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Manning Scores ‘Touchdown’ With U.S. Troops in Afghanistan

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Bradley Manning at Fort Meade, Md., on Feb. 28.

With the sad and all-too predictable guilty plea Thursday from PFC Bradley Manning for turning over reams of classified data to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks — and the resulting flood of media attention — it came as a surprise Friday afternoon to see a Pentagon press release with the headline above in Battleland’s email box.

At least until we clicked it open, here.