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Michigan. jon. jon: a fox news alert and breaking information on that wickileaks case, our colleagues at the "wall street journal," the publication owned by the parent company of this network, the "wall street journal" is reporting that bradley manning, the private -- u.s. army private who is already in detention for having leaked cockpit video of an attack on afghanistan, bradley manning has been tied, according to military investigators in the "wall street journal," with the release of those documents that wound up on the wickileaks website, manning was first investigated in may when he alle...

Government. >> it poses a very real and potential threat to those that are working hard every day to keep us safe. >> reporter: in fact, the u.s. gives more than $1 billion annually to pakistan to help fight terrorism, but there are 180 dispatches, some offering strong details, that pakistani's military intelligence agency, the isi, is helping the afghan insurgency attack american troops. now, the revelations were first posted on wikileaks, a whistle blower website. it was fed the information from a source believed to be this man, army specialist brad manning, now behind bars in kuwait accused...

A source believed to be this man, army specialist brad manning, now behind bars in kuwait, accused of document theft. disillusioned about the war, manning struck up an online friendship with a sacramento, california, computer hacker. he told the hacker he discovered incredible, awful things and not on some server stored in a dark room in washington, d.c. realizing the magnitude of the situation, the hacker decided to turn manning in to authorities. >> had i not acted i would have wondered for the rest of my life, did i get somebody killed? >> reporter: manning told the hacker he downloaded the...

Computer, he carries around a backpack. he's a journalist, but he's also a computer hacker, so he's very good at breaking encryption codes and getting stuff published but very low key and very hard to find. the question now is how do you prosecute him? he hasn't been to this country, that we know of, in at least four and a half months. so the question becomes if you want to prosecute him, how do you go about doing that if he's not in the united states? shannon: good questions. trace, thank you very much. let's pose that question to our next guest, josh rosen, to talk about this. josh, this guy...

Some. 100 plus degrees for others. people are sweating, even getting sick from the heat. heat advisories in effect up and down the east coast. the record-breaking heat has certain area like, new york, and here in d.c. set to dub this month as the hottest july on record. following last month's honor of the hottest june on record. a month long experiment by one cyber security expert demonstrated how social networks like facebook and twitter can lead to security breaches. he registered fake net work profiles under the guise of being an attractive computer hacker. robin connected with high level...