A Dallas mother is suspected of trying to sell her newborn in a classified ad, NBCdfw.com reported.

A would-be-buyer of the baby got cold feet and contacted Dallas police about the classified ad selling a 4-month-old baby boy for $4,000.

Managers at the Shadow Ridge apartments went into the mother's apartment Friday afternoon to try and collect back rent. Police said the managers found the baby alone in his crib with no one else in the apartment.

The mother was arrested on a charge of child abandonment when she returned home. An empty car seat was in the backseat of her Honda.

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Her name was not released as of late Friday night.

Dallas police said the 4-month-old boy was in the care of Child Protective Services.

Mom seemed 'very depressed'
Neighbors at the apartment complex where the woman was cuffed and taken into custody said they were horrified.

"I can't take this," Omara Muhammad said. "It's hard to see anybody's child go through something like this. It's not fair."

"I just think it's a very sad situation, and I'm glad that the baby is safe and away from those people," Latonia Smith said.

"I saw her when she was pregnant, and she just seemed to be very depressed, always alone sitting on the stairway," Smith said.

Neighbors said they wished the mother would have made a cry for help.

"I'd have been there for her if I had known all of this," Muhammad said. "I'm not working; I'm a senior citizen. I'm home 24-7."

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Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. on Friday appointed two United States attorneys to investigate possible unauthorized disclosures of classified information from the White House and Congress.

The appointment came the day President Barack Obama at a news conference rebutted accusations that his administration leaked information about a terrorist “kill list” and cyber warfare to make himself look tough in an election year.

Holder issued a statement saying Ronald C. Machen Jr., the attorney for the District of Columbia, and Rod J. Rosenstein, from the District of Maryland, will lead separate criminal investigations already under way by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“The unauthorized disclosure of classified information can compromise the security of this country and all Americans, and it will not be tolerated,” Holder said in the statement.

“Machen and Rosenstein are fully authorized to prosecute criminal violations discovered as a result of their investigations and matters related to those violations, consult with members of the Intelligence Community and follow all appropriate investigative leads within the Executive and Legislative branches of government,” Holder said.

The accusations about the Obama leaks surfaced in two articles in The New York Times last week.

Obama on Friday said that such leaks dealt with the safety of the American people, its military and its allies.

"The notion that my White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive," he said. "It's wrong and people I think need to have a better sense of how I approach this office."

On Capitol Hill, a lawmaker said there were indications a high-level individual was involved in the media disclosures.

"Someone from a very senior clearance level has provided information, that's very clear in the preliminary review," Rep. Mike Rogers, the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, told Reuters.

Rogers did not speculate on who the leaker might be.

The top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, C.A. "Dutch" Ruppersberger, said he did not believe anyone had been targeted in early investigations into the leaks.

The recent spate of disclosures included the revelation that a plot by the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda to bomb an airliner had been foiled because of penetration by a double agent, details about the joint American-Israeli computer virus called Stuxnet that sabotaged Iran’s nuclear centrifuges, and an account of Mr. Obama’s role in approving a “kill list” of terrorism suspects for drone strikes, The New York Times reported.

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Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is charged in the biggest leak of classified information in U.S. history.

Bradley Manning, the Army private accused in the WikiLeaks scandal, was ordered Friday to face a general court martial on charges he released thousands of documents of classified information.

Maj. Gen. Michael Linnington, commander of the Military District of Washington, made the decision after reviewing the case and the recommendations from two other officers.  A military judge will set the date for his arraignment, motion hearings and trial.

Manning, 24, is charged with "aiding the enemy" and stealing hundreds of thousand of classified US government secrets and cables, which were eventually made public on the internet by WikiLeaks.  The charges claim that Manning illegally downloaded the documents while he was an Army intelligence analyst in Iraq, and that he released those documents knowing they would be published on the Internet and accessible to the enemy.

If convicted of all charges, Manning would face a maximum punishment of reduction to the lowest enlisted pay grade, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances; confinement for life; and a dishonorable discharge.

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