Bradley Manning Offers Partial Guilty Plea in WikiLeaks Case

Bradley Manning, the American soldier accused of providing classified information to WikiLeaks, is offering to plead guilty to some offenses in exchange for having the most serious charges against him dropped.

The offer was made yesterday by Manning's lawyer, David E. Coombs, during a motion hearing in Mannings court martial at Fort Meade, Md., as first reported by blogger Kevin Gosztola.

This doesn't mean that Manning is pleading guilty, however, as his lawyer stressed in a blog post.

"To clarify, PFC Manning is not pleading guilty to the specifications as charged by the Government," wrote Coombs. "Rather, PFC Manning is attempting to accept responsibility for offenses that…
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