Military court tells US to give records to WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning A military court ordered the U.S. government to turn over secret documents relating to WikiLeaks suspect Pfc. Bradley Manning to his defense lawyers Wednesday, NBC News reported. The victory for Manning came on the opening day of a three-day pretrial hearing outside Washington where his lawyers were also seeking dismissal of 10 of the 22 counts against him. The court judge, Col. Denise Lind, also said she would take into consideration a defense motion to delay Manning's scheduled Sept. 21 trial due to the exhaustive search for government records. "The court is certainly willing to entertain any good-cause motions for continuance," Lind said. Agence France Presse news agency described Manning as frail-looking while seated between two members of his defense team when the hearing got under way after an hour-long closed door meeting between lawyers for both sides. The defense team also asked the court to compel the government to produce material including investigation reports by the White House and House of Representatives. NBC News reported that Lind ruled that the government must give Manning's defense team a redacted version of the Defense Intelligence Agency's WikiLeaks Damage Assessment Report. The team will receive the report "almost in its entirety," as only specific classified information shall be removed, NBC News reported. Motions discussed Wednesday raised questions about the prosecution's operating procedure during the discovery process, a mandatory pre-trial information exchange of evidence, NBC News reported In one of many examples that came to light, the government maintains a working index of the hundreds of thousands of documents examined during discovery, but it does not provide the defense counsel with any type of reference material when it turns over the files. Coombs asked the court to stop the prosecution's so-called "hide the ball" tactics. The government responded by criticizing Coombs' evidence requests as overly broad, accusing the defense of "fishing expeditions." Coombs described his attempt to obtain documents emerging from an ongoing House Oversight investigation: "Short of telling the government that the documents are in a red file in [House Oversight Chairman] Darrell Issa's third drawer, beneath his Bible, you can't get much more specific than my request," Coombs said. Lind, chastised the prosecution for its "circular arguments" and questioned its past judgment of discoverable evidence, warning, "If you see something that could be material to the preparation of the defense -- even if you don't have a request for that specific piece of evidence -- you disclose it." The court reviewed damage assessments from the State Department, the Defense Intelligence Agency and the CIA before proceedings began Wednesday, in order to determine what information should be turned over to the defense and what information should be removed in the interests of national security. Manning's defense team was given a slightly redacted version of the State Department's investigation on Tuesday evening, the Guardian newspaper of London reported. NBC's Ellie Hall and The Associated Press contributed to this story.