The State Department treated Pfc. Bradley Manning’s leaks to WikiLeaks as a “very, very serious crisis,” an ambassador testified at Ft. Meade Monday, denying reports that he told Congress otherwise two years ago. The words attributed to him then: the cables were “embarrassing but not damaging.” Adam Klasfeld of Courthouse News reports from Manning’s ongoing court-martial. The defense hopes to reduce prison time with the argument that the leaks caused less damage than the “hacker hysteria” they sparked would suggest.