At Fort Meade in Maryland on November 7, Bradley Manning, the Army private accused of leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, offered to plead guilty to a  the charges against him. The offer was first submitted on October 17, due to the strict secrecy surrounding the case and minimal media coverage the details only came to light with that hearing. On Tuesday, more hearings scheduled to begin, and for the first time they expected to include testimony from Manning himself.