Chelsea Manning

Blank Space: A Cultural History of the Twenty-First Century

by W. David Marx  · 18 Nov 2025  · 642pp  · 142,332 words

classified documents about US actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2010, it made global headlines by publishing top-secret war documents provided by intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning. This leak, and Manning’s subsequent imprisonment, cemented Assange’s status as the face of “hacktivism”—a controversial new frontier in the fight for transparency

The WikiLeaks Files: The World According to US Empire

by Wikileaks  · 24 Aug 2015  · 708pp  · 176,708 words

on November 28, 2010, as part of a cache of classified diplomatic cables allegedly leaked by a former private in the US army, Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning. They were leaked alongside the disclosures about Tunisia that led to Ben Ali’s downfall. The WikiLeaks cables had a complex series of effects inside

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it held.26 This charge of “terrorism” was not merely lazy or overexcited: there was real power behind it. The 2013 prosecution of Chelsea—then Bradley—Manning, the soldier who had leaked the cables to the website, depended upon the claim that she had “aided the enemy”—a charge that is close

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of revelations through WikiLeaks by capturing one of the people accused of leaking the original cables from the State Department, US army private Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning, and torturing him. A State Department spokesperson who criticized this practice was forced to resign. Yet it appears that none of those responsible for the

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reported, “no soldier or official involved in the Iraq war has faced the level of vindictive punishment that US prosecutors have sought to impose on [Chelsea] Manning.”2 Journalist Glenn Greenwald has documented extensively how “elite immunity” works to protect the rich and powerful from prosecution in the US, including those responsible

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.loc-gov. 9Subsequently reversed. Kevin Gosztola, “US National Archives Has Blocked Searches for ‘WikiLeaks,’” The Dissenter, November 3, 2012, at dissenter.firedoglake.com. 10Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning was detained without trial for 1,103 days, an infringement of her right to speedy justice. The United Nations special rapporteur for torture, Juan Méndez

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, formally found that Manning had been treated in a manner that was cruel and inhuman, and that possibly amounted to torture. See Ed Pilkington, “Bradley Manning’s Treatment Was Cruel and Inhuman, UN Torture Chief Rules,” Guardian, March 12, 2012. The government charged Manning—accused of being a journalistic source for

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of Military Justice, including parts of the Espionage Act, the combined maximum sentence for which was over one hundred years in prison. See Kim Zetter, “Bradley Manning Charged with 22 New Counts, Including Capital Offense,” Wired, February 3, 2011, at wired.com. Manning was prohibited by the court from making defense arguments

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as to public interest, motive, or the lack of actual harm resulting from her alleged actions (see Ed Pilkington, “Bradley Manning Denied Chance to Make Whistleblower Defence,” Guardian, January 17, 2013), and she offered a limited guilty plea (see Alexa O’Brien, “Pfc. Manning’s Statement

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Tom McCarthy, “Bradley Manning Tells Lawyer After Sentencing: ‘I’m Going to Be OK’—as it happened,” Guardian, August 21, 2013. At the time of publication, she is appealing her case to the United States Army Court of Criminal Appeals, and a hearing is expected in mid 2015. See “Chelsea Manning’s 35-Year

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Prison Sentence Upheld by US Army General,” Guardian, April 14, 2014. 11Josh Gerstein, “Blocking WikiLeaks Emails Trips Up Bradley Manning Prosecution,” Politico, March 15, 2012, at www.politico.com. 12Simon DeDeo, Robert X. D

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, “Jolt in WikiLeaks Case: Feds Found Manning-Assange Chat Logs on Laptop,” Wired, December 19, 2011. 28Ed Pilkington, “Bradley Manning Treated More Harshly than a Terrorist, Lawyer Argues,” Guardian, July 12, 2012; Ed Pilkington, “Bradley Manning’s Treatment Was Cruel and Inhuman, UN Torture Chief Rules,” Guardian, March 12, 2012. 29See Richard Jackson, Marie

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to fight for the Taliban. Even though he possessed a weapon, he had never fired it (wikileaks.org/gitmo/pdf/af/us9af-000909dp.pdf). 73Pilkington, “Bradley Manning’s Treatment Was Cruel and Inhuman”; Ryan Creed, “Comments on Prisoner Treatment Cause State Department Spokesman to Lose His Job,” ABC News, March 13, 2011

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Guantánamo Files: The Stories of the 774 Detainees in America’s Illegal Prison (London/Ann Arbor, MI: Pluto Press, 2007). 90Chase Madar, The Passion of Bradley Manning (New York/London: Verso, 2013), p. 132. 91“WikiLeaks Documents Reveal US Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men at Guantánamo,” Democracy Now!, April 25, 2011, at

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, Elders to Make Final Decision,” Reuters, October 13, 2013, at reuters.com. 2Josh Dougherty, “When Victimless Crimes Matter and Victims Don’t: The Trial of Bradley Manning,” Iraq Body Count, August 2, 2013, at iraqbodycount.org. 3Glen Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality

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’s treatment of Julian Assange since 2010. She has been actively involved in campaigning to support WikiLeaks and defend the rights of Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. Gareth Porter is an independent investigative journalist and historian who specializes in covering issues related to the US national security state. Since 2004, he has

Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The Story of Anonymous

by Gabriella Coleman  · 4 Nov 2014  · 457pp  · 126,996 words

player in town: the whistleblowing sensation WikiLeaks. More specifically, interest coalesced around the recent trove of documents and footage a young army private (then) named Bradley Manning had leaked, which WikiLeaks had then laid at the feet of the world. Founded in 2006, the driving concept behind WikiLeaks had been simple: provide

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. “Well, it’s their fault for bringing their kids to a battle,” he remarks nonchalantly. As we all now know, Bradley Manning (who has since changed names—and genders—to become Chelsea Manning) made the choice to leak the video, along with other vital documents, and a hacker named Adrian Lamo ratted him out

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beginning. The Tiger Consumes Four Chickens a Day But let’s back up to the onset of revolution itself. Mohammed Bouazizi, WikiLeaks and Nawaat, and Chelsea Manning all deserve thanks for its inception. In 2010, living under the Ben Ali regime since 1989, scores of Tunisians were downtrodden, living in deplorable conditions

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–esque blackmail proposal: Sabu: penny. we will not target hbgary.com. its done. what you can do is motivate your investment from hbgaryfederal over to bradley mannings defense fund. and distance yourselves from aaron barnetts’[sic] research Agamemnon: Penny… we are under fire in ways you do not understand. Not just the

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: greg, in essence we want you to distance yourself and company from aaron BarrettBrown: Like I said, great time to donate to Tunisia evilworks: or Bradley manning evilworks: whichever Would his honest appeal work? With the reappearance of another lead, we are ushered into the play’s final act. ACT THREE CogAnon

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how it skirted any question of the pressing political issues raised by Cablegate in favor of a sensationalist psychoanalyzing of the “dark” inner life of Chelsea Manning. LulzSec launched a two-pronged campaign. Once it hacked into PBS, it dumped the personal data of PBS staff and defaced its website, leaving a

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industrial beast with technology.” For a period he answered “yes,” and he backed away. But with the emergence of WikiLeaks, and the leaks provided by Chelsea Manning in particular, he saw the potential of technology “to expose crime.” At his sentencing, he would pay tribute to Chelesea Manning: “She took an enormous

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noted that “2600 has a history of condemning attacks, including when Anonymous ddosed mastercard and others for wikileaks.” Adrian Lamo, the hacker who snitched on Chelsea Manning, had at one point been active in the 2600 scene, with access to an account on 2600’s mail/shell server. According to some, Lamo

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as “an act of loving egalitarian criminality,”1 they also used 30,000 of the credit cards to donate an estimated $700,000 to “the Bradley Manning Support Organization, the EFF, the ACLU, CARE, American Red Cross, Amnesty International, Greenpeace, some commies, some prisoners, various occupations, and many more unnamed homies.”2Let

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and activists working with politicians, lawyers, journalists, and artists. Many emerged from the geeky quarters of the Internet. There is Julian Assange, WikiLeaks, Birgitta Jónsdóttir, Chelsea Manning, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Sarah Harrison, the Tor Developers, Anonymous, Alec Empire, Risup, Edward Snowden, and many more. The last two years have been singular

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journalist. He has also said that he is a minister for the Universal Life Church. See Luis Martinez, “Bradley Manning Accuser Adrian Lamo Takes the Stand,” Dec. 20, 2011, abcnews.go.com. 5. Ed Pilkington, “Bradley Manning’s treatment was cruel and inhuman, UN torture chief rules,” theguardian.com, March 12, 2012. 6. Raffi

Spies, Lies, and Algorithms: The History and Future of American Intelligence

by Amy B. Zegart  · 6 Nov 2021

That information was classified94 even though the CIA’s drone program had already been widely covered in the press.95 In early 2010, Army PFC Chelsea Manning illegally downloaded hundreds of thousands of classified documents about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan onto a fake Lady Gaga CD while lip syncing to

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out six thousand documents and hand them to the Russians, one small garbage bag at a time. By contrast, in 2010, Army Private First Class Chelsea Manning downloaded the contents of 250,000 classified State Department cables on a fake Lady Gaga CD while lip syncing to the song “Telephone.” Former National

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/07/09/world/09breach.html (accessed March 26, 2020); Matthew Shaer, “The Long, Lonely Road of Chelsea Manning,” New York Times, June 12, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/magazine/the-long-lonely-road-of-chelsea-manning.html?searchResultPosition=3 (accessed August 20, 2020). 97. Stephanie Gaskell, “How badly did Manning hurt

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the United States,” Defense One, August 22, 2013, https://www.defenseone.com/ideas/2013/08/how-badly-did-manning-hurt-united-states/69218/. 98. Julie Tate, “Bradley Manning Sentenced to 35 Years

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in WikiLeaks Case,” Washington Post, August 21, 2013, https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/judge-to-sentence-bradley-manning-today/2013/08/20/85bee184-09d0-11e3-b87c-476db8ac34cd_story.html (accessed August 20, 2020); Reuters, “Leaked U.S. Video Shows Deaths of Reuters’ Iraqi

Surveillance Valley: The Rise of the Military-Digital Complex

by Yasha Levine  · 6 Feb 2018  · 474pp  · 130,575 words

been better. Late that summer WikiLeaks caused an international sensation by publishing a huge cache of classified government documents stolen and leaked by Chelsea (née Bradley) Manning, a young US Army private who was stationed in Iraq. First came the war logs from Afghanistan, showing how the United States had systematically underreported

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every type of consumer computer system. Sure, encryption apps might work against low-level opponents when used by a trained army intelligence analyst like Pvt. Chelsea Manning, who had used Tor while stationed in Iraq to monitor forums used by Sunni insurgents without giving away his identity.151 They also might work

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-of-crypto. 150. “Vault 7: CIA Hacking Tools Revealed,” WikiLeaks, March 7, 2017, https://wikileaks.org/ciav7p1/. 151. It later emerged during the trial of Chelsea Manning that the army private used Tor during his work in Iraq. “Tor is a system intended to provide anonymity online. The software routes internet traffic

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previously installed on a computer to anonymously monitor the social media website of militia groups operating within central Iraq,” he said during trial. Micah Lee, “Bradley Manning’s Statement Shows that US Intelligence Analysts Are Trained in Using Tor,” Micah Lee’s Blog, March 12, 2013, https://micahflee.com/2013/03

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/bradley-mannings-statement-shows-that-us-intelligence-analysts-are-trained-in-using-tor/. 152. In 2010, 70 percent of people polled by Gallup said they were against

Free Speech: Ten Principles for a Connected World

by Timothy Garton Ash  · 23 May 2016  · 743pp  · 201,651 words

and magazines—including Der Spiegel, Le Monde and The Hindu—of carefully redacted versions of secret US State Department communications leaked by Private Bradley (subsequently Chelsea) Manning via Julian Assange’s WikiLeaks, and then a selection of the NSA and GCHQ documents passed to them by Snowden. When he first met the

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good journalism. A public interest was served by the publication in leading newspapers of carefully selected and redacted documents from among those that Bradley (subsequently Chelsea) Manning passed to WikiLeaks. To give just one instance, I will never forget the emotional impact of a routine military report from Afghanistan reproduced in the

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://perma.cc/3VHS-H7UZ 78. see photograph and text in New York Times, ‘The War Logs’, 26 July 2010, A8 79. but see Matt Sledge, ‘Bradley Manning Sentencing Testimony Suggests WikiLeaks Not Responsible for Any Deaths’, Huffington Post, 8 March 2013, http://perma.cc/3SCZ-73DC 80. see Timothy Garton Ash, ‘WikiLeaks

The Snowden Files: The Inside Story of the World's Most Wanted Man

by Luke Harding  · 7 Feb 2014  · 266pp  · 80,018 words

the most significant since the Pentagon Papers, eclipsing the 2010 release of US diplomatic cables and warlogs by a disaffected US army private, Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning. It would lift the lid on mass surveillance, not just of millions of Americans but the entire world. But it was a big if. A

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, published by the Guardian in London in 2010, were of US diplomatic cables and war-logs from Afghanistan and Iraq leaked by the US private Chelsea Manning. A few – just 6 per cent – were classified at the relatively modest level of ‘secret’. The Snowden files were in a different league. They were

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all along had been that after the first few stories, he would make himself known. This didn’t mean, however, that Snowden wished to emulate Chelsea Manning, whose arrest in 2010 and harsh jail treatment he had followed closely. Snowden said: ‘Manning was a classic whistleblower. He was inspired by the public

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another anti-US whistleblower in trouble, apparently just like him. In 2010, Assange had leaked the thousands of classified documents obtained from the US private Chelsea Manning. Their publication, in collaboration with the Guardian and other newspapers, had caused a global furore. Manning was jailed and a grand jury reportedly investigated Assange

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: ‘The Obama administration has now adopted the strategy of using citizenship as a weapon … In the end [it] is not afraid of whistleblowers like me, Bradley Manning or Thomas Drake. We are stateless, imprisoned, or powerless. No, the Obama administration is afraid of you. It is afraid of an informed, angry public

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the then US ambassador John Beyrle wrote a frank cable to the US State Department, one of several thousand written from Russia and leaked by Chelsea Manning. It read: ‘Harassing activity against all embassy personnel has spiked in the past several months to a level not seen in many years. Embassy staff

Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs

by Kerry Howley  · 21 Mar 2023

reason for risking their lives, and whether this was catalyst or rationalization would remain mysterious perhaps even to them. Edward Snowden signed up in 2005, Chelsea Manning in 2009, Reality Winner in 2010. In any story, there is a last moment in which the protagonist might have walked away, unbothered by consequence

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gave a twenty-one-year-old soldier raw war footage from which she was supposed to write reports for the higher-ups. All day long Chelsea Manning watched acts of war take place on a screen and tried to process them. She had access to all sorts of footage taken from above

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thrown up on top of a basketball court. She sat at the free throw line, and in all the accounts I have ever read of Chelsea Manning spilling America’s most shameful secrets, I have never seen it noted that it was here where it would occur to her to blow the

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prove hard for her. Reality was intellectual but she had not been raised in an intellectually sophisticated household. In this she resembles Edward Snowden and Chelsea Manning and Jesselyn Radack and Daniel Hale. An intellectual orphan comes to knowledge absent the social pressure to conform to a particular set of ideas. Reality

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beyond a reasonable doubt.” Now there were emails to subpoena, texts to call up. They had the receipts. * * * — In the SCIF on the basketball court Chelsea Manning opened a CD labeled lady gaga and downloaded hundreds of thousands of documents. She downloaded the video in which men with cameras were taken to

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back, and made his case, and faced the music. He could come back and make that case here on the show!” This was in 2014. Chelsea Manning was serving her sentence in a military prison in Kansas, during which she would not have the opportunity to appear on Real Time with Bill

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to bring a woman officer, and so they had to call for one. It had already been hours; Reality waited some more. What happened to Chelsea Manning? she asked herself. She was disappeared to Quantico. Quantico was a seven-hour drive. Is that where they were going? Reality realized she didn’t

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Manning, a friend to Assange, an antagonistic publication that refused to take the administration’s talking points. Reality turned to The Intercept for news of Chelsea Manning and the war in Yemen; she had once emailed the publication asking for a transcript of a podcast about climate change. She did not turn

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: Public Affairs, 2011. Lyon, David. The Culture of Surveillance: Watching as a Way of Life. Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, 2018. Mader, Chase. The Passion of Bradley Manning. New York: Verso Books, 2013. Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American

Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World

by Joseph Menn  · 3 Jun 2019  · 302pp  · 85,877 words

wide variety of documents and seemed most focused on government wrongdoing. When it obtained tens of thousands of US State Department cables from then Private Bradley Manning (now Chelsea Manning) in 2010, it worked with media partners that sifted through for important stories while not printing information that could lead to the deaths of

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by Glenn Greenwald  · 12 May 2014  · 253pp  · 75,772 words

belonged. I never found a single misplaced or misfiled document. I had spent years defending what I view as the heroic acts of Chelsea (then Bradley) Manning, the army private and whistle-blower who became so horrified at the behavior of the US government—its war crimes and other systematic deceit—that

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story, conveyed his motives, and proclaimed that “Snowden will go down in history as one of America’s most consequential whistleblowers, alongside Daniel Ellsberg and Bradley Manning.” We quoted from Snowden’s early note to Laura and me: “I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions … but I

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two women in Sweden. Notably, the attacks on Assange were carried out by the same newspapers that had worked with him and had benefited from Chelsea Manning’s disclosures, which Assange and WikiLeaks had enabled. When the New York Times published what it called “The Iraq War Logs,” thousands of classified documents

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the Times might want to take a look in the mirror if its editors wanted to understand why sources revealing major national security stories, like Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden, did not feel safe or motivated to bring them their information. It is true that the New York Times published large troves

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to follow in all of the work I do. Other courageous whistle-blowers who have endured persecution to bring vital truths to the world include Chelsea Manning, Jesselyn Radack, and Thomas Tamm, as well as former NSA officials Thomas Drake and Bill Binney. They played a critical role in inspiring Snowden as

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