Pfc. Bradley Manning's former boss says the soldier's mental health problems ideally would have kept him from deploying to Iraq, but the Army needed his skills.
FORT MEADE, Md. (AP) — Army Pfc. Bradley Manning's defense team is opening its case at the soldier's sentencing hearing.
Defense attorney David Coombs says he expects to call the first of more than a dozen witnesses Monday in the court-martial at Fort Meade, near Baltimore...