of classified information to a Baltimore Sun reporter who wrote about waste and mismanagement at the Fort Meade-based agency.

Ruppersberger off the mark on defense issues

But papers show Owings Mills graduate Majid Khan denies al-Qaida ties.