Comparing the Manning and Snowden Cases
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Army Private Bradley Manning is on trial for a massive leak of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks. Edward Snowden is the former CIA employee who's in the news now for admitting he leaked documents revealing the government's surveillance of phone and Internet records. Anchor Marco Werman explores similarities between the two cases with The World's Arun Rath, who's been covering the Manning trial.
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