Combined Information Data Network Exchange, or CIDNE, is a computer system used by the US military.
It is used to collect
tactical information from troops.
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Chelsea Manning
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(then known as Bradley) was accused by the US government of giving out information from CIDNEI and CIDNEA (CIDNE Iraq and CIDNE Afghanistan) to people not entitled to receive it, in violation of various US laws (and, by inclusion, portions of the
Uniform Code of Military Justice
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).
Numerous media have reported that these are the documents contained in
WikiLeaks
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' publication of
Afghan War documents and
Iraq war documents.
See also
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Real Time Regional Gateway
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United States v. Manning
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SIPRNet
The Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet) is "a system of interconnected computer networks used by the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of State to transmit classified information (up to and including information ...
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Military computers