Bradley Manning Speaks

03-14-2013 • Free Press Publications

Bradley Manning explains why he leaked some government cables. Transcript: I believe that if the general public, especially the American public, had access to the information, this could spark a domestic debate on the role of the military and our foreign policy in general... 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 even to engage in counterterrorism and counterinsurgency operations that ignore the complex dynamics of the people living in the effected environment everyday... Ultimately, I felt that the right thing to do was to release the SigActs... I felt this sense of relief by them having it. I felt I had accomplished something that allowed me to have a clear conscience based upon what I had seen and read about and knew were happening in both Iraq and Afghanistan everyday... The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an aerial weapons