Suicide Probe Sheds Light on WikiLeaks Case

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Monday, March 04, 2013Last Update: 3:10 PM PT
By ADAM KLASFELD

... Col. Daniel Choike's cover letter for the June 2010 report, which Courthouse News acquired under the Freedom of Information Act, endorses the findings that late Capt. Michael Webb died by his own hand while incarcerated at the Marine Correctional Facility at Quantico. Webb, 46, had been awaiting court-martial proceedings on charges of defrauding the government ...

... Webb told the brig's psychologist, Capt. William Hocter, that he wished someone would "just shoot him."

The psychologist assured Quantico officials that Webb did not plan to act on the remark, the investigation found ...

In December, multiple Quantico staffers testified that Hocter's diagnosis of Webb made them distrust his assessment of Manning, who repeatedly made comments about suicide ...

http://www.courthousenews.com/2013/03/04/55396.htm

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