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Acknowledged with the afghan war diaries there is nothing new or illuminating. this type of rhetoric is really designed to affect manning's ability to get a fair trial. >> reporter: contacted by cnn a pentagon official disagreed with that characterization and said no one in the pentagon's senior leadership has publicly associated the wikileaks material with any member of the u.s. military. coombs also hinted about ways he may defend his client mentioning that manning's army unit knew of some erratic behavior on his part while he was deployed in iraq before the leaks occurred and before he was ...

On pfc manning talking about how he spent part of his childhood with his father in oklahoma, where the kids there poke fun at him because he was a geek. and how he also spent the rest of the year with his mother in wales and classmates made fun of him for being gay. and then he joined the army, wasted brain power on fetching coffee for others. as if they're trying to explain away why the guy would leak close to 100,000 classified documents to the guy at the web site. >> that outlook was shared last night with bill o'reilly last night. >> it is a very sympathetic profile of a man who stands acs...

>> juan: yes. >> i would sue assange and wiki leaks civilly, bankrupt -- get ahold of all -- punish him in that regard. because when you -- you can't find -- jurisdiction would have criminal, you know, ware could you try have jurisdiction on the criminal side i think is very, very dubious. >> juan: the other point is this could act as disincentive for people who want to follow in his footsteps and start leaking. i don't know if it's that kid that picture wiki leaks friday. but there f. there are others who decide they want to do it, too don't you think it's important that the government make a...

Australian and works through iceland and sweden. what's the jurisdiction for us? i think that you go after this guy is like the tar baby. stick to him. he wants nothing more than this kind of attention. i say stay away from hill. the people we focus our wrap on are the service members allegedly this bradley manning, who was the source of these documents. that's the traitor. that's the person who should, if it comes to that face, you know, the ultimate punishment, if, indeed, it is revealed that someone i dos as a result of his trechry. >> juan: daniel ellsburg that revealed a sense of what was...

>> juan: yes. >> i would sue assange and wiki leaks civilly, bankrupt -- get ahold of all -- punish him in that regard. because when you -- you can't find -- jurisdiction would have criminal, you know, ware could you try have jurisdiction on the criminal side i think is very, very dubious. >> juan: the other point is this could act as disincentive for people who want to follow in his footsteps and start leaking. i don't know if it's that kid that picture wiki leaks friday. but there f. there are others who decide they want to do it, too don't you think it's important that the government make a...