By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 16:28 EST, 29 November 2012 | UPDATED: 16:14 EST, 30 November 2012 The Army private charged in the biggest security breach in U.S. history took the stand Thursday at a military hearing about what he contends was needlessly harsh treatment at a Marine Corps brig. Private First Class Bradley Manning testified on the third day of a pretrial hearing at Fort Meade, outside Baltimore saying that he lost all hope when he was detained for weeks in a segregation tent in Camp Arifjan, an Army installation in Kuwait where he was stationed. Manning says he remembers thinking 'I'm going to die, I'm stuck inside this cage.'
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Wikileaks informant testified about the treatment he received both in Kuwait holding area and once he returned to Virginia in the U.S.
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Said he was increasingly 'hopeless' and considered suicide
Earlier Thursday, a military judge accepted the terms under which Manning would plead guilty to eight charges for sending classified documents to the secret-spilling @placeholder website.