245 minutes past the hour. a lot of activity this weekend outside of the marine base in quantico, virginia. protesters lining up, many rallying to support army private bradley manning. military officials suspect manning of leaking tens of thousands of pages of afghan war documents to the website wikileaks.org. just a few hundred yards away a handful of counterprotesters held signs with bloody hands calling the leak treasonous. how does a computer savvy 22-year-old go from an intelligence analyst in iraq to the man acutcused of the bigges military leak in history? pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is investigating the private life of private bradley manning. good morning, chris. reporter: hey, kiran. we had cnn teams fan out from
prosecutors and also the vict victim s family? we ll talk to him coming up. the am fix blog is up and running. join the live conversation right now, cnn.com/amfix. we begin this morning on the cnn security watch. eight years after he was cap nu captured in afghanistan, omar khadr is going on trial. there is a lot at stake for the obama administration. homeland security correspondent jeanne meserve is live in washington with more on this test case. good morning. reporter: omar khadr is the youngest guantanamo detainee and the only westerner held there. his trial has drawn international criticism. it is the first test of the obama administration s revised military commission system. omar khadr sobbing during an interrogation at guantanamo bay in 2008. for eight years the young
the man accused of the biggest military leak in american history? pentagon correspondent chris lawrence is investigating the private life of private bradley manning. he joins us now live from the pentagon. what are we discovering about manning, chris? reporter: it s a long trail, john. we tried to answer that question and get a better answer of exactly what makes private manning tick. private bradley manning s small town life ended at the age of 13. his parents separated and his mom moved them out of oklahoma, overseas to wales. there in the uk, cnn tracked down old friends who told us manning didn t back down from school bullies. he would stick up for himself and for others. even if he knew he couldn t particularly win the battle. reporter: and how he loved computers. he was doing hide coding, as a programmer, hide coding is some of the most complicated
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