Neither the accused nor the mental health provider found any evidence of significant mental health problem. On 15 September [Manning] was command referred to the Fort Drum mental health clinic.
The mental health provider described [Manning] as presenting almost rigidly physically and emotionally through out the discussion, and no other probable cause for his being sent is developed.
His demeanor is reflected as his perhaps being perceived as odd by others, although there does not appear to be anything diagnosable about it. The accused was assessed with personality disorder Defense Coombs : Even though you were roomies, would it be fair to say you were not friends? Eric Baker : Yes. Defense Coombs : You did not talk? Baker : No. Defense Coombs : Conversations were limited to small things like, "Turn off the lights," or "Turn on the lights. Defense Coombs : He [Manning] said some stuff that made you think he was gay?
Baker : Yes. Defense Coombs : And you told him it was best if you didn't speak? Defense Coombs : Isn't that exactly what you told him? Defense Coombs : "I think it's best we don't talk"? On 24 December , [Manning] was command referred to FOB Hammer Combat Stress Clinic for a command-directed evaluation due to anger outbursts over the past year and a half-- where he shoved a chair and began yelling at NCOIC, Master Sergeant Paul Adkins after he counseled him on the loss of a room key and yelled and flipped the table when counseled by his supervisors.
With respect to his current condition, [Manning] reported he was working the late shift with three other service members and that it was lonely. He reported persistent worry and anxiety about oversleeping and being late for duty and also a hypersensitivity to criticism of his mistakes. The accused had a normal mental status examination. During this time a blizzard bombarded the mid-atlantic, and I spent a significant period of time essentially stuck in my aunt's house in Maryland.
I began to think about what I knew and the information I still had in my possession. For me, the SigActs represented the on the ground reality of both the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. 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. I began to become depressed with the situation that we found ourselves increasingly mired in year after year. The SigActs documented this in great detail and provide a context of what we were seeing on the ground.
In attempting to conduct counter-terrorism or CT and counter-insurgency COIN operations we became obsessed with capturing and killing human targets on lists and not being suspicious of and avoiding cooperation with our Host Nation partners, and ignoring the second and third order effects of accomplishing short-term goals and missions.
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 well 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 engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday.
It's already been sanitized of any source identifying information. You might need to sit on this information—perhaps 90 to days to figure out how best to release such a large amount of data and to protect its source. This is possibly one of the more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of twenty-first century asymmetric warfare. Have a good day. It was clear to me that the event happened because the aerial weapons team mistakenly identified Reuters employees as a potential threat and that the people in the bongo truck were merely attempting to assist the wounded.
The people in the van were not a threat but merely 'good samaritans'. The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seemly delightful bloodlust they appeared to have.
They dehumanized the individuals they were engaging and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as quote "dead bastards" unquote and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers.
At one point in the video there is an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the aerial weapons team crew members verbally asks for the wounded person to pick up a weapon so that he can have a reason to engage.
For me, this seems similar to a child torturing ants with a magnifying glass. Due to the strict adherence of anonymity by the WLO, we never exchanged identifying information.
However, I believe the individual was likely Mr. Julian Assange, Mr. Daniel Schmidt, or a proxy representative of Mr. Assange and Schmidt. As the communications transferred from IRC to the Jabber client, I gave 'office' and later 'pressassociation' the name of Nathaniel Frank in my address book, after the author of a book I read in As received by Wired, the logs contained timestamps but not dates, so the dates below are approximate.
We have substituted the instant messenger screen names with real names. The excerpts represent about 25 percent of the logs. Portions of the chats that discuss deeply personal information about Manning or that reveal apparently sensitive military information are not included. This initial, brief chat with Lamo occurred after Manning had already sent the ex-hacker an e-mail.
Manning very quickly identified his job in the military and his access to classified documents. Manning told Lamo that he had provided Wikileaks with , classified State Department diplomatic cables.
Lamo asked him for details on what scandals the cables might expose. Manning didn't provide a lot of detail, but he pointed to one cable a "test" that Wikileaks already published. He didn't elaborate on what he meant by "test. I'm genuinely curious about details. In this chat, Manning discussed his role as a source for Wikileaks and his interactions with its enigmatic founder, Julian Assange. She continued to plead not guilty to several other charges while her court martial proceeded.
On July 30, Manning was found guilty of 20 counts, including espionage, theft and computer fraud. However, the judge ruled she was not guilty of aiding the enemy, the most serious charge Manning had faced.
On August 21, , Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Manning was dishonorably discharged, reduced in rank and forced to forfeit all pay. The Obama administration maintained that military and diplomatic sources were endangered by Manning's leaks. Even with Manning's conviction, the debate continues as to whether she shared dangerous intelligence or if she was a whistleblower who received too harsh of a punishment.
On the day after her sentencing, Manning announced via a statement on the morning talk show Today that she is transgender. I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible," Manning said. After filing a court petition, Manning was granted the right in late April of to be legally recognized as Chelsea Elizabeth Manning. The army made hormone therapy available to the former intelligence analyst, who continued to be held at Fort Leavenworth, though other restrictions were imposed, including measures on hair length.
During the summer of , Manning was reportedly threatened with solitary confinement for prison rule violations that her attorneys asserted were veiled forms of harassment by authorities.
On July 5, , Manning was hospitalized after a suicide attempt. She faced a disciplinary hearing related to her suicide attempt and was sentenced to solitary confinement. On October 4, , while spending the first night in solitary confinement, she attempted suicide again. Support for her release continued to grow and in the waning days of President Barack Obama's presidency, , people signed a petition asking him to commute her sentence.
On January 17, , Obama did just that, cutting short Manning's remaining prison sentence, which allowed her to be freed on May 17, An administration official said she was not immediately released in order to allow for time to handle items like procuring housing. Manning served seven years of the year sentence, with some Republicans, including Speaker of the House Paul Ryan , critiquing the act of clemency. Manning has shared her perspectives on gender identity, imprisonment and political affairs via a series of columns written for The Guardian.
Four months after her release from prison, Manning appeared in the September issue of Vogu e magazine, featuring photographs by Annie Liebovitz. Those are really foundational for me. Do and say and be who you are because, no matter what happens, you are loved unconditionally. In early , Manning announced she was challenging Maryland's two-term U. Senator Ben Cardin in the Democratic primary. Positioning herself to the left of her opponent, whom she dismissed as an establishment insider, she called for a reduced police presence in the streets and championed the idea of a universal basic income.
For Manning, who has lived in Maryland since her release from prison, the choice to run for office in "the place that I have the strongest roots and ties to out of anywhere else" was an easy one. However, her bid was considered a long shot against a popular incumbent, particularly after a pair of late-May tweets that sparked concern about her well-being. In late February , Manning revealed that she was fighting a subpoena to testify before a grand jury about her interactions with WikiLeaks.
She was taken into custody March 9, after a federal judge found her in contempt for her refusal to cooperate, and spent a month in solitary confinement in a Virginia prison before being moved into its general population.
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