Wikileaks traitor accused of having a female alter ego

Fort Meade – A picture is emerging of an accused traitor as a sexually confused, harrassed loner at odds with the other soldiers who manned a forward intelligence center near Baghdad.

Bradley Manning is portrayed as an unstable personality who had a female alter ego named “Rhianna,” according to witnesses.

His emotional outbursts and tantrums led his supervising officer, Captain Casey Fulton, to recommend that his weapon be taken away from him following a fight with a fellow soldier that occurred in the computer room.

A non-commissioned officer testified he once saw a photo of the 24-year-old private dressed as a woman.

He stands accused of releasing hundreds of thousands of sensitive documents purloined from his computer terminal in the Iraq war zone through the intelligence website Wikileaks. A computer expert testified that there were more than 100 entries on Private Manning's terminal seeking information on Wikileaks and its founder, Julian Assange.

Article 32 hearings will continue this morning following closed-door proceedings that are classified. The procedure is so named because of the article of the Uniform Code of Military Justice that addresses preliminary hearings into allegations of complaint to determine if there is enough evidence to convene a court martial.

Among the sensitive documents allegedly leaked by Private Manning are State Department cables regarding estimations of foreign officials,
secret documents concerning the conduct of the war, and even a video depicting a rocket attack by an Apache helicopter that left two foreign journalists dead.

If convicted, the accused traitor could receive a death sentence, though military prosecutors have indicated they are not seeking the ultimate penalty.