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Command Changes At Brig Where Manning Is Held

Rachel Slajda | January 26, 2011, 3:24PM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

A new commander has taken over the brig at the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia, where Pfc. Bradley Manning is being held on charges that he leaked classified information.

Commander James Averhart was replaced by Chief Warrant Officer Denise Barnes on Monday, a Quantico spokesman told CNN. The spokesman said the change was ordered back in October.

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Topics: Bradley Manning, Quantico Marine Corps base, Wikileaks

Manning Visitors: We Were Detained At Base, Stopped From Visiting

Rachel Slajda | January 24, 2011, 11:23AM

Pfc. Bradley Manning

Two people who were on their way this weekend to visit Pfc. Bradley Manning, the man accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables and other information to Wikileaks, say they were detained at the military base where Manning is being held, apparently, they say, without reason.

David House, a hacker from Boston who says he has been visiting Manning since September, and Jane Hamsher of FireDogLake, went to the Quantico Marine Corps base in Virginia Sunday afternoon. They were hoping to visit Manning, as well as deliver a petition to the base calling for better treatment for Manning.