I guess those that attacked my opinion didn't bother following the article 32 hearings. No doubt most of the left leaning media completely ignored the story. However I've included a link to a Politico report of day 1 of the hearings.
A struggle with emotional problems and even his gender may affect the culpability of an Army private accused of leaking thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables to Wikileaks, the defense argued at a preliminary hearing here Saturday.
As a clearer view of the defense’s strategy in the high-profile criminal investigation emerged, a lawyer for Pfc. Bradley Manning pressed a government investigator about whether she found articles he’d printed out about “gender identity disorder” and “gender reassignment,” including one about transsexuals in the military engaging in “flight into hyper masculinity.”
Graham told Maj. Matthew Kemkes the information found in Manning’s quarters at a forward operating base in Iraq last year wasn’t a surprise to her. “We already knew before arriving … that PFC Manning was homosexual and — I don’t know the proper term — transvestite, or was interested in those topics,” she said.
Another defense lawyer, Capt. Paul Bouchard, said twice later in the hearing that Manning had created “an alter-ego” under the name “Breanna Manning.”
Another investigator who testified Saturday, former Army special agent Troy Bettencourt, said Manning had “at least one” email address as well as a Facebook profile of himself as “Breanna.”
Witnesses also said that Manning, an intelligence analyst, sent an e-mail to his immediate supervisor in which Manning included a photo of himself dressed as a woman and said he’d concluded he was suffering from gender identity disorder.
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