classified information, and providing it to people not authorized to have it. you are going to recall this all did begin when the video surfaced on a website called wiki leaks. the video in july 2010 07 alleg to have killed both insurgeents and several civilians including two reuters journalists. how did the leaks get this classified video? now it is alleged it came from private first class bradley manny and multiple counts, multiple charges. he s also charged with having possession of something like more than 50,000 classified state department cables and all types of information that he downloaded on to a personal computer and then provided it illegally to others. he s now facing the possibility of what is the military equivalent of a grand jury proceeding and the potential of a court-martial. barbara starr, live from the pentagon.
south carolina. they have this primary going. they didn t uncover anything. you had voters go to the polls. they did their due dilligence. now democratic party who are alleging or who is alleging all of the wrongdoing. it isn t the journalistic community. it isn t republicans. democrat take party eating their young here. i don t think it is a good move. shannon: we ll see how it plays out. always great to see you. thanks. you bet. shannon: well, doesn t it always seem like you re hearing bad news about american automakers? not this time. in three minutes the u.s. car company that got a huge boost. plus there are big worries that the founder of the web site, wiki leaks may release a ton of classified information about the u.s. military of the these are the guys who released video of army helicopter firing on terrorists in iraq. you will hear why this release is worrying folks a
next hour. an army intelligence specialist faces espionage charges after allegedly leaking classified documents to the website, wiki leaks. one included the 2007 video of an american helicopter attack in baghdad. fox s malini wilkes joins us live with more. tell us about this. the defense department is reportedly considering espionage charges against a military intelligence analyst who claims to have leaked thousands of classified documents to a whistle blower website. the analyst 22-year-old army specialist bradley manning. now in custody in kuwait, but he hasn t been charged. he claims to have leaked a 2007 army video recently posted on the website kwiki leaks, shows an apache helicopter gunning down in iraq including two from the reuters news service. and online chats and manning claims to have leaked 250,000
photographers. critics say those were all civilians. the military claims, shep, those were armed insurgents. shepard: who is assange, trace? julia assange 39 years old. known computer hacker. he, of course, is the founder of wiki leak. he has no home. lives out of a backpack and communicates using a laptop computer. because he lives in the shadows he is dubbed the international man of mystery. that man makes very few public appearances but is he supposed to make one tonight at an investigative journalist conference in las vegas. we called the conference, we emailed the conference, they have not responded but if assange shows up tonight, it s a good bet the feds will also be there, shep. shepard: what s the goal here, trace? shut down wiki leaks? what they really isn t have assange to cooperate with him. it would be difficult to shut
that comment did not help him. they re not sequestered. reporter: the whole idea is that he is saying this is just a college prank. i didn t do anything. he used public information, things he got from reading the newspapers, found on the internet, to try to figure out what sarah palin s password was on her yahoo! account and he figured it out. he got in there and changed the e-mail and then took some of the information and posted it on some websites that you have heard of, wiki leaks, but the pictures got out. it was interesting when sarah palin was sitting in the box today. they asked her, how did you find out about this. she said, i m sitting in michigan on the campaign trail, i look over at the monitor, television program is on and i m seeing like those are my e-mails