In December 2009, while being scolded for tardiness, Manning overturned a table, spilling a radio and computer onto the floor and had to be restrained, the supervisor, Sgt. Daniel Padgett, testified during a pretrial proceeding.
ednesday, Coombs called two witnesses, and both covered ground that had been discussed earlier in the hearing that began Friday at Fort Meade. One, Sgt. Daniel Padgett, testified about one of Mannings emotional outbursts while he was serving as an intelligence analyst at a military base in Baghdad.
after the unit had deployed to Iraq. Manning was speaking with Sgt. Daniel Padgett at a table, she said, when suddenly Manning started screaming and flipped the table over, knocking a computer to the floor. Then, she said, Manning looked around and seemed to notice an M-4 assault rifle against a wall.