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July 1, 2024 - MyronGainesX
02:00:53
Why Julian Assange Was Freed
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What's up, guys?
Welcome to Fed Reacts today.
We're gonna talking about uh we're gonna be talking about Julian Assange.
We've got a lot to get into, guys.
Let's get into it.
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Today we're going to be talking about...
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Today we're going to be talking about Julian Assange.
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And um yeah, yeah, I think I don't think there's anyone else on YouTube or any of the platforms really that's a former federal agent that actually used to do these types of cases.
And luckily for you guys, I've done espionage cases before.
So this is something that's uh kind of in my wheelhouse, so um, you know, it'll definitely be um interesting.
And you know what?
Here, I'll show y'all some receipts.
Here's one of the espionage cases that I worked on because everyone talks all this shit like, oh yo, you know, do you even blah blah blah.
And it's like nah, bro.
I really was out here.
So uh I think uh um let me see here.
Let's see here.
Boom.
Okay.
Here we go.
This is the case that I worked on.
Let me go ahead and enlarge this.
Let me screen share with you, Ninjas.
Okay.
Just to give you guys a little bit of my background, right?
Why I'm qualified to talk about this, because like a lot of other YouTubers can't do this.
This was a case that I worked on, guys, right here.
Muzaffar Kazi.
This is a public case, so it's out there now.
But um, this is actually one of the first cases I worked on, actually.
Um, but yeah, this is one of the espionage cases I worked way back in the day.
I remember we got the information back in 2013-ish.
Uh the guy was basically shipping uh flight schematics over to uh Iran.
Um, so yeah, he ended up pleading uh sentenced over eight years in prison for attempting to send U.S. military technology to Iran.
So this was a case that I let me see if I can find a criminal complaint on this thing.
Nope.
Let's see.
Let's see.
CFBI did a press release, but this was the HSI case.
HSI case, uh, it was an HSI-led case, but FBI was involved.
And so was um who else was involved, man?
Fuck.
It was uh boom.
So it was ICE HSI, USCON's border protection, LA uh uh U.S. Air Force uh, yep, OSI, yep, and I remember them.
FBI New Jersey, and then DCIS.
There we go.
Yeah.
Defense criminal investigation investigative services.
Uh, but yeah, this is a good case.
This is one that I worked on.
So, yeah, guys, I've done these types of cases before, and I got receipts for y'all ninjas, okay?
So I was really out here.
Let me see if I can find a criminal complaint on this thing.
And then we're gonna get into the um let's see.
Nope.
Maybe it's in here.
That's the guy.
Well, the best looking dude.
Pause.
Uh is this it maybe?
Oh, here we go.
Yep, this is the this is it.
So they originally charged him with this guy.
So when you do a criminal complaint a lot of the times, you just want to get a charge on the individual right away, right?
Um, just to get them in jail.
And they hit him with a very this is an easy charge to prove.
You know, 18 USC 2314, right?
So interstate transportation of stolen property uh of the value of 5,000 or more.
And that was just to get him, you know, arrested because they didn't know what this guy you know was involved in and what he was stealing.
So they just wanted to get him arrested right away.
This was HSI out of Los Angeles, and then the case ended up getting transferred over to uh um Connecticut.
So, so yeah, this is uh, yeah, it was a CPI group.
Okay, so anyway, you guys get the idea, right?
Uh, but this is a case that I worked on that we did back in the day.
Uh all right.
So, besides me talking about that, let's get into today's topic at hand.
Today is today, guys, we're gonna be talking about Julian Assange, okay?
So here he is right here, Australia National.
All right.
Uh Julian Paul Assange, born July 3rd, 1971, is an Australian editor.
His birthday's right on the corner, actually.
Uh Australian editor, publisher, and activist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006.
He came to international attention in 2010 after WikiLeaks published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning, a former United States Army Intelligence Analyst, footage of a U.S. airstrike and Baghdad, U.S. military logs from the Afghanistan and Iraq wars and U.S. diplomatic cables.
You guys probably wonder who the fuck is Chelsea Manning?
This is Chelsea Manning, guys, right here.
Uh where is here we go.
It was originally Bradley Manning, by the way, but uh he transitioned.
Okay.
So we'll just leave it there.
We're on YouTube.
So Chelsea Elizabeth Manning, a born Bradley Edward Manning, uh December 17, 1987, is an American activist and whistleblower.
She's a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by a court martial in July 2013 of violation of the Espionage Act and other offenses after disclosing to WikiLeaks nearly 750,000 classified or unclassified but sensitive military and diplomatic documents.
She was in prison from 2010 until 2017 when her census was commuted by President Barack Obama.
A trans woman, Manning said in 2013, that she had a female gender identity since childhood and wanted to be known as Chelsea Manning.
Now WikiLeaks, guys, right here, is a nonprofit media organization, a publisher of leaked documents.
It is funded by no nations and media partnerships.
It has published classified documents and other media provided by anonymous sources.
It was founded in 2006 by Julian Assange, an Australian editor, publisher, and activist.
Since September 2018, Kristen uh Raphson, I probably butchered that.
I apologize.
Has served as its editor-in-chief.
Its website state that has released more than 10 million documents and associate analysis.
WikiLeaks' most recent publication of original documents was in 2019, and its most recent publication was in 2021.
From never to from November 2022 on numerous documents on the organization's website became inaccessible.
In 2023, Assange said that WikiLeaks is no longer able to publish due to his imprisonment and the effect that the US government surveillance and WikiLeaks funding restrictions were having on potential whistleblowers.
Okay.
So that's a crash course on the main players.
Julian Assange, okay, WikiLeaks, and of course, Chelsea Manning.
Okay.
And this is the trifecta guys that led to Julian Assange getting arrested, right?
So we have a documentary that we're gonna play here, but I'm gonna speed it up a bit so you guys kind of get a background.
Then we're gonna go into what's currently going on with him.
As you guys know, he played guilty to uh one count, and we're gonna go over that here in a bit, but um I want you guys to kind of get a gist of how we got here, okay?
So I got this documentary that we're gonna play.
Hopefully, YouTube doesn't hit us with the uh with the copyright, but we'll see what happens.
We're gonna play this here at um 1.25 speed.
And this is called Julian Assange the Price of Truth.
And this is him being escorted out of the Ecuadorian embassy in 2019 or 2018-ish.
See, he has the full-grown beard and everything.
And look, it's like six of them escorting him out.
That was the British police and arrested Julian.
This is one example of many, many that's his dad.
You guys can see they look strikingly uh similar.
Deliberate torture of joy.
I mean, I felt there was danger.
The only lay decision!
No, I'm all right.
There's people uh protesting on his behalf.
I'm here with you.
The concern for us, Julian's family and friends, is that Julian's not here with us.
Julian Assange.
Many, many millions of people have been for humans of the publication.
Uh, I don't think Assange is let me look here.
Let me double check.
Someone put a bell in the chat.
Let me look here.
Early life.
Uh he was born uh Julian Paul Hawkins on July 3rd, Townsville, Queensland.
To Christine Ann Hawkins, a visual artist and John Shipton, an anti-war activist and builder.
The couple separated before their son was born when Julian was a year uh old.
His mother married Brett Assage, an actor with whom she ran a small theater company and whom Assange regards as his father, choosing Assange's surname.
Christine and Brett Assange divorced around 1979.
Christine then became involved with Leif Maynell, also known as Leif Hamilton, whom Julian Assange later described as a member of the Australian cult called the family.
Okay.
Uh nah, man, I don't think so, guys.
I don't think so.
I do not think so, my friends.
So uh anyway.
Let's get back to it.
We got some quick chats here.
Um, Myron Jr. is back.
Yo, Myron, I was always curious if your parents were mad when you quit your federal job.
Did your dad agree?
Uh yeah, they didn't like it when I quit, guys.
I'll be honest with y'all.
They were like, hey, what are you doing?
You know, because obviously your parents always err on the side of you know safety and security, so they weren't sure if the whole internet thing was gonna work out, but it did.
You know, but that's your parents' job is to be skeptical of things like that.
Uh he don't love you, says, I'm surprised you haven't done Oklahoma bombing.
Those guys were on Ali Akbar time.
Uh I will do Timothy.
Uh, I'll do Timothy McVeigh soon, guys.
Uh, you guys have asked for that one, so don't worry.
It'll it's coming soon.
One example is the uh collectoral murder.
Okay.
This video that you guys are about to see is the famous video, okay, that really put it put the US uh government out there, put the US military, put the intelligence agencies, it put them out there.
Alright, guys, so uh viewer discretion advised.
Pirates and the gunner murder these people.
This is a war.
So 2007.
And yet Julian has to be extradited for reporting a war crime.
Free!
Si Assange est extradite vers les Etats-Unis, alors ça fera peser un poids?
Uh guys, give me a ones if the volume is is uh is good.
It should be good.
Uh I got it turned up really high.
Um let me know.
Audio should be good for the video.
But I mean fuego la libertade de prensa, la libertade accessible, a la información de hacer un periodismo independiente.
I'll drop the rumble link in the chat for you guys in case something happens.
I have a feeling that we might get hit with something.
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If you guys are watching this on Rumble, do me a solid.
Can you guys open up a tab on YouTube?
Let's get this thing up in the algorithm.
As you guys know, um, you know, I split the audience, I wa I do this on Rumble, X, all the platforms.
So obviously I don't have the most viewers on YouTube right now, right?
Because we're obviously diversified over here.
So um do me a favor, guys, open it up on YouTube.
The audio might be better for you guys on YouTube.
Uh open it up on YouTube if you're watching on Rumble, almost a thousand of you guys watching a rumble, open it up on YouTube, like the video.
Let's get this thing up in the algorithm and uh support the channel, please, guys, because YouTube is how we reach new people, and then Rumble is where we keep the people.
You know what I'm saying?
It's a vindictive persecution, which is an attack on press freedom worldwide, and uh it should be fought by all means.
And that's why this case got so important, uh, guys, so much uh attention, guys, is because quite frankly, the US government was trying to criminalize journalism.
We're going to talk about that here in a little bit as well.
We'll be right back.
I'm gonna play this a little bit of a faster speed.
Yes, Angie is here, guys.
You can see she's just uh helping out with some things behind the scenes.
The story of WikiLeaks begins in the heard my dad are watching a soccer game.
Middle of the war in Iraq.
A handful of hackers and a few journalists.
They quickly made the US military's worst nightmare a reality by revealing a classified video to the world.
Let me know if 1.25 is too much for you guys.
Uh I got this at 1.52 uh 1.5 speed right now.
If I need to bring it down to 1.25, let me know.
When I first saw it, actually it didn't have that much impact on because I didn't know where it was when it was.
What was this circumstances?
Who were these people?
It was only by following the path through the thing.
Seeing how relaxed and sort of innocent most of the people were in the video that the tonnage then became uh so outrageous.
The video is complex.
To better decipher it, the founder of WikiLeaks and his team moved to Reykjavik, the capital of Iceland.
They rent a discreet house they call The Bunker.
It's July 2007.
An Apache helicopter flies over a neighborhood in Baghdad.
The onboard camera spots a group of Iraqis on the ground.
Two of them are carrying weapons.
The pilots in radio contact with his base.
Or so they thought they were carrying weapons.
requests permission to file.
1.5 is good?
Okay, thank you guys.
I appreciate it.
Because this is a longer documentary.
We're not going to watch the whole thing, guys.
But I think this is very good so you guys kind of understand.
But this is one of the big videos that he leaked that got the United States pissed.
Once I started discovering more and more detail, this is when it became more emotional.
So to understand, yes, this person was a journalist of lawyers, and this was a driver from Reuters.
Among the victims, WikiLeaks identifies Saeed Shema, a Reuters assistant driver, and photographer, Namir Noor Eldin.
The helicopter pilot obviously sees Namir and Saeed as insurgent and instantly decides that the cameras are weapons.
RPG.
RPG.
This is what that sentence basically for real place.
Come on, fire.
Thank you.
Now, the full video, guys, you can find online, but it's pretty graphic.
they're just like drilling these dudes A few minutes later, the nature of the incident changes.
The mission becomes a war crime.
A black van approaches to assist the wounded.
Inside, there are no competents, just two men with two children.
The pilot makes up an imminent threat and requests permission to fire again.
Come on.
And then they start shooting a car that came to help out, man.
Crazy.
Vlexia VR says, would it be easier if you had someone to take screenshots of Rance and CC in chats in a place so they will be able to read without the regular chats in between?
Uh I do the show by myself on this one, guys, so it's a little bit tough.
Uh Jacross goes, Fred, can we get a topic by topic breakdown of the debate at some point?
Uh yeah, we can.
Uh you guys should watch the episode.
I I broke down the debate pretty well.
Um I mean, if you really want me to get in the weeds, we can, but you uh look at that, right now we killed.
On the ground, corpses everywhere.
The helicopter then captures on film the arrival of a group of soldiers, among them Ethan McCord.
So this is meeting here.
I was one of about six who were dismounted at the time and running up onto the scene.
I had never seen anything like that before.
I saw on the corner and what appeared to have been uh three men.
This is one of the soldiers that was there on the scene.
Um they were completely destroyed by the 30 millimeter rounds.
Claire.
It almost to me didn't seem real.
It it kind of seemed like something that you would see out of a bad horror movie.
The soldier realizes the severity of the incident as he approaches the van.
He locates two wounded people, a four-year-old girl and a ten-year-old boy.
I originally thought that the boy was was deceased.
Um because of the he had a wound to the right side of his head and he wasn't moving.
Um I went back out to the van, um, he made like a labored breath movement.
And um, that's when I started screaming that the boy's alive, the boys alive, and uh I grabbed him, started.
Thank God the kill is alive, man.
Running into the Bradley, which is now three four A4.
At this point, he looks up at me and I look down at him.
Um, and I told him it's gonna be okay.
I have you don't worry, it's gonna be okay.
Um, and his eyes rolled back into his head, and at that point I thought that he possibly had just died in my arms.
After this day, I couldn't justify what I was doing in Iraq again anymore.
Yeah, guys, the Iraq war was a monumental L. Um, you know, you guys have seen me talk about this a million times, whether you guys watch me on Twitter, or you guys watch me on um on Rumble.
I don't talk about this as much on YouTube for obvious reasons, but basically, you guys know why we invaded Iraq.
Okay, you guys know why we invaded Iraq, and it definitely didn't serve US interest for us to be over there.
It made zero sense.
The whole war was pushed by a bunch of neocons, you know, Bill Crystal, Wolfowitz, Pearl.
Okay.
You guys know where I'm going here.
So um we had no business to be in Iraq, and a lot of innocent people died while us being over there.
Um and this this really um exposed that, you know, when people were starting to kind of wake up at this point when this got leaked, that we shouldn't have been there in the first place.
So it just exacerbated the situation.
Um, let's get back to it.
I became um very angry with the war, the death and destruction of innocent people.
That's not what I joined the military for.
On April the 5th, 2010, WikiLeaks publishes the video online.
The public discovers the true horror of this war.
In Baghdad, the families of the victims learn of what happened.
The man driving the van died, but the boy saved by Ethan McCord survived.
That's the kid right there.
He's he's alive.
He survived.
Cheat him.
Huh?
See you.
I'm going to talk to you.
Why don't you go to the house?
Well good afternoon to you.
I am Dylan Radigan.
Some breaking news this afternoon.
A shocking graphic video from Iraq, apparently showing U.S. troops gunning down innocent civilians.
And what made it worse is that, you know, they thought they were combatants, but they weren't.
They had camera equipment.
They were fucking uh, you know, journalists from routers.
You know, so this was a huge L for the United States.
Huge L. And for it to be exposed for the public.
Because guys, remember, the Iraq war was not um internationally like favored, right?
Like when we first went in there, everyone was like, yeah, woo, against terrorism.
And then as we started to kind of not find these weapons of mass destruction, people started asking questions.
Why are we there?
Does Saddama have anything to do with 9-11?
Is this really a war on terror?
What the fuck is going on?
So this footage coming out made it even worse.
Um, Doge says poster says, I think the plea deal with Assange was uh completely political.
They wanted to win over the more dissident left.
Bernie Bros to Biden, that's why I think they waited until now to do this.
Um I will give you my take on why I think they let Bernie uh Bernie, why they let Assange uh go as well.
Don't worry, I'm gonna give you guys I got like a full breakdown of why I think it happened.
I just got done dropping my kids up at school back in April 2010.
Um I went home, grabbed a cup of coffee, sat down on the couch, and turned on the news, and uh there I was running across the screen at my own television um carrying a child.
Um I knew immediately what it was.
Um and it actually felt like a huge slap in the face.
I had spent so much time trying to forget that incident.
Um and then here it was being pushed in my face again.
Ethan McCord was demobilized in 2010.
Since then, he has been an anti-war activist.
The collateral motor release was uh was very important.
Uh the video is iconic, it's symbolic.
It was a stunning testimony of a war crime.
There was no question about uh YouTube stream is down?
Okay.
Yep, I knew that was possible.
It was gonna happen.
Uh we'll just wait for uh for this to come back real quick.
And don't worry, guys.
On the replay, it'll it'll be back.
But honestly, this this um honestly, guys, um that really was the main thing that like got the United States was super um interest interested, right?
Oh yeah.
Um yeah.
Yeah, yeah, no, I know, I know YouTube is down.
The other thing I want to say is that um, and we'll talk about uh Chelsea Manning here in a second.
But what we'll do is we're gonna go back to old Fed Reacts type stuff, okay?
And what I mean by that is we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna um go through some of the documents of this case.
And don't worry, guys.
I think that covers the mostly the main stuff.
Uh the stream went down, I think when uh just now.
But we'll stay on YouTube, we'll stay up on YouTube for a bit longer.
Don't worry about it.
Because I got some documents that we're gonna share anyway.
So we'll be back here on YouTube here in a second.
So uh while we wait for YouTube to come back.
And all my ninjas, guys, open up two tabs.
Okay, do me a solid.
Open up two tabs, open up a YouTube tab and open up a rumble tab.
Okay.
If you're watching on Rumble, open up a YouTube tab for me.
Because that'll help with uh live viewers that we got on YouTube.
And uh, yeah, sucks, guys.
It is what it is.
So now we're don't worry, guys.
We're not suspended.
This the stream's gonna come back.
It always does this.
When you're a pro like me and you uh you react to stuff, you just know that YouTube is gonna take the stream down for a little bit and then it's gonna come back.
So and the interesting part is on the replay, this stream's unavailable thing, it's gonna be gone.
Interestingly enough.
So the stream will be back, don't worry.
Uh while we do that, I'll read some of these shots.
Julian Assange was the reason Hillary Clinton lost the 2016 election, primarily due to exposing Hillary's deleted emails.
Yes, that was a big part of it, my friend.
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Myron always bring in the heat on Sunday night.
Great IRL stream Friday, by the way, too.
Thank you.
Uh, Which by the way, it seems like you guys want us to do more of those, which we will do, don't worry.
Um, we're gonna be doing those streams, um, IRL streams.
I'm thinking like every other Friday, we'll be doing that.
So um every other Friday, we'll probably go ahead and do it.
See, we're back on YouTube now.
So you guys, I told y'all.
We just give it a little like a minute or two and we're back.
Um I will be doing more of those IRL streams probably every Friday, but we got some things that we got planned for you guys on after hours to spice it up for you guys.
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I don't know, bro.
That's a good question.
But I don't know.
Uh let's see here if I missed anything else.
Have you thought about doing an episode on Ruby Ridge, the predecessor to Waco?
We will do it eventually, don't worry.
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So um, so yeah.
So, okay, we're gonna go through Julian Assange's case, guys, okay.
Uh, we're on Pacer, okay, as you guys know.
Pacer is uh where you can find all the federal criminal cases.
I gotta enlarge this for y'all so you can actually like read it because it's this weird, you know, yellow government website.
Um, I'm gonna get my face out the camera for y'all real quick so you guys can actually see what the hell I'm going through here, okay?
Uh give me one sec.
Okay, my ugly mugs out the way.
All right, cool.
So you can see here, Julian Apollo Assange, right?
He was represented by Barry Joel Pollack, okay.
Um, and then here are the accounts that he originally got, right?
Um, conspiracy commit computer intrusion, receive national defense information, obtain and disclose national defense information, uh obtaining national defense information, conspiracy commit computer intrusions, like more accounts, right?
Like just and um, and you end up getting a bunch of them dismissed, right?
On June 26, 2024, which is a part of uh obviously, you know, the plea deal that he got, right?
Um, and so we're gonna go through the case systematically.
So on December 21st, 2017, there was a sealed complaint right here, okay?
Um, and as you guys know what a complaint is, it's a criminal complaint.
Uh, this was filed in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Um, and they charged them, as I told you guys before, it's easier a lot of the times to charge a simple charge just to get the just to get it filed, right?
So um honor about the dates of March 2010 in the county of uh Louden first brought in the Eastern District of Virginia, the defendant violated boom.
18 USC 371.
This is the general conspiracy charge, guys, right?
Um conspiracy access to computer without authorization, exceeding authorized access to obtain classified national defense information in violation of UTUSC 1030, a one blah blah blah blah blah.
Right?
And then you got special agent Megan Brown is the affian on this thing, okay.
And we also got the criminal complaint, my friends.
Here it is, okay.
So I was able to dig this thing up because before when I looked up this case, you couldn't find this thing.
All right.
So here it is, December 21st, 2017, as you guys see, with the case number MJ, boom.
So we're gonna go ahead.
I Megan Brown make this half David in support of a criminal complaint charging defendant Julian P. Assange of violating 18 USC 371, right?
And then we go into paragraph two.
This is what I tell you guys all the time.
This is what I call the I Love Me paragraph, right?
She tells you guys who she is.
She specialized with FBI, okay?
FBI guys typically takes the lead on espionage cases, but there are some situations where other agencies like um HSI, OSI, or any of these other agencies can do it.
So for example, uh Manning, right?
Since she was a uh she was Army, they charged her in the military.
Okay, and we're gonna talk about her military case here in a little bit.
But it was Army CID that arrested her, okay?
Matter of fact, let me see if I can grab the video here.
She was arrested.
I think I have it here somewhere for you, ninjas.
Trying to find it.
Nope.
Okay, was it here, maybe?
Okay.
Anyway, we'll go back.
It's a document.
Now we're gonna we're not gonna read this entire complaint, guys, because it's it's like 20, 30 pages, but uh we'll go through it, okay?
All right, so she talks about her paragraph, her background, etc.
We're not gonna read all that.
You know, she she basically, this paragraph, guys, this the second paragraph.
Anytime you read a criminal complaint, guys, the second paragraph is typically gonna talk about their experience, what they've done, why they're qualified to write this affidavit, et cetera.
Okay.
And then boom, as usual, you guys have read many Camaro complaints with me.
This is based on my personal observations, and this is just to um establish probable cause.
So what we're gonna read in this criminal complaint, guys, aren't all the facts of the investigation, it's just what they need for probable cause, right?
Which is the standard of the United States to affect an arrest.
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So let's get into the probable cause, all right?
So these charges relate to one of the largest compromises of classified information in the history of the United States.
This is true, right?
Um, between and or around January 2010 and May 2010, Chelsea Manning, an intelligence analyst and the U.S. Army downloaded four nearly complete and largely classified databases with approximately 90,000 Afghanistan war-related significant activity reports, 400,000 Iraq war-related significant activity reports, 800 Guantanamo Bay detainee assessments, and 250,000 U.S. State Department cables.
Manning provided these records to WikiLeaks, a website founded and led by the defendant Julian P. Assange.
On its website, WikiLeaks express solicited, expressly solicited classified information for public dissemination.
WikiLeaks publicly released the vast uh majority of the classified records on its website in 2010 and 2011.
Manning has since been tried and convicted by a court martial for her illegal acts in transmitting the official information to WikiLeaks.
I know what you guys are saying.
Well, Myron, hold on one second.
Why isn't Chelsea Manning in this case as well?
Why wasn't she charged?
Well, guys, the reason why she wasn't charged is because she was charged by the court martials, okay?
And we'll go into it real quick right here, okay?
United States v.
Manning.
And there's no public records on this because this is a military case, my friends, okay?
So this was a court martial of a former United States Army private first class, Chelsea Manning.
So she served in Iraq uh since October 2009.
Manning was arrested in May 2010 after Adrian Lamo, a computer hacker in the United States, indirectly informed the Army CID that Manning had acknowledged passing classified material to WikiLeaks.
Manning was ultimately charged with 22 specified offenses, including communicating national defense information to an unauthorized source and most serious of the charges, aiding the enemy.
Other charges included violations of the espionage act of 1917, stealing U.S. government property, and charges under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and charges related to the failure to obey lawful general orders under Article 92 of the Uniform Code of Military Justice.
Manning answered guilty, please to 10 of the 22 specified offenses of February 2013.
Now you guys are wondering, well, what Myra, what do you what do you mean by this?
Like, why wasn't she charged by the FBI like Assange?
Well, she's charged by Army CID, guys.
And Army CID, they have their own special agents, they're their own law enforcement agency, and they typically enforce the law on military personnel.
Okay.
And Army CID can present cases to the United States attorney's office, right, for regular prosecution, like a civilian of a Julian Assange, or they could present cases to what you see here with the court martial, where you can prosecute someone through the military.
Now, what I suspect, the reason why they went and took this in a military angle, is because, number one, she was active duty, I think at the time.
And then number two, the other reason, guys, is because the court martials don't lose.
Anyone that's in the military, you guys already know what it is.
Uh you go to a court martial, you're gonna probably take an L. Okay.
They got a very high conviction rate, okay?
And you don't have the same level of protection as you would uh a citizen, right?
You have to comply a lot more when you're in the military and you get arrested on some on some stuff.
So it's it's a it's a stronger case on their end, right?
Um so luckily for her, she didn't get the aiding the enemy one, okay?
So uh the trial, uh the trial on the 12 remaining charges began on June 13, 2013, and went on to judge uh went to the judge on July 26, 2013.
The findings were rendered on July 30th.
Manning was acquitted of the most serious charge for giving secrets to WikiLeaks in addition to five or six espionage counts.
Um then on 20, uh, and she's free now, guys.
Uh she was sentenced to 35 years of prison, reduction of pay grade and pay grade to E1, forfeiture of all pay allowances, and a dishonorable discharge, which is terrible.
Okay, dishonorable discharge, guys, I would argue is worse than a um it's worse than a felony conviction, I would say.
Okay.
On January 17, 2017, President Barack Obama commuted Manning sentence to a total of seven years confinement.
Manning was released on May 17, 2017.
Um, on May 31st, 2018, the U.S. Army Court of Criminal Appeals upheld Manning's conviction violating the Espionage Act of 1917.
So obviously, right?
Obama, probably under some pressure, said, hey, look, she's a whistleblower, she did the right thing.
She went ahead and pro, you know, provided this information.
So here's the thing, man.
I think Assange is fine because he's a journalist.
Um her, though, I don't know.
It's questionable because the information that she leaked guys put a lot of um classified information out there and compromised some military operations, right?
And as someone who has a clearance, you take an oath, you're held to a higher standard than a citizen.
A journalist, they're protected.
As a military, um, military personnel, you don't have the same level of protection.
Um, I think that's a big reason why I don't foresee them per uh pardoning um Edward Snowden, who's also in a very similar boat.
We broke down the Edward Snowden case as well, guys, for some of you guys that are wondering.
Um, but when you're a government official, guys, and you have a clearance, um, you're just held to a higher standard, unfortunately, right?
And they can really fuck you over.
So when Manning, right, she did get a break by Obama commuting her sentence, but uh I don't think she'll ever get um the appeal, and she's probably gonna stay with that dishonorable discharge.
Okay.
So um, so yeah.
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That's actually, yeah, that's one of my good quotes right there, my friend.
So, all right, let's go back to the uh to the document.
Right?
So now you guys know that she was charged by the military.
All right.
And I'll keep my ugly mug here while we break down this document.
All right.
The charges of criminal could play focused on specific illegal agreement that Assange and Manning reached in furtherance of Manning's illegal disclosure of fortified information.
Sorry, of close classified information.
As explained below, investigators have recovered internet chats between Assange and Manning from March 2010.
The chats reflect that on March 8th, 2010, Assange agreed to assist Manning in cracking a password stored on the United States Department of Defense Computers, DOD, connected to the classified secret internet protocol router network CIPRNET, which by the way, guys, Assange is a talented hacker.
Okay, he is a talented hacker himself.
Manny who had access to computers in connection with her duties as an intelligence analyst, was using the computers to download classified records to transmit to WikiLeaks.
Cracking the password would have allowed Manning to log into the computers under username that did not belong to her.
Such a deceptive measure would have made it more difficult for investigators to determine the source of the legal disclosures.
While it remains unknown whether Manning and Assange were successful in cracking the password, a follow-up message from Assange to Manning on March 2010, March 10, 2010, reflects that Assange was actively trying to correct the password pursuant to their agreement.
Okay.
So, okay, let's go ahead and get into the backgrounds, right?
Uh uh defendant Julian P. Assange and WikiLeaks, all right.
Assange, a citizen of Australia, created the website WikiLeaks in 2006 to release on internet otherwise unavailable documents.
WikiLeaks website solicited uh submissions of classified, censored or otherwise restricted information.
Although associates and volunteers Work for WikiLeaks in various capacities.
WikiLeaks was closely identified with Assange himself.
As reported in an article published in Wired magazine in or around September 2010, Assange stated, I am the heart and soul of this organization.
Its founder, philosopher, spokesperson, original coder, organizer, financer, and all the rest.
Okay, well, that was kind of self-snitching.
Stooping.
As stated by Assange in January 2010, an interview during the 26th Chaos Communication Congress, WikiLeaks had a full-time staff of five and 800 occasional helpers.
Assange has also stated that he made the final decision as to whether a particular document submitted to WikiLeaks was legitimate.
And that right there, my friends.
Stooping is how they were able to pin it on him.
Because they're like, look, you're the boss, right?
Now they're going to get into co-conspirator.
Um, and uh, and then obviously this is this is they need to put this in here just because he never possessed a clearance, security clearance or need to know is prohibited from receiving classified information of the United States.
They have to put that in there because anytime you do a classified information, you need to have the proper clearance and you need to have a need to know according to the U.S. government.
All right.
Co-conspirator Chelsea Manning, United States citizen established uh enlisted in the U.S. Army in October 2007, subsequently attended the U.S. Army Intelligence Analyst course at Fort Uh Hachua, Arizona on April 7th, 2008.
Manning signed a classified information non-disclosure agreement right here.
This is where they fucked her.
Okay.
That's where they pretty much.
In doing so, manager Manning acknowledged being advised that unauthorized disclosure or retention or negligent handling of classified information could cause damage or irreparable injuries to the United States or could be used to advantage by a foreign nation.
Okay.
And then she got uh, oh shit, she had a top secret SCI clearance.
Okay, she got that in 2009.
In doing so, Manning acknowledged that she would be granted access to SCI material, which involves or derives from intelligence sources or methods that are classified or in the process of being classified.
Okay, so guys, SCI is one of the highest clearances you can get in the U.S. government.
When I was on a job, I had a top secret.
I didn't have a top secret SCI at a top secret.
Um an SCI is a level above that.
Um deal stands for um secret compartmentalized information.
Okay.
So this kind of goes into the different um clearances, right?
So we're we'll move uh.
So she had uh access to uh classified information networks in Iraq.
We'll move forward from there.
Right.
Okay, so let's get into some of the facts of the case, right?
According to Man, she began helping WikiLeaks soon after WikiLeaks publicly released messages from the September 11, 2011 attacks on November 25th, 2009.
As examples in the following two sections demonstrate Manning's transmitted a large amount of classified information to WeekLeaks prior to March 2010, which was then, which was when she formed the agreement with Assange that is the subject of this complaint.
All right.
So classified significant activity reports related to Iraq and Afghanistan war.
So we're gonna get into the first thing that she the first stuff that she started uh going into.
So we know who Assange is, we know who she is, we know what topic clearance that she had, and we know uh when she started working with him, right?
During her court martial proceedings, Manning has admitted that prior to March 2010, she provided WikiLeaks with classified significant activity reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, Iraq wars, and Afghanistan war reports, respectively.
According to Manning, she downloaded the Iraq War reports and Afghanistan War reports from the relevant C D I N E databases in late December 2009 and early January 2010, and initially saved the records on a CDRW that she kept in her SCIF.
Okay.
So uh she basically had a CD that she downloaded all the stuff on.
This is 2007, guys, okay, 2010-ish.
You know, burning CDs was a thing.
I know you fucking Gen Zers are looking at me like, what the hell?
Who burned CDs anymore?
Yes, yes, it was on its way out at that point, but people were still using CD ROMs at that point, okay.
Um and a skiff room, right?
Guys, skiff.
It says basically a room where you deal with classified information, right?
A sensitive compartmented information facility, SCIF, United States military, national security, national defense, and intelligence parlance is an enclosed area within a building that is used to process sensitive, compartmented uh information, types of uh classified information, right?
So I've been in a skiff before.
You can't bring your phone in there.
Uh all the computers are, you know, deal with classified information, et cetera.
You know, you can't go in there and record anything.
So, yeah.
So she was burning this stuff in the skiff room on a CD, right?
Which you can't do.
Manning admitted that she took the CDs out of the SCIF and copied the data from the CDs onto her personal laptop.
That is a L, my friend.
Um Manning stated that she transferred the data from her laptop to a secure digital memory card, which she took with her SD card when she went uh on to leave later on.
Well, she went on leave later in January 2010.
So she took some vacation time, right?
Investigators later recovered the SD card that Manning used to transport the Iraq wars and Afghanistan war reports.
Forensic analysis of the SD card revealed that it contained the CIDNE databases for Iraq, 391,000 records, and Afghanistan 91,000 records plus.
The SD card also contained the read me text file, which contained the following message.
Which Iraq and Afghanistan has significant activities between 000 1, blah, blah, blah.
Department of Defense Combined Information Data Exchange is already sanitized of any source identifying information.
You might need to sit on this information perhaps 90, 180 days to figure out how to best release such a large amount of data and to protect the sources, possibly one of the most more significant documents of our time removing the fog of war and revealing the true nature of 21st century asymmetric warfare.
Have a good day.
So that's what Manning probably put in the CD there, right?
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Manning and weekly's had reason to believe that the public disclosure of the Afghanistan war reports and Iraq war reports would cause injury to the United States, right?
So obviously she knew this, right?
She put it right here.
Literally put it right here.
This is possibly some of the most significant documents of our time, right?
So she kind of sniffs on herself by doing that.
Okay.
uh so let's keep going All right, so let's move a little bit forward here.
In addition, some of the Afghanistan war reports included details reports of IED attacks on United States and College Force in Afghanistan.
Then we could use these reports to plan future IED attacks because they described IED techniques, devices, and explosives, and revealed the countermeasures used by United States and Coalition Force against IED attacks and potential limitations to those countermeasures.
Oh Lord.
So on May 2nd, 2011, United States government officials raided a compound of Osama Biladen.
During the raid, they collected a number of digital media, which included, among other things, a letter from Bin Laden to another member of the terrorist organization, Al Qaeda, in which bin Laden requested that the member gather the DOT material posted to WikiLeaks and a letter from that member of Al-Qaeda to bin Laden with information about the Afghanistan war reports released by WikiLeaks.
Oh man.
So y'all can see why they were pissed, right?
So these WikiLeaks documents, right?
Number one, Bin Lada got his hand on them, right?
And it gave these documents, gave countermeasures that the United States was using to combat against IEDs.
As you guys know, IEDs was the leading killer of soldiers in 2003, or well, when the war started, when the war started in 2003.
It was a leading killer, one of the leading killers.
So obviously, this is a big problem, right?
Big security breach there.
And you know, who knows, guys?
This could have led to soldiers getting killed.
I reviewed a number of the Afghanist war reports and Iraq I war reports that WikiLeaks released.
The reports that I reviewed contains classification markings reflecting they were classified as secrets.
Okay.
All right.
So now we're going to get into the Iceland documents.
Okay.
As further example, Manning also provided WikiLeaks with a number of classified documents relating to Iceland prior to March 2010.
Oh shit, man.
Them Europeans are about to get exposed.
Here we go.
According to Manning, she accessed the NCD portal on February 14th, 2010, and found a cable entitled Uh 10 Reikjavik 13, which addressed an Icelandic issue known as Ice Cave.
Iceave.
Manning admitted that she burned information on it to a CD on February 15, 2010, took it to her personal housing unit, saved the document to her personal laptop, and then uploaded it to WikiLeaks.
WikiLeaks released this I save cable on its website on or about February 18, 2010.
I reviewed the document that WikiLeaks released on its website.
It contained clear markings reflecting it was classified as confidential.
Okay?
And real quick, just so because so we make sure that we have you guys understand this stuff.
Classified documents ranking.
Right.
So you got different levels, right?
You got confidential, secret, top secret, and then top secret SCI, right?
And then you get into like White Hat and all this other shit.
But those are the three main ones, right?
But regardless, all this stuff is considered you need a you need to need to know in the clearance for it, right?
That suggests that the version of the uh ISAF cable that Manning translated weekly is clear, fuck that it was classified.
In addition, on February 14, 2010, Manning using IP1 identified to her, viewed the Intellipedia website for Iceland from this website.
Manning clicked on links to and viewed three files entiting Sigdur.
Okay.
A forensic examination of Manning's personal laptop computer showed that a forensic device was inserted into her machine.
The volume name of the CD indicated the CD was burned on February 15, 2010.
The file names Johnson.
Let's see here.
What was in here?
Okay.
On March 29th, 2010, WikiLeaks posted on his website, classified U.S. State Department biographies of three Icelandic officials.
Oh shit.
Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna Sigator, Icelandic Minister of Foreign Affairs and External Trade, User.
Okay, I'm gonna I'm just gonna say OS.
An Islandic ambassador to the United States, Albert Johnson.
I've reviewed the three biographies released by WikiLeaks.
They contain clear marks indicated that they were classified as confidential.
So she leaked information at the American that we had on Icelandic officials.
Oh Marion.
Thus, as examples in these two sections demonstrate, Manning provided hundreds of thousands of classified documents of WikiLeaks prior to uh March 2010.
Weekly's received and published the classified documents despite their clear marks indicating that they were classified.
So they got Icelandic Prime Minister Johanna, what's her name?
Sigadur Tor.
Let's look this woman up real quick.
Let's see.
She was snitching on her, man.
Oh no.
Johanna Sigator.
I I know I'm spelling this wrong, but whatever.
Bruh.
Hold on.
Sig.
Boom.
Bruh.
Why is this?
Oh, it's because all this other crap was in there.
My bad, guys.
Here she is.
This is Icelandic politician.
And she was started the prime minister from 2009 and 2013.
That's not good.
We probably had some classified stuff on her that they want to know.
So let's see if it has anything here about her stuff that was leaked.
No.
Okay.
All right.
Let's get back into the complaint.
All right, Manning's chats with Assange.
Okay, so this is them talking to each other.
This is probably what jammed her up a lot too.
A person assigned a name with the initials NF held a series of online chat conversations with Manning in which the pair discussed providing classified documents to WikiLeaks under protection of Manning's identity as a source of documents.
According to the dates on the chats, they occurred between March 5th and March 18, 2010 during the chat conversation.
Manning used the D Alias Nobody on the account.
These chats took place on the Jabber chat server.
Jabber is used for real-time instant messaging.
Manning and NF use a jabber chat service hosted at Jabber.
It's used for uh it's a commonly used acronym for the Berlin-based Chaos Computer Club, which according to accounts on the internet, Assange had frequented.
Okay.
At her court martial proceeding, Manning stated that she engaged in conversations often with NF, sometimes as long as an hour or more.
Forensic analysis showed that Manning deleted or removed the NF chat logs from her laptop.
Nevertheless, investigators have been able to recover several portions of the chats between Manning and NF, and that's Assange, right?
So they know that this was Assange.
At her court martial Manning claimed that she believed the individual with whom she was chatting was likely Mr. Julian Assange, Mr. Daniel Schmidt, or proxy representative Mr. Assange and Schmidt.
As summarized below, however, the evidence demonstrated that Assange was the NF who communicated with Manning in March 2010 chats.
Specific information provided by NF in the March 2010 chats indicates NF was Assange.
For example, when chatting with Manning on March 5th, 2010, NF confided that he likes like debates and that he just finished one on the IMMI and crushed some wretch from the journalist unit.
And have told Manning that the debate was very satisfying and that the husband of the wretch had exposed a source and IT consultants who had given NF 10 gigabytes of banking documents.
I'm MI refers to the Icelandic modern media initiative, a legislative proposal of considerable public interest in Icelandic in Iceland at the time.
Okay, so I guess this is how they were able to link them through that.
Alright.
So basically, they this is how they were able to identify NF as Assange.
Right?
And they go into detail.
And then the nature of their chats, we can skip that.
That.
Okay, JTF Gitmo documents.
Oh man.
Okay.
So this is Guantanamo Bay.
We're gonna need to give some good stuff right now.
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So let's see here.
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At a court martial proceeding, Manning admitted that she provided WikiLeaks with joint task force Guantanamo, detainee assessment briefs in early March 2010.
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So it's like fucking just giving free value, give uh a bunch of value, you know, doing Zoom calls all that shit.
Um in fact, attachment A reflects discussion between Manning and Assange about the value of these documents in Manning's transmission to them to Assange.
So Manning knew, again, knowledge that what she was transmitting, she shouldn't have been transmitting.
On March 7th, 2010, Manning asked Assange how valuable how valuable are JTF Gitmo detention memos containing summaries, background info, capture info, etc.
Assange replied, time period?
Manning answered 2002 to 2008.
Assange responded quite valuable to the lay uh lawyers of these guys who are trying to get them out, where those memos suggest their innocence, bad procedure, also valuable to merge into general history politically.
Gitmo is mostly over, though.
Manning has admitted that after this discussion, she decided to download the dabs.
On March 8th, 2010, Manning told Assange, I'm sending one last archive of interesting stuff.
Should be in the X folder at some point in the next 24 hours.
Assange replied, okay, great.
Manning added, you'll need to figure out what to do with it all.
Holy.
So she knew she was gonna send a bunch of shit.
Later that day, Manning wrote to Assange, anyway.
I'm throwing everything I got on JTF Gitmo at you now.
Should take a while to get up, though.
Summary history, health conditions, reasons for retaining or transfer of nearly every detainee.
95%.
Holy.
And for some of you guys that are wondering, real fast, because I like to make sure That we educate everybody, and you guys know exactly what we're talking about here.
We're gonna go over what is Guantanamo Bay, okay.
Guantanamo Bay detention camp, okay, is United States military prison within the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, also referred to as Gitmo on the coast of the Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.
As of June 2024, of the 779 people detained there since January 2002 when the military prison first opened after the September 11th attacks, 740 had been transferred elsewhere, 30 remained there, and nine had died while in custody.
The camp was established by U.S. President George W. Bush administration in 2002 during the war on terror following the September 11, 2001 attacks.
Indefinite detention without trial led the operation of this camp to be considered a major breach of human rights by Amnesty International and a violation of the due process clause of the Fifth and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution by the Center for Constitutional Rights.
There were also testimonies of abuse and torture of prisoners.
So as you guys could see, of course, Assange is gonna want ahead, go want to go ahead and get this stuff because Guantanamo Bebe is something that's extremely controversial.
Bush's successor, U.S. President Barack Obama promised, and I remember him campaigning on this back in 2008 when I was in fucking high school, by the way, that he promised he would close the camp in 2010, but made uh but met strong bipartisan opposition from the U.S. Congress, which passed laws to prohibit detainees from Guantanamo Bay being transferred to the United States for any reason, including imprisonment or medical care during the Obama administration.
The number of inmates was reduced from about 250 to 41.
In January 2018, US uh President Donald Trump signed an executive order to keep the decision camp open indefinitely.
In May 2018, Trump administration repatriated a prisoner to Saudi Arabia.
Probably a bunch of diplomatic stuff there.
Uh let's see here.
Um we're gonna go back to the doc to the uh complaint.
Assange replied, okay, great.
Okay.
Okay.
Assange inquired if the information, including initial medical evaluation to exit evaluation.
Also on March 8, 2010, Manning updated Assange about the ongoing upload, stating that the upload is at about 36%.
Assange asked for an ETA estimated time of arrival, to which Manning responded 11 to 12 hours.
Hey, guys, this is 2010, okay?
The technology back then wasn't as good as it is now, right?
Uh, guessing since it's been going for six already, Assange asked, how many MB?
Manning replied, about 440 megabytes and a lot of scanned PDFs.
Two days later, on March 10, 20, uh 2010, Assange reported Manning.
There's a username in the Gitmo docs and asked, I assume I should filter it out.
Manning stated that any username should probably be filtered, period.
Manning didn't recognize, but at the same time, there's a gazine of them.
Later in the chat on March 10, 20 uh 2010, Manning asked, anything useful in there?
Assange replied, no time, but have someone on it.
Assange then followed up that there surely will be, and that these sorts of things always uh motivating to other sources are always motivating to other sources too.
Assange noted that the disclosure provided inspiration for other leakers because Gitmo equal bad, leakers enemy of Gitmo, leakers equal good.
Weekly Leaks ultimately released the JTF Gitmo dabs starting in April of 2011.
Damn, so it took them almost a year to go through the documents, guys.
That just goes to tell you guys like how much they they uh they had.
Took them goddamn a year to fucking put it up, right?
By August 2011, it released 765 JTF Gitmo dabs.
As General Robert Carr testified during Manny's court martial, um, the release of the dabs caused problems for the United States' efforts to move detainees out of Guantanamo Bay to other countries.
According to General Carr, at the time of the release of the dabs, the Department of State was negotiating with foreign governments regarding the transfer of the detainees.
They're related to the classified dabs threatened to conflict with those negotiations.
Oh shit.
Oh man.
Because they probably, because you know, you want to know why it messed up negotiations?
Because I guarantee United States lied about some shit.
And then that stuff proved what they might have been suspecting, these other countries that were trying to uh do negotiations from the United States.
So put the United States in a very weak position from a negotiation and diplomatic standpoint.
I reviewed a number of the gym uh Gitmo dabs that WikiLeaks released.
They contained clear marks indicating that they're classified as secrets.
Assange encourages Manny to continue searching for documents.
So this is him telling her, hey, we need more shit.
Uh Manning and Assange discussed concealing source of documents.
We can skip that.
Assange knowledge that meeting was in the uh that Manning was in the U.S. armed force in Iraq, so he knew.
Let's see here.
Um background of password hashes.
Manning and Assange's agreement to crack the computer password to access classified national security information.
Uh, yeah, this this this kind of put him in a in uh in a bad spot too, because at that point he went from journalists to co-conspirator.
Right?
It's one thing if the military official like leaks information to you, but if you're like actively like, hey, let me help you crack it, then that's where you start to get into trouble, right?
And I think that's a big reason why the US had uh a heart on forgetting this guy as well.
Let's see, let's keep going here.
Agreement to crack the password.
They go into the details of how they cracked it.
Uh more of the password stuff.
Assange fleece from justice.
Okay.
On May 27, 2010, based on information provided by US two, Army investigators in Iraq took Manning into military custody at FOB Hammer.
Manning was subsequently charged with a variety of criminal offenses in a military court martial uh related to her disclosures to WikiLeaks, including charges alleging unlawful transmission of Nazi defense information in violation of 18 USC 793.
That's the espionage at guys.
Okay.
Uh let's see here if we got May 27th.
Uh May 27, 2010.
Let's see if we can go ahead and get the uh the thing on it.
Nope.
Chelsea.
Chelsea Manning.
Arrested.
Tonight, Chelsea Manning, the Army whistleblower convicted of leaking.
And that was back when it was Bradley Morning Manning.
So when he got arrested.
Classified military documents to WikiLeaks is free from prison.
Posting photos of her first steps and Neil Pizza, saying whatever is ahead of me is far more important than the past.
I'm figuring things out right now, which is exciting, awkward, fun, and all new for me.
Manning served just seven years of a 35-year sentence.
President Obama commuting the rest is one of his final acts in office, saying 35 years was disproportionate to what others convicted of similar crimes have received.
I feel very comfortable that uh justice has been served.
Among the most explosive of the nearly 750,000 files and cables leaked by Manning.
This video.
That was the big one.
The US Army helicopter attack in Iraq that killed 11 people, including two journalists.
And sensitive State Department cables, the government says endangered informants working overseas.
President And definitely mess with uh with Hillary too.
Trump has called Manning a traitor who should have never been released.
Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, came out as transly Manning, came out as transgender the day after sentencing.
Trying to commit suicide twice behind bars and went on a hunger strike to protest her treatment.
Tonight, a free woman, she is appealing her conviction and says she looks forward to starting her new life.
Blake McCoy, NBC News.
Thank you.
Let's see.
Julian Assange joins me now live from his safe room in the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
I'm also joined here in studio by his lawyer.
And just so you guys know, so what ended up happening was Julian Assange, actually, you know what?
Julian Assange joins me now live from his safe room in the Ecuadorian embassy.
In London, I'm also joined here in studio by his lawyer.
I watched the video on this.
uh, Okay.
So we're gonna go through his timeline here.
This is a quick little summary here.
It's only about three minutes.
Okay, so you guys know.
We went over some of the facts, but we're gonna go back to the complaint here in a second.
So 2006, Assange forms WikiLeaks in Australia and begins publishing classified and other sensitive material.
Bam.
April 20th to July 2010.
WikiLeaks began releasing hundreds of thousands of classified documents related to the U.S. wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, which you guys saw in intimate detail what he released, thanks to Manning giving him those documents, which we read through in the criminal complaint, which goes into more detail.
stuff with secret confidential top secret etc All came for Manning.
The documents were provided by Army Intelligence Analyst Chelsea Manning, then known as Bradley Manning.
August 2010.
Prosecutors in Sweden announced that an arrest warrant has been issued for Assange after two women accused him of grape.
LOL.
We all know that that wasn't true.
But Assange denied the charges, right?
Because his claim was that it was uh consensual sex.
But he knew that the real reason they they they had these charges was because if he went if he went over there to Sweden, they would have definitely sent him over to the United States.
So Assange, he surrendered to the police in London in response to the Swedish arrest warrant.
He's released on bail pending an extradition hearing.
Now he knows at this time, guys, that there's a good chance that he's gonna get indicted in the United States.
So British magistrate court orders Assange to be extradited to Sweden, Sweden.
Assange appeals the ruling because he didn't want to go to Sweden because he knew what would happen.
Music.
Alright.
So June 2012, Assange takes refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy in London and asked for political asylum after his appeal efforts are unsuccessful.
Alright, so he went into the he literally said, Hey, I'm claiming asylum, you guys need to protect me, man, because I'm a journalist.
If I go to Sweden, I guarantee they're going to turn me over to the Americans.
*music*
And obviously, we know, right, off the criminal complaint.
Uh this is 20 2017.
So he knew he was gonna get arrested, he was gonna get indicted at some point.
But he didn't get indicted yet.
Right?
Yeah, because it's what he gets a political asylum in the embassy in August.
And then he lived there, guys, for years.
So Swedish authorities drop uh the grape and uh grape charges against Assange, his attorney, per se means to cause the decision a total victory.
Yeah, because we knew it was Cap bro.
We knew he wasn't fucking, we knew it was bullshit.
Because Assange was very uh paranoid during this time, guys.
Even though he hadn't been charged yet, he knew at some point that America was gonna come knocking.
Right.
So British authorities, so April 2019, British authorities arrest Assange, that's with the from the videos I showed you guys before, uh, at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, and he is sentenced to 50 weeks in prison for skipping bail.
Now you got I know you guys were wondering, like, yo, what the fuck happened?
What ended up happening, guys, is a new president came in, and he basically said, yo, we're gonna suspend the uh the political asylum.
So they let the Brits come in and arrest them.
So they let the Brits come in and arrest them.
Oh, just so you guys know, while he was there, they spied on him.
Okay.
While he was there the whole time, right?
I'll play a little bit of this documentary because they're gonna start bitching on YouTube again.
Right?
The Assange's espionage begins in December 2017.
And they just were recording him, you know, all over the place.
meeting with his lawyer, he's eating food while he's exercising.
That was one of his lawyers.
This dude speaks Spanish, he's one of his lawyers out of Spain.
International lawyer.
So this new president that came into power ended up rescinding the political asylum for uh uh for Assange.
Julian, the su ambito mas intimo.
So they were recording him.
Look, he's just chilling and shit.
They got all this on footage, man.
They were uh, And when he was meeting with his lawyers and all of his guests.
couldn't go outside at all, guys, because he knew if he went outside at any time, the British police would arrest him.
...de los abogados de la defensa, que pasan a ser objetivo también, para saber qué hacen, qué hacemos, qué opinamos, cuáles...
And it was the intelligence agencies that were recording him.
They even put a camera in the girls' bathroom, guys.
Fucking wild.
He was there for five years, guy.
No, seven years, guys.
From 2012 to 2019.
He was there for seven years.
He didn't leave that embassy.
Fucking crazy, man.
...24 hours a day.
On the job, a small Spanish security company, UC Global.
So yeah.
So let's go ahead and go into Assange's thoughts on Manning.
Oh, you're Barry Park.
We're less than 24 hours from finding out Manning's fate, uh, Julian.
You are, of course, somewhat confined, saying as you are in the embassy, but you're not in jail, which is where Manning may find himself living out the rest of his life.
Do you feel like that's a good thing?
So this is right when Manning was about to get sentenced.
YouTube is down again?
I'm not going to do that.
No, it's not.
Or is it?
Oh, hold on.
Hold on, let me look.
It is down.
Bro, what the hell?
It's literally had it for like two minutes.
It's fine.
I just won't use that documentary again.
Don't worry about it, guys.
We'll be back here in a second.
I'll read some of these chats.
Uh YouTube is whack.
Alright, let me see here.
Yeah, I was just reacting too.
I didn't even really play that much of it.
Uh let's see here.
We'll play the uh the CNN video here.
So we're gonna get Manning's uh sorry, Assange's thoughts on uh Manning.
Any sense of responsibility, any sense of guilt.
What are your feelings on the eve of this verdict?
Well, look, as the publisher uh involved in this case, uh there's no doubt that our publishing activities uh are connected in some way uh to Bradley Manning's fate.
That's provided the embarrassment that the US government uh is working against.
But first let's contextualize.
Uh we heard lots of spin back in 2011, 2012, uh, with people uh from Congress like Peter T. King uh placing bills for all our staff.
Uh and this is right before Manning gets uh before Manning got charged.
As you guys know, they got uh when were they sentenced?
When was he sentenced uh so sometime in like 27 uh 2013 ish, he got sentenced.
So this was posted when July 29th, 2013.
Okay.
To be renditioned, declared enemy combatants before the Congress.
And at that time there were accusations that the material that we had published might in some uh sense uh lead to people coming to those have all been false.
Uh there's been no accusation uh in this entire case uh that any person has come to harm uh as a result uh of any of our publications which are alleged to be uh derived from Bradley Manning.
In fact, they're quite the converse.
Uh there's um I mean it's the international reports that uh there's an echo you said, guys.
There shouldn't be no echo.
Uh it's overthrow by the people uh directly triggered uh by these sorts of publications.
And simply uh similarly there's a wide range uh of investigations and prosecutions uh of individuals uh for torture uh resignations of um different figures in various places in the world uh as a result of corruption.
Do you think Julian do you this information?
Do you think there's The list of accomplishments, the Arab Spring and the other things you've talked about, do you think that is ultimately worth potentially the rest of this young man's life?
Well, it's it's not my place to weigh that up.
Obviously, that's something that Bradley Manning uh has to weigh up.
But the alleged statements that he made.
Uh yeah, he was willing to take that risk uh from his late statements because he believes the uh apparently the result uh is so important.
And we call those types of people that are willing to risk not be a matter, but to risk being a matter.
And that's Army CID guys right there.
So let's go back to the um complaint, right?
So um July 30th, 2013, Manning was convicted of the most most of these charges, including unlawful gathering of transmission of national defense information, uh computer intrusion, and theft of government property.
They were acquitted of aiding the enemy.
Um and then, meanwhile, beginning as early as November 2010 and as of late 2017, Media Islands reported that the Department of Justice was investigating charges against WikiLeaks or Assange in connection with the disclosures by Manning.
On November 20, 2010, in connection with the unrelated charges of Sweden, an international arrest warrant was issued against Assange, which we I talked to you guys about before.
Uh Supreme Court determined that Sweden's extradition had been fully lawfully made in the UK, had 10 days to take Assange to Sweden.
Uh instead of appealing to the European Court of Human Rights in June 2012, Assange fled to the Ecuadorian embassy in London.
Ecuador formally granted Assange's diplomatic asylum on August 16, 2010, citing his well-founded fears of political prosecution, persecution, and the possibility of death penalty, were he sent to the United States.
So he knew back then, right, that there was probably a criminal case against him in the United States.
Specifically, Assange feared that if he were to be sent to the USA, he might be prosecuted, perhaps be executed by a military court in regard to his involvement in the release of stolen and leaked American documents and his crimes in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Uh, which is you guys know, treason carries the um the death penalty in the United States, right?
Uh Assange has made numerous comments reflecting that he took refuge in the accordant Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition and charge of the United States.
For example, in 2013, a WikiLeaks website posted an affidavit by Assange concerning alleged monitoring of his activities and search and seizure of his property.
In this affidavit, uh Assange acknowledged that he was granted asylum after a formal assessment by the government of Ecuador in relation to the current and future risk of persecution and cruel, inhumane, inhuman and degrading treatment of the United States in response to my publishing activities and my political opinions.
So May 19, 2017, in response to Sweden's decision to discontinue his investigation regarding suspected grape by Julian, Assange publicly stated, while today it was an important victory and an important vindication, the road is far from over.
The war, the proper war, is just commenting.
something Right?
Uh now the United States CIA director Pompeo.
Now, guys, remember, fast forward to 2017, Trump's in office now.
Okay, Obama's no longer in office.
Uh and the U.S. Attorney General have said that I and other WikiLeaks staff have no rights.
We have no first amendment rights, and my arrest and the arrest of our staff is a priority.
The UK refuses to confirm or deny at this stage whether U.S. extradition warrant is already in the UK territory.
So this is a dialogue that we want to happen.
Similarly, in with the uh with the United States, there have been extremely threatening remarks made.
I am uh always happy to engage in a dialogue with the Department of Justice about what occurred.
Right.
So this is a conclusion of doc uh uh afidavid went over everything.
So signed it December 21st, right?
Then he gets indicted, right?
Uh this was the first indictment, if I'm not mistaken, right?
So right here.
We're back on YouTube, Ninjas.
I heard we back.
Okay, cool.
So um, yeah, and don't worry, guys.
When you watch this on the playback on YouTube, it'll show.
So here's the indictment, right?
Uh conspiracy to commit.
Uh computer intrusion.
Right?
So he gets indicted, and you guys know an indictment is a formal charge, right?
And they indicted him here.
Then they hit him with the superseding indictment later on, right?
Three years later.
This is where they hit him with the real charges.
18 UFC 793, conspiracy to obtain and disclose national defense information, conspiracy, you know, more espionage charges.
All these 18 USC 793 charges you guys see are all um under the Espionage Act.
Okay.
Then, you guys can see here, motion to dismiss.
On March 6, 2018, the defendant was indicted by a federal grand jury uh in this district on one count uh on May 23 uh 23rd, 2019, the defendant was indicted on a superseding indictment by a grand jury district and on 18 counts.
And then on June 24, 2020, the defendant was indicted in a second superseding indictment by a grand jury in this district on 18 counts.
So that's what I showed you guys before.
On June 26, 2024, the defendant pleaded guilty to a criminal information in U.S. District Court for the Northern Mariana Islands in case number uh 124 CR, blah, blah, blah.
Pursuant to the plea agreement in that case, which is attached to this motion, as example one, the government moves to dismiss the indictment filed on March 6, 2018, et cetera, right?
Um, and here is the plea agreement, guys.
Here it is right here, right?
And he did this uh for the Northern Mariana Islands.
This was in Saipan, aka Guam, okay.
And here's a plea agreement.
Let's go ahead and enlarge this bad boy for y'all so you guys can see what the hell's going on here.
So here's the plea agreement, right?
I don't think anyone else has broken this down.
Right?
So we went over the criminal complaint.
We went over the multiple indictments.
He had one indictment and two superseding indictments, and then the government finally moved to get it dismissed.
So here's the plea agreement, right?
And here's the information that he pled guilty to.
Uh, here's the criminal information, right?
So basically, this is what ended up happening, okay?
So let me explain this to you guys.
So first, he gets hit with a criminal complaint, okay?
And a criminal complaint, as you guys know, is an affidavit written by a special agent from a law enforcement agency that outlines all the facts, just like I went over here with you guys, right?
In this case, it was special agent Megan Brown from the FBI, right?
It outlines all the facts, and then they get an arrest warrant.
They get that arrest warrant and they go pick the person up.
Now, what that said, Assange was an ex was in the uh the UK at this point, right?
And they held him there for five years.
He gets arrested in 2019, he didn't get released until recently, right?
Because they were trying to extradite him from the United States, or excuse me, they were trying to extradite him from the United Kingdom to the United States, right?
And I'm gonna talk about the extradition process here in a little bit.
Then, while he was in jail in UK prison awaiting extradition, they indicted him here for the conspiracy because after you get hit with a criminal complaint, guys, you need to be indicted shortly thereafter.
So in this case, this criminal complaint was in December.
They end up indicting him later on in March, right?
Then they give him the superseding indictment, right?
Which is here, right?
The big boy, on two different occasions, one in 2018, and then I think then one in 2020, right?
Then they dismissed it, right?
Uh they dismissed it, right here for the Eastern District of Virginia.
They dismissed those cases against him.
So the criminal complaint, the indictments, all that stuff, dismissed, right?
Then they filed an information, okay, guys, which are criminal information to simplify it for you guys.
It's an official charging document sent by the United States attorney.
Okay.
So on one end, you got a criminal complaint that's written by a special agent, filed uh with a judge.
Then you got a criminal information, which is filed through the United States attorney, right?
Or an assistant United States attorney that's signed off by a U.S. attorney, the prosecutor.
And an information guys, nine out of ten times, one of two things.
Either one, they're cooperating and they're snitching, or B, it's like this situation here, where they came to an agreement and they're gonna plead guilty, right?
So whenever you get hit with an information, nine out of ten times that means they're cooperating.
Pro tip for you guys, okay.
So that so they dismissed the criminal complaint out of the Eastern District of Virginia.
Then they hit him with an information in the Northern Mariana Islands.
Why is that?
Because that's where he was gonna fly to to plead guilty to the information.
Okay?
So they hit him with just one charge, conspiracy to obtain and disclosed national defense information, right?
The most basic one.
So here's the information, right?
Which basically summarizes all the crap we ran in the criminal complaint to some degree.
This is count one of it, right?
Which we went over already.
Now, we're gonna add, now we're gonna get into that's the information.
Now we're gonna get into the plea agreement, right?
Which is right here.
Okay, out of the Northern Mariana Islands, United States District Court, which is basically Guam.
So the defendant Julian uh Paul Assange agrees to waive indictment by a grand jury in this district and agrees to plead guilty to an information charging defendant with a conspiracy.
Oh, by the way, give me ones in the chat if that made sense.
Give me one's in the chat if criminal complaints, indictment, and information made sense.
I literally explained all three of them in one.
So give me ones if that made sense.
If you guys, if it doesn't make sense, give me twos.
And then tell me specifically why it doesn't make sense so I can answer that question.
I really want y'all to understand this.
Get some education out of this baby.
You know what I'm saying?
So comment ones or twos.
So comment ones or twos.
Alright.
Cool, cool, cool.
All right.
So it makes sense for y'all.
All right.
And if you're confused by what explain, give me twos, and then I'll be happy to explain it.
But I literally, I think that's a great example.
Yo, somebody click that.
Literally explained a criminal complaint, an indictment, a superseding indictment, and then an information.
So they dismissed all the indictments out of the Eastern District of Virginia, hit him with an information in the Mariana Islands, and then they made him plead guilty in the Mariana Islands.
Okay, because it's federal, they can do that.
Okay, the defendant understand that this is a felony which carries a maximum penalty of not more than 10-year term imprisonment.
Not more than a 10-year term of imprisonment, a fine not to exceed 250,000, blah, blah, blah.
Effect on immigration status.
The federal recognized that pleading guilty may have consequences respect to the defendant's immigration status of the defendant is not a citizen of the United States under federal law, and they put this for anyone that's a foreign national, right?
So he'll he can't come to the United States ever.
Not that he would want to, right?
Uh the court's role on plea and sentencing procedure.
Who gives a fuck about that?
Waiver of constitutional rights.
So he's waiving, obviously going to trial because he's pleading guilty.
Uh discovery.
Yeah, so he doesn't, he's he's giving up discovery because the case is pretty much done.
He's pleading guilty.
And then venue.
Uh yeah, so he consents to being charged in the district of North Mariana Islands, right?
Because this is obviously not the Eastern District of Virginia where he was originally charged.
So he's waiving that.
Statute of limitations.
Um he's waiving that.
Elements of the offense.
Basically, this is the United States talking about how they prove got him, you know, dead to rights, right?
On the elements of the thing.
Uh, factual basis of the statement of facts, right?
Um, and then they go, they basically summarize what him and uh Chelsea Manning did, right?
Which we broke that down into criminal complaint, no need to go through that again.
Uh let's see here.
When it's a detail.
More facts of the case.
Don't worry about it.
We went over this already.
Guantanamo Bay, Afghanistan, Iraq, to include that video that you guys saw.
Okay, acceptance of responsibility.
As a result of this agreement, the defendant will enter a plea of guilty, and then criminal history.
Um, he's not going to get an adjustment of the criminal history because yeah, because he's never served, been arrested before for it.
Uh, okay.
Uh the parties agree further that the defendant entered uh Belmarsh honor about 11.
What the hell?
Okay, the parties agree that the defendant is not entitled to credit for time served.
Okay, for the entire period he has been incarcerated.
Boom.
So, okay.
Uh okay, I kind of jumped the gun there, but yeah, so him serving time in England counts as time served, guys.
Okay.
So um, he was incarcerated at his Majesty's prison Belmarsh, the category A men's prison at Thames Mead, London, England, Belmarsh.
The parties further agree that the defendant entered Belmarsh honorable April 11th, 2019, and at that time of disagreement has served approximately 62 months in prison.
So about five years.
Okay, so that counts as uh time served, right?
Uh let's see here.
Supervised release, restitution, plea agreement.
Let's see anything else here.
Delay in proceedings.
Anything else here?
Other delays.
Okay, that's if he withdraws.
And this is what a standard plea agreement looks like.
Okay, penalty assessment, 100 bucks.
Yeah.
Yeah, if he okay, if he gets into trouble for other laws.
Uh appeal.
We have a foreign active rights.
We have a foreign active rights.
Oh, damn.
Okay.
So he can't get foyer.
he can't request FOIA.
Okay, that's interesting for them to put that in here.
High amendment.
Uh 18 statutory for attorney's fees.
Okay.
the fenugrees and covenants that he or any person or entity acting on his behalf including uh okay let's see here anything else here it's a creation clause Alright, so here we go.
Sean Anderson has the United States attorney, Matthew McKenzie.
And then here's Assange signed it June 24, 2024.
There's this uh thing.
That's a signature.
That's his is the thing.
A lot of this is on his immigration stuff that he can't come to the United States ever, blah blah blah.
So this is him, guys, after he walked out to court and Guam.
Making their way.
I'll approach here and once ladies and gentlemen.
Join your son.
There he is.
How does it feel to be a free man, Mr. Hassan?
Congratulations!
How do you feel about the sentence, sir?
Good, good.
Quick comment about the sentence, sir.
What's your message to the press, sir?
What's your message to the journalist around the world today, Mr. Hassan?
Do you think, John, this is served, sir?
Keep on me, keep on me.
Okay.
Can I give you one third?
Can I give you one hour service?
Please, please say to those people think you're a hero.
Oh, go town.
What do you think?
How many in this one?
Alright.
So and then this is him when he lands in Australia.
How does it feel to be a free man, Mr. Assange?
Now walking free after pleading guilty to violating US espionage law.
Assange court on the end.
His release ends a 14-year legal saga in which Assange spent more than five years in a British high security.
So two days later, it lands in Australia.
As you guys saw, he signed it on, I think, the 24th.
...purity prison and seven years in asylum at the Ecuadorian embassy in London, battling extradition to the United States, where he faced 18 criminal charges.
There's his wife.
He's hugging her.
Oh, stay her there?
Yeah, he's hugging her now.
Oh.
He picked her up in the air.
Picked her on the cheek, kicked her on the mouth.
It took millions of people.
It took people working behind the scenes.
People protesting on the streets for days and weeks and months and years.
And we achieved it.
Julian Julian wanted me to sincere And guys, in that he was on lockdown for more than five.
He was in jail for five years, but he was stuck in that embassy for seven.
So I really thank everyone.
But you have to understand.
Basically 12 years in jail almost.
And what he's been through.
He needs time.
He needs to recuperate.
And this is a process.
I ask you please to give us space, to give us privacy, to find our place, to let our family be a family.
Before he can speak again.
At a time of his choosing.
It's important that journalists all around the world understand the dangerous precedent that this prosecution has set.
So that's one of his lawyers.
I'm appointing an Australian journalist who's been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for these publications.
Has spent more than five years In a high security prison because of this extradition request from the United States.
This is a huge win for Australia and for Australian democracy.
This is a huge win for free speech.
This is a huge win for Australia that our Prime Minister stood up to our ally, the United States, and demanded And there you go, my friends.
I fucking said this.
I called this before this even came out.
When Julian Assange first pled guilty to this, I literally called it.
I said a component as to why he is getting this deal is because he's an Australian national and he is from a five eyes country.
Okay?
Now some of you guys in the chat are probably like, what the fuck are you talking about, Myron Five Eyes?
What the fuck?
I got two.
So guys, there's an alliance between uh in the intelligence world, okay, between the five eyes, okay.
United States, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
Okay.
The five world powers that are English speaking, okay?
They worked together in the Intel world, okay?
So they definitely lobbied to get him back.
Okay.
And I'm gonna talk about a bunch of other factors that led to this as well.
I'm gonna give you guys my breakdown on this uh fully.
But um, but yeah.
He's a rival home and a long running.
Boom, there's Australian Prime Minister right there, Anthony Albanese.
Legal process.
Uh, he described it as a surreal and happy moment.
He's landing here in our national capital, Canberra.
That uh is the I mean, if the Prime Minister is giving a statement on it, that tells you what yes, the Australian government absolutely um lobbied to get him out.
Cherry on the top of a very, very handsome birthday cake.
Um that Julian that's his dad.
Look how much he's aged, man.
Can come home.
Compared to what I showed you on the first documentary.
To Australia.
And see his family regularly and do the ordinary things of life.
He's obviously gained a lot of weight from the stress, probably of being in jail.
I mean life measured amongst the beauty of the ordinary is the essence of the scolding camera, but I was gonna probably have the cold because Julian's been in jail for five years.
So I think to show support and make sure that when he goes to plane, he saw the people will behind him and he had support.
Um I think it was important for the small group of people came here and actually graded him when he came off the plane.
Oh, it's great news.
Um, obviously it's just been way too long.
Um I feel he's just been uh held accountable for for more, and in hindsight, he's been punished more than what he needed to be.
So, you know, it's great news for him, it's great news for his family, it's great news for all of the supporters in Australia.
Um, I think everybody wanted to see this and wanted to see it a long time ago.
All right.
So he's back home.
Um, and this is obviously where he was, guys.
For some of you guys who are wondering, this is Saipan, right?
Out there in the middle of fucking nowhere, by the way.
It's like guam, basically.
Uh yeah.
It's yeah, you guys can see it's like, What the hell?
Yeah, it's out there.
Um but uh but yeah.
Let me see here if we got anything else that we need to show.
Yeah, this was his thing on Chelsea Manning.
Well, Chelsea Manning also supported him as well.
She wanted him go uh free as well.
Jesse Manning, let's see here.
Uh speak on Assange.
So I think she was lobbing to get him out too.
Yeah, let's see why she did it then.
This is from a year ago.
When the world first came to know Chelsea Manning in 2010, she was just 22 years old, an army intelligence analyst and a whistleblower.
We shook up everything we thought we knew about US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
She leaked hundreds of thousands of classified documents to WikiLeaks.
Now, to some Manning is a hero.
To others, she's a traitor.
But after serving seven years in a military prison, including time in solitary, she was granted freedom when then President Obama commuted her sentence in 2017.
Chelsea Manning is now trying to reclaim the narrative about why she did and what she did in a new memoir titled Read Me.
Thank you so much for joining me.
Thank you.
So the book is about offering your side of the story about why you leaked 750,000 documents classified and sensitive to WikiLeaks.
What ultimately do you think pushed you to take that extreme step?
Right.
So what I think of whatever the fuck boiled down to was this incredible discrepancy, this like cognitive dissonance that I had between what the public was.
And, you know, I consider myself a very educated and informed member of the public prior to enlisting the military and deploying to Iraq in 2010.
But there was this discrepancy between what we had access to in the public versus what I actually finally saw on the ground and what we as you know a collective were really sort of seeing on the ground and experiencing every single day.
One of the things that seemed to motivate your action, you write in the book that quote, we, the occupying military force didn't actually give a F about the Iraqi people.
I have to say that's a pretty sweeping thing to say about thousands of service members.
I know men and women who served in Iraq who absolutely cared about the Iraqi people.
Yeah, I think that is a general statement, but uh uh general sentiment.
But uh yeah, what I encountered was the majority of people um we seem to care less about the civilian population, and we put ourselves first, which makes sense to an extent.
But you know, I I also got the sense that you know what even whenever we were saying that that that uh pain that um trying to protect or um have some kind of um you know uh involvement of the host nation uh you know nationals, if if you will, um seemed to fall to the wayside or uh be seen as more of a nuisance than as a then than as something that we should be concerned about.
So the the wicked WikiLeaks happened in 2010 uh in an interview that year by a British television station channel for a Taliban spokesman said the group would punish Afghan nationals working for the US that are named in the WikiLeaks logs.
Now I don't know of any who have actually been harmed.
Right.
Um but did that not worry you at all?
I mean, there are individual Afghans and Iraqis who were working with the US trying to help their country uh and they were being named, and it might put them in jeopardy to have their names leaked.
This actually got fleshed out through the court-martial process.
We uh we we we gathered, we were obviously given discovery and evidence, and um, those statements were made in 2010 and 2011.
But you know, as we came to find out later, you know, there were no informants' names in anything.
Um so the I think that uh this was an accident or at least an assumption uh made on the part of the information review task force that was put together, um, where they were, you know, they they made a statement that uh that it could put put people's harms, you know, put could people could put people in harm's way.
But uh I was I was very careful in you know not uh identifying what is called source identifying information, which is covered under a very different classification uh and protocol system.
There are a lot of traumatizing experiences that you write about from your childhood, from the military, from your prison uh time.
Uh one that I had not heard you speak about before uh is that you are a survivor of sexual assault while in the military.
Uh last month, as you may know, in a confidential survey, some 36,000 service members said they had been victims of sexual assault.
Reports are up 13% last year.
That's just what's being reported, of course.
Yeah.
There are victims out there who like you feel like they can't report it because no one will believe them or no one will care.
Tell us about that.
So yeah, I while I was in the military, as and especially under Don't Ask, Don't Tell, um, because this was uh with a uh and I was identifying or I was uh I was presenting as male and uh the other person was uh was a male, so this was it would have been uh even even any kind of relation whatsoever uh that happened and in that time frame uh would have been uh impermissible.
Um and also this was an officer and then enlisted an encounter, um, and it became uh a non-consensual encounter.
And uh I do th I was the my immediate instinct was to hide it to cover it up and to pretend that it didn't happen, and it started to eat at me.
I'm so sorry that happened.
You dedicate uh this memoir to trans kids.
Um over the past year we've seen a lot of legislation about trans kids.
Um I'm wondering what you would say to any of the lawmakers introducing these bills, keeping trans kids from the bathrooms they want to use or or being who they are, what you would say to these lawmakers.
Uh I mean it's I have less of a message for the lawmakers and more as of a message toward to the kids, which the lawmakers can hear if they if if they so choose, which is that, you know, like we've got we've faced reactionary waves, uh, you know, reactionary attacks uh against the queer and trans community uh throughout history, you know, whether it be the HIV and AIDS pandemic, whether it be uh under the Reagan administration with Anita Bryant and moral majority.
We've we faced this before, and I faced, you know, uh my own, you know, like uh you know, sort of reactionary rollbacks before in my own in my own life.
Uh that, you know, even even regardless of what the law says, you are valued as a human being, you're valued as a person, uh, and we have survived these kinds of things and and progressed past these things, even whenever things do get rolled back.
So even though I do expect that you know rollbacks will continue, um, I I I I hope to bring uh at least some you know uh light in in into the into thinking about the future and the optimism that uh that I have towards you know the you know getting past this because we've survived as a community.
All right, Chelsea Manning, thank you so much.
Thank you, Jake.
But that's fine.
Uh I guess because uh whatever.
Okay, uh so guys.
Uh we're on YouTube, so I'm not gonna say it all.
Um so guys, tomorrow we got um Donovan Sharp in the house with uh Tommy Sotomayora.
That was gonna be a good time.
And then we're also gonna go ahead and have a um a Zoom call probably with Castle Club after the fact.
Um, and yeah, we're gonna give you guys a three-p.
We're gonna have after hours for you guys.
We're gonna have obviously Tommy and Donovan, and we're gonna do um a money Monday on how to get into the trucking business, guys.
So it's gonna be uh it's gonna be Liddy.
It's gonna be a good time.
Uh let me see here if I got any chats I gotta read before we close this thing up.
Uh essay.
Oh, yeah.
Okay.
I see Valex hear what you're saying.
Uh I would read that chat more on YouTube, bro.
Uh okay, let's see here.
You know how YouTube is, unfortunately.
Assange also saved us from Hillier.
Do you think the Pizzagate thing is real?
I don't know enough about Pizzagate, man.
I'm I'm uh I'm gonna look into it some more, though.
Um cool.
So guys, I think that will do it for tonight's stream.
Uh give me once in the chat if you guys learned.
Uh we talked about a lot of things.
We talked about what a criminal complaint is, indictment, superseding indictment, information, waiving uh case.
Um we read through the indictment.
We talked about what confidential secret and top secret is.
Um we went over all the facts and circumstances circumstances.
So give me ones if y'all learned something today.
Um I hope you guys did.
I enjoyed breaking this case down, which Oh, God, how how could I almost forget?
Let me so let me give you guys why I think.
Um I a lot of people have spoken on the community, they want you to do IRO Change of Mind segment once a week.
All right, cool.
We will do it.
We will do that uh on Fridays probably.
That uh change my mind stuff.
Okay, so here, guys, is my um take on this investigation, okay?
And why they decided to go ahead and just you know take the one simple, you know, guilty plea and let him go.
So, multiple reasons.
Number one, the extradition process.
Let's talk about that.
So, guys, the extraditional process is extremely time consuming.
Someone clicked this by the way, okay?
This is not gonna go into why I suspect they um let Julian Assange off with just a guilty plea, uh, one charge of you know, uh the Espinage Act.
The extradition process, guys, is extremely taxing.
You have to do something called an MLAT, okay?
Which I think it stands for mutual lateral agreement treaty.
Let me look this up real quick.
MLAT.
Yeah, MLAT, yeah, mutual legal assistance treaty.
All right, close enough.
Which is agreement between countries to share information and assist each other in enforcing criminal or public laws.
These treaties allow law enforcement prosecutors to obtain evidence, information and testimony from other countries that can be used in the courts of the requesting country, right?
So you have to fill out an MLAT, right, guys, to um.
You have to fill out an MLAT to get someone extradited.
And it's very difficult to get someone extradited because extradition depends on a couple of different factors.
Number one, it depends on the crime.
Number two, it depends on the country that you're extraditing them from.
Number three, it depends on the nationality of the individual that you're trying to extradite.
Okay.
So then also it also depends on the aggression of your assistant United States attorney's office, right?
So if they're not aggressive, they're not gonna put in all the work it takes to get this done because MLATs are something that's almost exclusively done by the AUSA's office, right?
So um it's not easy to do.
It could take years, guys, to do an extradition uh through an MLAT, right?
So at this point, he had served five years in jail.
So they're looking at it like, okay, are we gonna continue to do this taxing, cumbersome, annoying process of an MLAT for an Australian national who, like I suspected, I predicted this correctly on X. The Australian government doesn't want to give to the United States, right?
Because the Australian government knows if he goes to the United States, he might go to trial.
If he goes to trial, there's a good chance he might get executed for these crimes.
Because guys, the Espionage Act carries, you could get a life sentence or um or get the death penalty For it.
Okay.
So it's not a good look for an Australian citizen to get extra out of the United States, found guilty of the espionage act, and then killed.
And then on top of that, he's a journalist.
Okay?
That's the real big one.
At the end of the day, he's a journalist, right?
So if you're gonna fault anybody, it's Manning.
It's not Assange to the same degree.
Now, granted, we read through the complaint.
Assange actively helped him hack into one of the databases, right?
Which is why the United States was so pissed off at him, part of it, right?
Obviously, and also leaking that video of the Iraq shooting, right?
But they're looking at it like, look, you guys already got your person with Manning.
She did her time, she went to the uh uh, you know, court martial, all that, right?
Give us back Assange.
That's what I guarantee the Australian government lobbied for.
Because the prime minister wouldn't be doing no fucking press release for a terrible criminal, right?
So that I think saved him.
And then on top of that, from the U.S. government perspective, so the U.S. government is kind of seeing this year that prosecuting people on political matters is an L. What do I mean by this?
Look at Donald Trump.
Donald Trump goes ahead and gets indicted in four different districts.
Okay, he got indicted in New York.
He got indicted in Georgia, right?
Two state cases on the RICO case in Georgia, and then the false fine business records in in uh New York.
Then he got indicted out of Washington, D.C. for the insurrection stuff, and then he got indicted in Florida for the national uh defense documents, right?
He got convicted in New York, as you guys know, not too long ago.
What happens?
He raises a hundred million dollars in a couple of days, right?
He gets indicted, he goes up in the polls.
The January 6ers, they just recently um, you know, reverse some case law on the laws that on the January 6th cases.
I was actually gonna cover that today.
I might do that next week for you guys, right?
So think of it from the U.S. government's perspective, right?
Merrick Garland and the Department of Justice is looking at this like, okay.
We indicted Trump and it backfired.
We put these January 6ers in jail and it backfired.
There's an enormous amount of um positive response for Julian Assange, and he's a journalist, and the Australian government is lobbying for him to be um, you know, returned home.
Is it really to our benefit to extradite him here, go to trial, spend money, spend more time when it's gonna make us look bad because we're prosecuting a journalist, we're putting him in jail, he could face the death penalty.
The Australian government, one of our allies, wants him back, and we already backfired on ourselves with the Trump in the January 6th case.
So if I'm Mayor Garland over at the Department of Justice, I'm like, man, fuck this shit.
Dismiss the case out of Eastern District of Virginia, let's get this guy a plea agreement.
Let's still get our W because guys, make no mistake about it.
A plea agreement is a W, right?
Because federal cases normally don't lose.
Getting him to plead guilty is still a W for the United States attorney's office, right?
Still a stat, positive stat.
Let's get him to plead guilty, get him the fuck out of here.
Send him back to Australia, right?
We get some CIA guys to kill him later, right?
Which I which I vow is Assange, I'd be I would be concerned for my safety, right?
Because uh, you know, I wouldn't be surprised if they wouldn't try if uh uh the Intel agencies don't wouldn't try to murk him later on.
But for now, I think he'll be safe for at least another two, three years.
You know, they're gonna murk him when no one cares anymore, obviously, right?
Or they're gonna try.
But sitting back, watching this, it makes the most sense for the U.S. government to move this way.
It doesn't make sense to continue processing him.
Sorry, it doesn't make sense to continue the extradition process and MLE process and bring him over to the United States and you know, face a trial and also the bullshit when Australians wanted back.
That's an ally, right?
If he was from another country, it might be a little bit different.
But I guarantee the Australian government absolutely lobbied to get him back.
And the human rights lawyer even said it that the Australian prime minister stood up to the U.S. government to get him back.
So, you know, and then also it was done, someone mentioned this earlier.
I think the Biden administration also said, you know what, bro, let's get him back.
Obama put gave Peyton commuted her sentence, right?
So it only makes sense that Biden would go ahead and push to get him uh sent back to Australia as well.
Because remember, for a lot of you guys forget Joe Biden was Obama's vice president.
A lot of you Gen Zers don't even remember that.
Don't know because you guys were probably babies back then.
Biden was Obama's vice president vice president, guys.
And now Obama is pretty much like the vice president for Biden right now.
He's pretty much the president, to be honest with you.
He's involved in very heavily involved in the Biden administration.
But regardless, does that make sense, guys?
So just too many things that don't make sense for the U.S. government to continue this prosecution and uh and extradition process doesn't make sense.
He served five years, Australia government wants him back.
It's gonna cost him a bunch of money and time.
Fuck it.
It doesn't look good.
It's a black eye on the U.S. government, uh, US uh U.S. Department of Justice anyway, right?
When you persecute people politically, Donald Trump, January 6th was Julian Assange.
It just makes the Department of Justice look bad.
And they don't want any more bad press at this point.
Government approval right now by the by the American public is at an all-time fucking low.
There was a poll recently on this that um the US government, the U.S. um, the American people don't trust the U.S. government.
It's has some of the lowest approval ratings ever.
So fuck it, man.
It's not worth it to them.
Give me ones in the chat if y'all agree.
Give me twos in the chat if you guys disagree.
Give me threes in the chat if you guys enjoyed the show.
I'm just kidding.
Want to see what you guys think.
But that's my general consensus.
That's my summary, guys.
Of why they let Assange go.
And I think that's a big reason too, why they went ahead, the Supreme Court uh went back on some of that case law for the January 6ers.
I think the U.S. government's waking up and realizing that persecuting people politically is not the way to go.
It may it makes you lose trust with the American public.
And Trump proved that.
Trump absolutely proved that.
He got found guilty and he raised 100 million dollars and he's getting more support than ever before.
So they're seeing that.
And I think the Washington case, um, the national defense, the the Florida uh federal case, they pushed that back, and then the Washington DC case, they pushed that one back too.
So they're delaying it.
So they're catching on that, like, yo, just indicting indicting people politically is just not a good move.
So that's why I think Julian Assange was released.
That's why I think the January 6ers uh loss is uh laws were kind of reversed from the Supreme Court perspective.
And Donald Trump, I was uh you guys love him or hate him, Donald Trump absolutely set a precedent.
That political prosecution is not a wave.
It is not a wave.
Created a black eye for the U.S. Department of Justice and law enforcement and the prosecutorial offices in general.
Martin, if we do go to war, where do you think we will put the boots on the ground first?
Europe theater or Middle East.
It'll be the Middle East, 100%.
It'll be the Middle East.
Uh cool.
Guys, two hours on the dot.
Hope you guys enjoyed today's episode of Fed Reacts.
Um, I know I did.
I'll uh catch you guys tomorrow.
We're gonna have a three P. Like I said, we're gonna have Jonathan Sharp and Tommy Soda Mayor.
We're gonna have Big Things of Guan.
We're gonna have him on talk uh on to talk about trucking, right?
So for Money Monday, and then we're gonna have an after hours for you guys.
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