I am Bradley Manning

WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning | Common Dreams

WikiLeaks’ New Release: The Kissinger Cables and Bradley Manning | Common Dreams
"WikiLeaks’ latest release, which includes documents already declassified but very difficult to search and obtain, is a testament to the ongoing need for WikiLeaks and similar groups. The revealed documents have sparked controversies around the world, even though they relate to the 1970s. If we had a uniform standard of justice, Nobel laureate Henry Kissinger would be the one on trial, and Bradley Manning would win the Nobel Peace Prize."

A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time | Common Dreams

A Salute to Bradley Manning, Whistleblower, As We Hear His Words for the First Time | Common Dreams
"Whoever made this recording, and I don't know who the person is, has done the American public a great service. This marks the first time the American public can hear Bradley Manning, in his own voice explain what he did and how he did it."

Leaked: Bradley Manning's Military Court Testimony

Leaked: Bradley Manning's Military Court Testimony
"In this newly released audio, Private Bradley Manning explains his motives, noting how he believed the WikiLeaks documents showed wrongdoing by the government and how he hoped that the release would "spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general as it related to Iraq and Afghanistan"."

Manning Statement Audio Leaked in Opposition to 'Extreme Secrecy in Our Courts' | Common Dreams

Manning Statement Audio Leaked in Opposition to 'Extreme Secrecy in Our Courts' | Common Dreams
"In the recording, leaked in violation of court orders late Monday, Manning explains to a pre-trial military court in Fort Meade why he released the United States government files to WikiLeaks. The recording is the first time the public has heard Manning's voice since his arrest in May 2010."

Bradley Manning: The Conscience of America | Common Dreams

Bradley Manning: The Conscience of America | Common Dreams
"Hopefully, Bradley Manning’s statement will someday be read in classrooms all across the country as example of the duty each of us has to act in the face of criminality and evil.  Hopefully, he will be free to add to the discussion, remark on his terrible ordeal and be recognized as the hero he is. But no matter how long he is imprisoned, we all must recognize that to lock him up for even a day is to lock up the conscience of our nation."

Glenn Greenwald on Bradley Manning: Prosecutor Overreach

We Are Bradley Manning | Common Dreams

We Are Bradley Manning | Common Dreams
"This trial is not simply the prosecution of a 25-year-old soldier who had the temerity to report to the outside world the indiscriminate slaughter, war crimes, torture and abuse that are carried out by our government and our occupation forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. It is a concerted effort by the security and surveillance state to extinguish what is left of a free press, one that has the constitutional right to expose crimes by those in power."

Bradley Manning: Public Has Right To Know About War Crimes

Bradley Manning: Public Has Right To Know About War Crimes
"Michael Ratner, American attorney for Julian Assange, reports he was in the courtroom and witnessed Manning speak with confidence and intelligence as he detailed the outrages that drove him to upload the documents to Wikileaks"

Bradley Manning: The Face of Heroism | Common Dreams

Bradley Manning: The Face of Heroism | Common Dreams
"Heroism is a slippery and ambiguous concept. But whatever it means, it is embodied by Bradley Manning and the acts which he unflinchingly acknowledged today he chose to undertake. The combination of extreme government secrecy, a supine media (see the prior two columns), and a disgracefully subservient judiciary means that the only way we really learn about what our government does is when the Daniel Ellsbergs - and Bradley Mannings - of the world risk their own personal interest and liberty to alert us. Daniel Ellberg is now widely viewed as heroic and noble, and Bradley Manning (as Ellsberg himself hasrepeatedly said) merits that praise and gratitude every bit as much."

History Will Damn the Persecutors of Bradley Manning | Common Dreams

History Will Damn the Persecutors of Bradley Manning | Common Dreams
"History will damn the persecutors of Bradley Manning. Big powers who hide crimes away from their own people – while claiming to act in their name, of course – fear few more than those determined to hold them to account."

We are All Bradley Manning: 1000 Days in Jail without a Conviction | Common Dreams

We are All Bradley Manning: 1000 Days in Jail without a Conviction | Common Dreams
"Bradley Manning, the young army private who allegedly disclosed the Wikileaks files, must be given a fair, open and speedy trial. He has been held over three years, often in solitary and inhumane conditions. He has been convicted of no crime. This is simply and self-evidently wrong."

Defense Lawyer: US Treatment of Manning a 'Disgraceful Moment in Time' | Common Dreams

Defense Lawyer: US Treatment of Manning a 'Disgraceful Moment in Time' | Common Dreams
"David Coombs, the civilian defense attorney representing the U.S. Army private accused of releasing military reports to WikiLeaks in the case US v. Bradley Manning, gave his first public presentation Monday evening to an audience of over 100 supporters at the All Souls Unitarian Church in Washington DC."

Bradley Manning: A Tale of Liberty Lost in America | Common Dreams

Bradley Manning: A Tale of Liberty Lost in America | Common Dreams
"Over the past two and a half years, all of which he has spent in a military prison, much has been said about Bradley Manning, but nothing has been heard from him. That changed on Thursday, when the 23-year-old US army private accused of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks testified at his court martial proceeding about the conditions of his detention."