Manning's defense focuses on command failures

FORT MEADE, Maryland (AP) — Lawyers for U.S. soldier Bradley Manning are focusing on his supervisors' failure to take actions that could have prevented him from disclosing huge amounts of classified information through WikiLeaks.

His sentencing hearing continued Tuesday.

Chief Warrant Officer 2 Kyle Balonek testified about an incident in which Manning angrily flipped over a table and had to be restrained in December 2009.

Balonek says it wasn't serious enough to prompt a disciplinary report that could have led to revocation of Manning's security clearance. Balonek says such action is reserved for egregious misconduct.

Manning faces up to 90 years in prison for leaking thousands of documents he downloaded while working as an intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2010.