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Summary: US soldier Bradley Manning has been convicted of espionage for leaking thousands of classified documents. Some 700,000 documents were passed to the anti-secrecy site Wikileaks, including US diplomatic cables and classified battlefield reports from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Is the court ruling a curb on freedom of speech or defending national security?