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Summary Bradley Manning is being asked for the first time to enter a plea to the charges.
Mannings arraignment begins Thursday afternoon.The 24-year-old U.S. Army private accused of spilling thousands of U.S. secrets to WikiLeaks faces 22 counts, including aiding the enemy. That charge carries a maximum sentence of life in prison.Manning has been locked up since May 2010. He is accused of giving the anti-secrecy WikiLeaks website more than 700,000 classified documents and video clips while working in Iraq.Defense lawyers say Manning was a troubled soldier who shouldnt have had access to classified material.
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