Memos and
documents revealed by Freedom of Information Act requests shine light
on the extreme lengths the U.S. government took to try to stop
whistleblowers in the wake of Chelsea Manning’s massive leak of
army reports and diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks.
The
documents, released on Sunday by national security journalist Alexa
O’Brien on her website and Twitter account, are the results of
several FOIA requests pertaining to the U.S. government’s response
to WikiLeaks’ publication of classified documents.
Manning, who
served as a U.S. Army intelligence officer in Iraq, gave WikiLeaks
hundreds of thousands of classified files in 2010, which the website
published online. In 2013, she was sentenced to 35 years in prison,
which she is currently serving at a military facility at Ft.
Leavenworth, Kansas.
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To be honest, the fact that most of
us slightly got angry or surprised with Panama Papers revelations,
shows that the Matrix that we live in has already affected the
moral centers of our brain. However, there are hopeful signs of
resistance. Only one example is the mass movement created by
Bernie Sanders in the United States. And that's one of the most
serious reasons for the fierce hunt of the real whistleblowers by
the establishment, in order to take the monopoly of the leak
"industry".
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