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Showing Original Post only (View all)What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]
What did WikiLeaks reveal?PFC Bradley Manning is a US Army intelligence specialist who is accused of releasing classified information to WikiLeaks, an organization that he allegedly understood would release portions of the information to news organizations and ultimately to the public.
The "Iraq War Logs" published by WikiLeaks revealed that thousands of reports of prisoner abuse and torture had been filed against the Iraqi Security Forces. Medical evidence detailed how prisoners had been whipped with heavy cables across the feet, hung from ceiling hooks, suffered holes being bored into their legs with electric drills, urinated upon, and sexually assaulted.
U.S. defense contractors were brought under much tighter supervision after leaked diplomatic cables revealed that they had been complicit in child trafficking activities. DynCorp -- a powerful defense contracting firm that claims almost $2 billion per year in revenue from U.S. tax dollars -- threw a party for Afghan security recruits featuring boys purchased from child traffickers for entertainment.
The Guantanamo Files describe how detainees were arrested based on what the New York Times referred to as highly subjective evidence. For example, some poor farmers were captured after they were found wearing a common watch or a jacket that was the same as those also worn by Al Queda operatives. How quickly innocent prisoners were released was heavily dependent on their country of origin.
Even though the Bush and Obama Administrations maintained publicly that there was no official count of civilian casualties, the Iraq and Afghanistan War Logs showed that this claim was false. Between 2004 and 2009, the U.S. government counted a total of 109,000 deaths in Iraq, with 66,081 classified as non-combatants. This means that for every Iraqi death that is classified as a combatant, two innocent men, women or children are also killed.
-U.S. Military officials withheld information about the indiscriminate killing of Reuters journalists and innocent Iraqi civilians.
-The State Department backed corporate opposition to a Haitian minimum wage law.
-The U.S. Government had long been faking its public support for Tunisian President Ben Ali.
-Known Egyptian torturers received training from the FBI in Quantico, Virginia.
-The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General's DNA.
-The Obama Administration allowed Yemen's President to cover up a secret U.S. drone bombing campaign.
MORE:
http://www.bradleymanning.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/WikiLeaks2.pdf
http://www.bradleymanning.org/news/what-did-wikileaks-reveal
Meanwhile, still free to roam the streets, take their book tours and collect their 5- and 6-digit speaking fees, is the cabal of scorpions that rationalized torture which they claimed was not torture, secretly rendered people off the streets of U.S. allies and secretly transported them to secret prisons in nations ruled by dictatorial regimes, fabricated evidence to take us into Iraq, where thousands of Americans and tens if not hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died in the conflict, conjured up a hell-hole at Guantánamo Bay, a place the attorneys created to be jurisdictionlessnot quite the U.S., not quite Cubaand thus free from both American and international law.
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What Manning Revealed - Read This & Tell Me Just WHO Is Our Government Keeping Safe? [View all]
kpete
Jul 2013
OP
He was found guilty today. He will serve the remainder of his life in prison for it.
Major Hogwash
Jul 2013
#2
If I recall correctly he could have just reported it to a member of congress
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#80
True getting congress to act would be difficult but there is the other option of
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#123
Zorra, stop that. He didn't say he was pleased. He simply stated the fact. Enough.
DevonRex
Jul 2013
#28
I will continue to speak out against fascists and fascism whenever, and wherever.
Zorra
Jul 2013
#86
Highly disturbing. This IS Democratic Underground. So you know, in case you've forgotten.
Divine Discontent
Jul 2013
#97
Ok, you can go crawl back into the "Cave", or the other "underground" you crawled out of...
Ghost in the Machine
Jul 2013
#116
"Major Hogwash" is a character you're playing, right? Like "Miss Information"?
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#50
Are you happy about this injustice and the fact the war criminals will live out their lives in
sabrina 1
Jul 2013
#58
You seem to have missed the big picture. This isn't about Manning. It's about our government.
Gregorian
Jul 2013
#68
Well, sure sounds like it's those "scoripons" for the 1 percent... nt
AnotherDreamWeaver
Jul 2013
#3
We have an up hill battle. Even some so-called Democrats here side with the authoritarian state. nm
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#4
I think they are just afraid. They were raised in comfortable security and they are
rhett o rick
Jul 2013
#59
I think a good many are Republican runaways, re-registering as Dems to escape the insane GOP
DJ13
Jul 2013
#62
LAPD clearly planted blood in OJ's house. PD's plant guns, drugs all the time. Big Govt taking cues?
chimpymustgo
Jul 2013
#46
Excuse me? We have no "authority" to "demand" the DNA of foreigners in leadership roles.
MADem
Jul 2013
#104
US defense contractor involved in child traficking? Beyond vile, disgusting, horrifying!
Divernan
Jul 2013
#10
Sure thats wrong but I assume you must have meant to reply to someone else as
cstanleytech
Jul 2013
#88
"you say manning broke the law" No, Manning did that when he pleaded guilty.
cstanleytech
Aug 2013
#169
I thought it was Wackenhut/Armorgroup that trafficked young boys, not Dyncorp.
OnyxCollie
Jul 2013
#26
Widespread practice, and yet people are not angered by this, but by the fact that it was revealed
Bluenorthwest
Jul 2013
#60
In Bizarro world, child traffickers go free while those who call bullshit on it are imprisoned. n/t
Fire Walk With Me
Jul 2013
#52
The Obama Administration: Protecting Criminals and Screwing Over Whistleblowers, 24/7
MotherPetrie
Jul 2013
#25
I believe I gave it more attention than Manning did the hundreds of thousands of documents he stole.
randome
Jul 2013
#130
So you want to throw the hundred thousand or so soldiers who served in Iraq in prison?
randome
Jul 2013
#137
Your quote does not support your opinion about Manning not being a whistleblower.
blackspade
Jul 2013
#139
Total sentence for all of those crimes: 0. But all of this, for revealing them.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#51
It's always a sick feeling seeing people so glibly enable that evil. "Traitors" indeed.
DirkGently
Jul 2013
#63
The empire IS evil, the corporate-military the 1% banksters have built is an evil empire..,
Civilization2
Jul 2013
#70
If Obama only knew, surely he would do something. Why don't his aides tell him?
AnotherMcIntosh
Jul 2013
#155
Like Obama's 30,000 armed Drones flying the US skies by 2020, they're protecting the 1% from the 99%
blkmusclmachine
Jul 2013
#156
"The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General's DNA. "
GiaGiovanni
Aug 2013
#173