Q&A on the News
Q: Is there any more info on the person who took the documents from the government and gave them to WikiLeaks?
—David Lamb, Fayetteville
A: U.S. Pvt. First Class Bradley Manning, an intelligence analyst who was stationed in Iraq, allegedly leaked the records, according to Newsweek.com. He was detained in May after WikiLeaks released a video taken by cameras on U.S. Apache helicopters that show civilians being killed in a July 2007 strike in Iraq that it had allegedly obtained from him, according to The Washington Post. Newsweek explains that former hacker Adrian Lamo gave officials "a copy of a purported online chat he had with Manning about documents he had downloaded from a computer at a U.S. base in Iraq." Lamo claimed that Manning had about 260,000 documents. He has been detained at the U.S. Marine brig at Quantico Marine base and faces multiple charges of violating the U.S. Criminal Code for allegedly disclosing classified information.
Q: I recently watched the classic "A Charlie Brown Christmas" online via ABC’s website. Just like on the regular broadcast, the site displayed the TV content rating in the upper-left corner after each commercial break. I was shocked to see that the show was rated TV-PG. Any ideas as to what content prompted that rating?
—Randy Dewberry, Atlanta
A: "A Charlie Brown Christmas" is rated G, as are all of the PEANUTS specials, Amber K. Gereghty with ABC Media Relations told Q&A on the News in an e-mail.
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