The United States vs Chelsea Manning
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NORFOLK---On paper, the charges read like an intricate espionage case - top-secret documents containing information about military movements and bomb-making methods, smuggled off Navy computers, potentially putting national security and U.S. forces in harm's way.
But explosive ordnance disposal technician Chief Petty Officer Lyle White is no Bradley Manning or Edward Snowden, defense lawyer Grover Baxley told a military judge Wednesday, referring to two high-profile cases involving major leaks of classified material.
White is a combat veteran and a Bronze Star recipient with more than 20 years of service who exercised bad judgment when he took classified documents home. It was an act of laziness, Baxley said, "with no criminal intent, no nefariousness."
White pleaded guilty under a pretrial agreement Wednesday to violating three military regulations: improperly storing classified documents on a non-secure site - namely an external hard drive found at his Virginia Beach home; maintaining possession of the documents; and deliberately removing them from his Navy office without the authority to do so.
He told the court that he understood the regulations and knew he wasn't supposed to take the documents. But he said they were useful for training purposes, so he kept them for his own reference, and didn't share them with anyone.
He now realizes how the information they contained - which included troop movements and bomb analyses - could have exposed U.S. military methodology and put service members' lives in danger, he said.
"By mishandling classified information, I set a horrible example for the people that were looking for guidance, as well as letting my superior officers down," he said in a statement that he read aloud. "My misconduct and its consequences haunts me every day."
White said exchanges of documents with fellow explosive-ordnance disposal sailors started while they were deployed in Iraq in 2007-08. The sailors would share information and lessons learned.
By the end of 2009 - after he'd deployed to Iraq again - he'd collected hundreds of files. That December, he consolidated most of them onto a single hard drive, which he took home.
Four months later, Navy criminal investigators raided his home and found the hard drive in a duffel bag, as well as electronic copies of two other classified documents. The charges related to 25 classified files.
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The detained US soldier convicted of leaking a trove of secret documents to WikiLeaks has made a rare foray into public life to warn Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more.
Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges and other offences for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in the largest-scale leak in US history.
"I understand that my actions violated the law. However, the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved," the soldier formerly a man known as Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial on Saturday.
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan."
President Barack Obama said this week he was "looking at all the options" to halt the offensive that has brought militants within 80km of Baghdad's city limits, but ruled out any return of US combat troops.
Obama has been under mounting fire from Republican critics over the swift collapse of Iraq's security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011.
While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy to the country, "those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality", Manning wrote.
"Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed."
Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was "shocked by our military's complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American media's radar."
Criticising the military's practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that "the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance."
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Chelsea Manning, the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning who's currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for leaking classified government documents, has broken her silence by penning a new op-ed.
"I believe that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance," she wrote Sunday in The New York Times.
Urgent: Do You Approve Or Disapprove of President Obama's Job Performance? Vote Now in Urgent Poll "In all of Iraq, which contained 31 million people and 117,000 United States troops, no more than a dozen American journalists were covering military operations," she wrote of her time stationed there as an intelligence analyst.
Manning has long pushed for more transparency in the military, and cites her document leak as part of that patriotic, albeit unlawful, effort. In this newest opinion piece, she focused on the current state of journalistic "embedment," that is, the access journalists have to be placed among the troops on the front lines of our wars.
Currently, reporters must apply with the military for embed status in places like Iraq, a process Manning said is highly biased.
"Journalists whom military contractors rate as likely to produce 'favorable' coverage, based on their past reporting . . . get preference. This outsourced 'favorability' rating assigned to each applicant is used to screen out those judged likely to produce critical coverage," she wrote.
If granted access and allowed to embed, members of the media are forced to sign a "ground rules" agreement, which limits their conduct for security purposes. Part of this agreement states that their embed can be terminated without appeal.
Manning acknowledges the importance of such security measures, however also says they can be and have been used to terminate reporters who write more critically of the war effort.
Offering an example, Manning pointed to the late Rolling Stone reporter Michael Hastings, whose embed was terminated in 2010 after he reported Gen. Stanley McChrystal's criticisms of the Obama administration. At the time, a Pentagon spokesman went as far as to say, "Embeds are a privilege, not a right," which was an egregious display of power in Manning's opinion.
After explaining this system and its current drawbacks, Manning issued a call for reform.
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(CNN) -- A U.S. soldier imprisoned for leaking documents to WikiLeaks broke her silence in a fiery editorial accusing the United States of lying about Iraq.
Chelsea Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison in 2013 for leaking 750,000 pages of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group.
At the time, Manning went by the first name Bradley, but later announced the desire to live as a woman and be known as Chelsea.
Manning has stayed out of the limelight since the conviction, which spared the former intelligence analyst from the most serious charge of aiding the enemy.
But she was back Saturday, with an opinion piece titled 'The Fog Machine of War" in The New York Times. In it, she accuses the U.S. media of looking the other way when chaos and corruption reigned in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan," Manning wrote.
"I believe that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance."
She said that during the 2010 elections in Iraq, the media duped the world into thinking that all was well.
"You might remember that the American press was flooded with stories declaring the elections a success, complete with upbeat anecdotes and photographs of Iraqi women proudly displaying their ink-stained fingers," she wrote. "The subtext was that United States military operations had succeeded in creating a stable and democratic Iraq. Those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality."
She said at the time, she got regular reports detailing security forces' crackdown against dissidents "on behalf" of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.
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Chelsea Manning is serving a 35-year prison sentence on espionage charges and other offenses for passing along 700,000 secret documents, including diplomatic cables and military intelligence files, to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks in the largest-scale leak in US history.
I understand that my actions violated the law. However, the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved, the soldier formerly known as Bradley Manning wrote in a New York Times editorial.
As Iraq erupts in civil war and America again contemplates intervention, that unfinished business should give new urgency to the question of how the United States military controlled the media coverage of its long involvement there and in Afghanistan.
President Barack Obama said this week he was looking at all the options to halt the offensive that has brought militants within 50 miles (80 kilometers) of Baghdads city limits, but ruled out any return of US combat troops.
Obama has been under mounting fire from Republican critics over the swift collapse of Iraqs security forces, which Washington spent billions of dollars training and equipping before pulling out its own troops in 2011.
While the US military was upbeat in its public outlook on the 2010 Iraqi parliamentary elections, suggesting it had helped bring stability and democracy to the country, those of us stationed there were acutely aware of a more complicated reality, Manning wrote.
Military and diplomatic reports coming across my desk detailed a brutal crackdown against political dissidents by the Iraqi Ministry of Interior and federal police, on behalf of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki. Detainees were often tortured, or even killed.
Manning, a former US Army intelligence analyst, said he was shocked by our militarys complicity in the corruption of that election. Yet these deeply troubling details flew under the American medias radar.
Criticising the militarys practice of embedding journalists, Manning charged that the current limits on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in the wars we finance.
Manning is serving out the prison sentence at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and had requested a name change after court-martial proceedings revealed the soldiers emotional turmoil over sexual identity.
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BRATTLEBORO, Vt. -- It has not been extensively reported, but the Obama Administration has retained and expanded upon many of the national security abuses that were initiated during the Bush Administration.
The same acts that got liberals angry at President George W, Bush - warrantless wiretapping, the use of drones, indefinite detention of terror suspects without trial - continue under President Obama.
Daniel Ellsberg, the man who in 1971 leaked the Pentagon Papers - 7,000 pages of top secret information regarding U.S. military planning and strategy in Vietnam - to the press, has said if he tried to release them today, he would end up like Army Cpl. Bradley Manning, who could face life in prison for providing top secret material on U.S. military planning and policy in Iraq and Afghanistan to WikiLeaks.
That's because the Justice Department under President Obama has been aggressive in seeking prosecutions against suspected leakers, and the rising hostility of those in power toward anyone who challenges the status quo.
Ellsberg has joined Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky in filing a lawsuit that challenges the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). They argue that the law, signed on Dec. 31 by President Obama, authorizes the military to jail anyone it considers a terrorism suspect anywhere in the world, without charge or trial.
Despite assurances that this law only applies to U.S. members of alleged terrorist organizations overseas, there is enough ambiguity in the law that the definition of "supporter of terrorism" also includes peaceful activists, authors, academics and journalists.
That's how much the world has changed since Ellsberg decided to risk his career, and perhaps his life, to show the world the lies and wishful thinking that were behind U.S. intervention in Vietnam.
The 81-year-old Ellsberg was recently in Brattleboro, Vt., to talk about whistleblowing, and the perils it can bring to those brave enough to do it.
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WASHINGTON, May 14 (RIA Novosti) Transgender WikiLeaks contributor Chelsea Manning, imprisoned for disclosing classified US government documents, has been allowed by the Pentagon to transfer to a civilian prison to receive treatment for a gender disorder, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
Manning's recent request for hormone therapy the first ever by a transgender inmate in history was granted in the Army's approval for a transfer, anonymous sources at the Defense Department told AP.
Manning is currently serving her 35-year sentence in a Kansas military prison.
While in prison, former US Army private Bradley Manning announced via a lawyer last summer that he was a female and changed his name. The US Army, which does not allow transgender soldiers, said it does not provide hormone replacement therapy or sex reassignment surgery for inmates.
Manning, 26, was found guilty in July 2013 of multiple counts of espionage as well as theft and computer fraud connected to leaking volumes of classified US military documents to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks, including war logs about US operations in Iraq and Afghanistan while he worked as an intelligence analyst in Iraq.
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