because of their own shame and humiliation, not because of any matter of national security? >> that's a really good question, and to actually answer that question, we'll have to look at the government's history in this case so far. it's important to note that the government had access to information for the prosecution of bradley manning for some nine months that it denied access to the defense. and this information is called brady material. now, brady material in a court martial sense is information that could be used to prove the innocence or guilt of the defendant. now, the government had claimed in the court martial proceedings that this information was taking a long time to go through, they had been reviewing it, et cetera, and it was taking so long to get it to coombs and they would have to wait longer. recently, a stack of documents reached the desk of david coombs, bradley manning's attorney, in which the brady memo was found, and the brady memo essentially outlines the government has not been looking at the brady information, has not been very viewing reviewing