Leaked Bradley Manning statement to military court | News Beacon ...

by News Beacon Ireland

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We bring to our reader?s attention that an audio recording of Bradley Manning?s statement to the military court has been leaked?defying a gagging order. The audio has been published by the Freedom of the Press Foundation and can be listened to under this link:

https://pressfreedomfoundation.org/blog/2013/03/help-spread-bradley-mannings-words-across-internet

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You can also download his entire statement by going to the Freedom of the Press website

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Here are some excerpts (emphasis added):

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?I felt that we were risking so much for people that seemed unwilling to cooperate with us, leading to frustration and anger on both sides.?

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?I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information contained within the CIDNE-I and CIDNE-A tables this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as [missed word] as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan.

I also believed the detailed analysis of the data over a long period of time by different sectors of society might cause society to reevaluate the need or even the desire to even to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday.?

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?I first called my local news paper, The Washington Post, and spoke with a woman saying that she was a reporter??????I do not believe she took me seriously.?

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?I then decided to contact [missed word] the most popular newspaper, The New York Times. I called the public editor number on The New York Times website. The phone rang and was answered by a machine?????.despite leaving my Skype phone number and personal email address, I never received a reply from The New York Times.?

?After these failed efforts I had ultimately decided to submit the materials to the WLO.?? (WLO = Wikileaks, inserted by editor)

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About the release of the famous helicopter attack video:

?I hoped that the public would be as alarmed as me about the conduct of the aerial weapons team crew members. I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan are targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.?

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About the diplomatic cables:

?I read more of the diplomatic cables published on the Department of State Net Centric Diplomacy. With my insatiable curiosity and interest in geopolitics I became fascinated with them. I read not only the cables on Iraq, but also about countries and events that I found interesting

The more I read, the more I was fascinated with the way that we dealt with other nations and organizations. I also began to think the documented backdoor deals and seemingly criminal activity that didn?t seem characteristic of the de facto leader of the free world.?

?The more I read the cables, the more I came to the conclusion that this was the type of information that should become public. I once read a and used a quote on open diplomacy written after the First World War and how the world would be a better place if states would avoid making secret pacts and deals with and against each other.?

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