The Passion of Bradley Manning: The Story of the Suspect Behind the Largest Security Breach in U.S. History
In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Armys 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous Collateral Murder gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits courtmartial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twentyfour, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American historyand why was it so easy? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower? Is longterm isolation an outrage to American valuesor the new norm? Are the leaks revolutionary or a sensational nonevent? Which is the greater security threat, routinized elite secrecy or flashes of transparency? And what impact does new information really have? The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantnamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to smalltown Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.
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In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Armys 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous Collateral Murder gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits courtmartial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twentyfour, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American historyand why was it so easy? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower? Is longterm isolation an outrage to American valuesor the new norm? Are the leaks revolutionary or a sensational nonevent? Which is the greater security threat, routinized elite secrecy or flashes of transparency? And what impact does new information really have? The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantnamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to smalltown Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.
