Coming up, The Takeaway turns to Fort Meade, Florida, where the pretrial hearing of Private Bradley Manning is underway. Manning is accused of passing on state secrets to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Could his case reshape how Americans look at secrecy in the military?
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