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Ford_Prefect

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13. I take it that no one now recalls the significance or the content released?

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Thu Mar 21, 2019, 11:47 AM

Mar 2019

The documents covered events from 2004 to 2009 in the Iraq and Afghan wars which showed actions by US forces in a raw and unflattering light.

One particular aspect was the number of civilian casualties and how often they had occurred. Another was the perspective it gave to the overall failure of the Afghan campaign.

Prior to this point Congress and the American people were largely unaware of the truth on the ground about either war.

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Chelsea Manning May Have Given False Testimony in WikiLeaks Trial, Say Prosecutors [View all] DonViejo Mar 2019 OP

Greenwald and Assange were unavailable for comment Blue_Tires Mar 2019 #1

.... ehrnst Mar 2019 #4

Throw away the key. She's no friend of the United States. (n/t) FreepFryer Mar 2019 #2

Yes she is. She's a whistle-blower. bitterross Mar 2019 #3

Were you here at the time? leftynyc Mar 2019 #6

I support the question. FarPoint Mar 2019 #8

A lot of people also had a big problem with those who divulged info on Ma Lai. LiberalArkie Mar 2019 #15

It was thoroughly irresponsible to leftynyc Mar 2019 #17

I was here and I didn't have a problem with the information being released JonLP24 Mar 2019 #21

It was released during the latter half of Obama's first term OnlinePoker Mar 2019 #7

Whistle-blower has a specific legal definition hack89 Mar 2019 #10

Thanks for the GOP take on it. /nt bitterross Mar 2019 #20

No. That is the legal take on it hack89 Mar 2019 #24

No, she isn't. cab67 Mar 2019 #14

I had problems with how she did it... SkyDaddy7 Mar 2019 #18

I served in Iraq I have no problem with what Manning released JonLP24 Mar 2019 #22

You and me both leftynyc Mar 2019 #26

Seems like prosecutors are unhappy with Obama's communting her sentence bitterross Mar 2019 #5

I think Obama did it out of kindness radical noodle Mar 2019 #11

There is so much new info about Wikileaks re: the Russians, I doubt this has anything to do with okaawhatever Mar 2019 #25

Manning is a special sort of stupid. comradebillyboy Mar 2019 #9

Daniel Ellsburg calls Mannning an American hero. jalan48 Mar 2019 #12

I agree with Daniel Ellsburg JonLP24 Mar 2019 #27

I take it that no one now recalls the significance or the content released? Ford_Prefect Mar 2019 #13

+1 JonLP24 Mar 2019 #23

I have no sympathy for her. Obama gave her an opportunity, and she threw it away still_one Mar 2019 #16

what happened to the speedy trial issue on appeal? soryang Mar 2019 #19