Bradley Manning lawyers quiz State Department officials about WikiLeaks fallout By NBC's Ellie Hall Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, right, is escorted to a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., Thursday. Three State Department officials were called as defense witnesses Thursday for Pfc. Bradley Manning as a pre-trial motions hearing continued in the WikiLeaks case, the largest leak ever of U.S. government documents. Manning's defense team planned to cross-examine the witnesses about a State Department assessment of the May 2010 leaks and how the leaked documents affected U.S. interests abroad. The testimony will conclude the defense's evidence for its motion to compel discovery, a mandatory pre-trial information exchange of evidence. It is unlikely that the judge, Col. Denise Lind, will rule on this motion Thursday and the court will continue on to a defense petition asking the court to drop 10 of the 22 charges against the 24 year-old analyst. The pretrial hearing began Wednesday and is expected to conclude Friday. Earlier: Military court tells US to give records to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning