{"id":24225,"date":"2014-06-23T16:43:54","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.opensource.im\/?p=24225"},"modified":"2014-06-23T16:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T20:43:54","slug":"chelsea-manning-accuses-us-of-lying-about-iraq-in-controversial-new-york-times-op-ed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/chelsea-manning\/chelsea-manning-accuses-us-of-lying-about-iraq-in-controversial-new-york-times-op-ed.php","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Manning accuses US of lying about Iraq in controversial New York Times op-ed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Detained US soldier Chelsea Manning warned      Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more in a      recent op-ed              Said '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 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        <\/p>\n<p>    By Agence France Presse and    Michael Zennie  <\/p>\n<p>    Published: 08:22 EST, 15 June    2014 | Updated: 16:54 EST, 15 June    2014  <\/p>\n<p>      786 shares    <\/p>\n<p>      259    <\/p>\n<p>      View      comments    <\/p>\n<p>    Chelsea Manning, the U.S. soldier serving a 35-year    sentence for leaking a trove of classified documents to    WikiLeaks, has spoken out from his military prison cell in    Kansas to warn Americans that they are being lied to about Iraq    once more.<\/p>\n<p>    In a remarkable New York Times Op-Ed piece    written from behind bars, Manning said she believes the 'limits    on press freedom and excessive government secrecy make it    impossible for Americans to grasp fully what is happening in    the wars we finance.'  <\/p>\n<p>    Manning, who changed her name from Bradley after    beginning sex-reassignment treatments, also defended her leak    of 700,000 secret documents - the largest leak of U.S.    intelligence in history.<\/p>\n<p>    'I understand that my actions violated the law. However,    the concerns that motivated me have not been resolved,' she    wrote.  <\/p>\n<p><!-- Auto Generated --><\/p>\n<p>Read the rest here:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2658353\/Chelsea-Manning-accuses-US-lying-Iraq-controversial-New-York-Times-op-ed.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490\/RK=0\/RS=pWQj5LXUdhV32zYsmoYYxu02W2A-\" title=\"Chelsea Manning accuses US of lying about Iraq in controversial New York Times op-ed\">Chelsea Manning accuses US of lying about Iraq in controversial New York Times op-ed<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Detained US soldier Chelsea Manning warned Americans they were being lied to about Iraq once more in a recent op-ed Said '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 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 By Agence France Presse and Michael Zennie Published: 08:22 EST, 15 June 2014 | Updated: 16:54 EST, 15 June 2014 786 shares 259 View comments Chelsea Manning, the U.S. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chelsea-manning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euvolution.com\/open-source-convergence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}