Phil Coleman

Chelsea Manning Phil Coleman

CHELSEA MANNING - The Scandalous True Story of an All-American WhistleblowerThe information came as a slow trickle. The whistleblower website WikiLeaks was just four years old, and the media didn't necessarily pay much attention to it. But then it came, the publication of a diplomatic cable on February 18, 2010. It was from the US embassy in Iceland's capitol city, Reykjavik, and detailed information about the country's financial crisis.
Two months later, a Wired report from April 5, 2010, screams with the headline, "Whistleblower Report: Leaked Video Shows U. S. 'Cover up, '" and said WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange called the course of the footage "courageous."
The Army's Criminal Investigative Division arrested the "courageous source" on May 26, 2010, and she was moved from Iraq to Camp Arifjan, Kuwait where she was held until July 6 without being charged. When the charges finally came, they were for violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice because she had transferred classified information to a personal computer and added unauthorized software to a classified computer.
All of the actions violated federal laws about the handling of classified information. Who had access to that volume of information? Why did they do it? Where was the leak coming from?
This is the scandalous true story of Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, one of the most prolific whistleblowers in history.