there needs to be a prescription. several military doctors diagnosed him with gender disorder. this e-mail was sent to his sergeant and describing wanting to live as woman. this was pushed to the side. the unit was underpowered and they could not lose analysts. the man behind the largest leak of classified material in u.s. history. legal experts tell us it s that crime and mannings behavior while he s being held at ft. leavenworth that will ultimately determine whether he s paroled. they don t believe his gender identity issues will be a huge factor. chris lawrence, cnn, the pentagon. what a twist to that story. aaron hernandez indicted by a massachusetts grand jury on murder charges. he and two associated
one-third of that sentence is complete. back to you. gregg: peter doocy, thanks very much. so, you know, you re right, martha, when you point out he will be how old? martha: he is 25 now. they reduced bit three years. it is a 33 year sentence. if he is eligible for parole in 10 years, it is possible if he got paroled in 10 years he could be out by the time he is, you know, in early to mid 30s, which i think will come as a big surprise to a lot of people if he indeed get as chance at parole. i don t know what do you think the chances of that are? gregg: i think they re pretty good, especially when you consider that you he does have, what are known as mitigating circumstances with the defense argued a difficult childhood. he was abused. he also has, certain psychological issues. he has, his attorney said is gay. he has gender identity issues. he was not fit for duty. all of these things were argued
former secretary of defense for detainees, heritage foundation. you re a lawyer by profession. officer in the jag corps. you re eminently qualified to talk about this. how much discretion and latitude does this judge have and what would you expect from her today? in this case as in all military justice case, almost all of them, there is mo mandatory minimum. she could literally sentence him to no punishment up to 90 years and dishonnable discharge. the defense asked for 25. government asked for 60, typically the judges sentence within the range offered by both sides. gregg: look, he offered a great many explanations and or excuses. one of them is, you know, he had a difficult childhood. feet tall alcohol syndrome. his mother abandoned him and so forth. he has expressed some remorse. he has apologized for what he did. said he was struggling with gender identity issues.
what were they trying to accomplish by releasing that picture of bradley manning in drag? they are trying to show the judge that bradley manning was a very confused and misunderstood, troubled young man who was looking for help and could not get it from the army. that picture that you saw was actually part of an e-mail that bradley manning sent to his master sergeant while he was deployed in iraq. that master sergeant never passed up the e-mail or picture because he was afraid the picture might get circulated among the unit and bradley manning would be humiliated. in retrospect, officers had to admit that not doing so was a huge mistake because if they had seen that and seen the lynxes to which bradley manning had gender identity issues, he should have been taken out of the area where
became public. manning says when he leaked the documents to wikileak he was struggling with gender identity issues. our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence was inside that military courtroom. he s here to tell us more. good morning, chris. good morning, carol. yeah, the defense basically wants to prove two things by releasing that photo. number one, they want to paint manning as a very confused young man who was struggling with some deep psychological issues, including whether he wanted to live his life as a woman while deployed in iraq as a united states soldier. they also want to show it for another reason. because he sent that picture as part of an e-mail to one of his master sergeants in his unit. and that sergeant never really forwarded up the chain of command. so, the defense is trying to say, look, there were red flags all along the way that the army never acted on. this was a troubled individual who should have been removed from that classified material well before he was.