attacks. officials say the fbi looked into the tip but declined to say if any act was taken. the website wick can i leaks reportedly preparing wick can i leaks reportedly preparing to release a new set of documents. a letter from gates on the potential impacts on such leaks. wikileaks has not said which documents will be released. the pentagon is bracing for another dump in the next few days reportedly to be 400,000 pages of classified u.s. army documents on the war in iraq. that would make it the single largest military leak in u.s. history in july wiki leaks released 77,000 pages on the war on afghanistan. the website has been down most of the day. the founder has not responded. the defense department has a team of 100 people prepared to
military leak in u.s. history. 400,000 pages. we also heard from another whistle blower today, a former f.b.i. special agent who had good things to say about wikileaks. what s that about? you might remember the name kaline rolly, she s a special agent from the f.b.i. minneapolis office who came forward after 9-11 to detail how she and others had connected the dots, so to speak, but weren t listened to a month before the attacks. connecting the dots between the so-called 20th hijacker and the al-qaeda 9-11 plotters. in an op ed piece, she writes that wikileaks could have prevented 9-11 by acting as an outlet or as she puts it, a pressure valve for f.b.i. agents who were worried, she said, about what might happen, fearing an attack like 9-11. a different perspective on wikileaks from her, even as critics of the web site accuse it of hurting the u.s. and breaching u.s. security and braced for another release.
we ve been using this map all last week to highlight the heat. the same deal again today with the core of it at least for today being around kansas city, east towards st. louis but advisories all the way from the southern texas coastline up toward minneapolis and even places like new york city will get temperatures well above average today plus 5, plus 10, plus 15 in spots so try to stay cool. getting into the middle of august and it is certainly beginning to feel like that. we ll talk more about that plus the potential for tropical action later on in the broadcast. look at california. it s 10 degrees below normal. it s been chilly in san diego. i ve had a few people complaining about the cool out there. but, yeah. just put a sweater on. thanks, rob. they re wondering where the heck their summer went. but they ll have a great winter. the man at the center of a pentagon investigation into the biggest military leak in history but who exactly is private bradley manning? our pe
pitched in to help out. we talked about this last week and this was just one of those, can you believe that they would do something as stupid as that? should down a little kid s lemonade stand because she didn t have a permit? they did that in central park a couple years back, too. the public outcry was like this. congrats. have fun at disney. they need something better to do. he went from an unknown intelligence analyst in the army to the man suspected of the largest military leak if american history. who is private bradley manning? our pentagon team takes a look.
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