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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US Army
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Private
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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 persons 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
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.
See also
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Real Time Regional Gateway The Real Time Regional Gateway (RT-RG) is a data processing and data mining system introduced in 2007 by the US National Security Agency (NSA) and deployed during the American military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is able to store, fuse, s ...
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SIPRNet
The Secure 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 c ...
References
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Military computers