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Chelsea Manning Again Takes Fall for Defending Public’s Right to Know
Democracy dies in darkness, indeed.
by Janine Jackson, FAIR April 1, 2019
Chelsea Manning was a US Army soldier who released to WikiLeaksIraq and Afghan war logs, with information on torture and civilian killings, including an airstrike that killed two Reuters correspondents; and diplomatic cables revealing, among other things, a secret deal between the US and Yemen in which the US would bomb the country, and the Yemeni government would claim the attacks. For Manning, these were acts that shocked the conscience, and that US citizens, in whose names they were claimed, should know about. She hoped the release to the media and the public via WikiLeaks would spark “worldwide discussion, debates and reforms.”
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