(8 Jun 2012) On June 8th 2012 a military judge refused to dismiss any of the 22 counts against an Army private charged in the biggest leak of government secrets in US history.
Judge Colonel Denise Lind made the ruling during a pre-trial hearing for Private Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Maryland.
Lind also indicated she will postpone Manning's trial, currently set to start on September 21st, to November or January 2013 because of procedural delays.
Manning is charged with knowingly aiding al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula by causing the online publication of hundreds of thousands of classified State Department diplomatic cables and Iraq and Afghanistan war logs, along with some battlefield video clips.
Authorities say the 24-year-old from Crescent, Oklahoma, downloaded the files from a Defence Department network and sent them to the secret-sharing website WikiLeaks while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
Manning hasn't entered a plea to the charges.
On the third day of a pre-trial hearing, Lind rejected a defence argument that the government used unconstitutionally vague language in charging Manning with eight counts of unauthorised possession and disclosure of classified information.
She also refused to dismiss two counts alleging Manning exceeded his authority to access a Defence Department computer system.
Manning faces the possibility of life in prison if convicted aiding the enemy.
He has been in pre-trial confinement since he was charged in May 2010 and has been held at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas since April 2011.

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