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Bradley Manning was arrested, imprisoned in solitary confinement for nine months, and court-martialed for leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous “Collateral Murder” gunsight video. He was an intelligence analyst in the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division, is twenty-four, and comes from Crescent, Oklahoma.

But who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he commit the largest security breach in American history—and why was it so easy? In this book, the astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantánamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing.

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February 12, 2013
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5.14 x 0.6 x 7.76 inches
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1781680698
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“As this fine and important study reports, Bradley Manning holds to the principle that ‘it’s important the public should know what its government is doing.’ Release of the Wikileaks documents has been a courageous and important service to this cause.” —Noam Chomsky

“Time after time, patriotic whistleblowers like Bradley Manning are fired, shunned, or prosecuted, despite their heroic efforts to protect the public from a secretive government’s illegal activities. It’s time to do what we can to protect these brave souls, and reading Chase Madar’s fine book is an excellent start.” —Former US Senator James Abourezk

“Chase Madar has written a powerful, compelling and moving defense of Bradley Manning. Bravo!” —Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner

“The mistreatment, trial, and fate of Private Bradley Manning will undoubtedly read like an obituary on the Obama years. His case is a crucial one, and Chase Madar turned his sharp eye on it early. This is the single must-read book on the case.” —Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch.com

“The Passion of Bradley Manning reminds us that it was James Madison himself who wrote that a popular government without popular information is but a prelude to tragedy or farce. Author and lawyer Chase Madar tells a great story that raises critical questions about the appropriate balance of government secrecy and national security in a modern democracy.” —Anthony D. Romero, Executive Director, American Civil Liberties Union

“The Passion of Bradley Manning ... tells the story of Manning both biographically and regarding Wikileaks and his imprisonment.” —Z Magazine

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Chase Madar is a lawyer in New York and a contributor to the London Review of Books and Le Monde diplomatique.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Verso; 1st edition (February 12, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 256 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1781680698
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1781680698
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.14 x 0.6 x 7.76 inches

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mari

Simple, passionate and concise

Reviewed in the United States on July 4, 2013

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This is an easy read that will make your blood boil at our helplessness when it comes to fighting powerful governments. It also exposes the truth about the Obama administration. Not all that pretty after all.
Chase Madar is passionate about his subject and it shows in his writing. In it's simplicity it may invite criticism from some cynics that he is too biased or blinded to the other side. But he tells it like it is without worrying about the literary merits of his writing. It is like reading a damned good editorial in a good newspaper intent on exposing the truth.
This book has to be serialised in a popular magazine or newspaper to reach the average person in the street. Then and only then will the passion of idealistic people be rewarded and understood by the 'least common denominator'.
This book is a call to arms for us to insist on unbiased reporting by vested interests. Every article in every newspaper, every news item in the nightly news should be checked for facts to expose the lies of these media giants.
Don't expect poetry, don't expect well-set scenes, and don't expect well-defined images. This is a well researched story without frills. Don't enjoy it, just read it and get angry!

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Thomas Fortino

Facts and Food For Thought

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2013

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After having read this book I came away with a totally different feeling towards Bradley Manning's actions. The supportive facts and the thorough analysis of his actions provided a "change" in my feelings for what he did. I highly recommend this book...

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RJ Stansfield

Gor blimey ... read this !

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 6, 2013

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I don't often find time to read a book cover to cover. But in this case I did. It ought to be required reading in schools and universities. As a sequel to Orwell's "1984".
The Soviets promulgated the idea that since Communism was obviously perfect, dissenters must be insane. So they were right, they said, to bung them away in "secure mental institutions", read prisons where they could be abused at will by brutal
psychopaths.
I grew up believing "we" are the Guys in White Hats, striving to bring civilization (synonymous, we believed, with "democracy" and "freedom") to those dark regions that hadn't yet "got" it.
"When I became a man, I put away childish things." Like the heroes in "The Matrix", "Dark City", etc, I began to see a wider world that wasn't much like the one we are propagandized hourly to believe. I suspect many of us see it too but don't want to face up to it. There are penalties. Like being ostracized or treated as crank.
The point about Manning is that he didn't shirk what he saw as his human duty to expose the facts he uncovered as an American technician skilled in computer data analysis. He was located in an isolated outpost in Iraq, where he found American security astonishingly lax. He had secret security clearance, and was legally able to root around "secure" data & communications outside his "remit". What he uncovered horrified him. Responsibly, he never revealed anything labelled "Secret", only "Classified". Heaven help us over what is "Secret". So much for the accusation he is a threat to national security. Some people's security undoubtedly, but not the public's.
What was even more horrifying was that he saw how many others saw what he saw, but either couldn't care less, or were too frightened to speak out at all, or at least were told by their "reporting line" to shut the blazes up. It was clear that determination to keep quiet about dreadful practices -- both at home and in those sad places benefitting from Western "stability" and "democracy" (read colonies) -- not only was the norm, but went to the top echelons of command and government.
Thus any few brave enough to voice dissent were portrayable as mentally unstable, and therefore to be institutionalized
somewhere that their cry would go unheard. For writing what he had found, for us all to read, he was treated thus. He was and is systematically abused by continual mental torture in isolation, where he is kept "for his own safety", because of course he is crackers and may harm himself. And of course, as a trans-sexual, well, what more need be said ? Long live the USSR.
Madar summarizes 5 areas in which he assesses Manning as doing an ongoing service to Mankind. Toothpaste out of the tube and all that. The rest of the book cites the evidence Manning uncovered. (What can we say ? "It will take more than the facts to convince ME" ?)
[1] Giving [the American] foreign policy elite the public supervision it so badly needs. I believe he will only achieve this if you and I take notice and withhold our support for, and cease to vote in favour of, the evildoers. Even if they are "our" evildoers.
[2] Exposing the pathological over-classification of America's public documents. "Everything is a state secret." USSR again ?
[3] Advancing the cause of freedom abroad. By revealing the myth that the Government wants the foreigners it dominates to be treated humanely, but in fact treats them like rubbish.
[4] Performing his duties in exemplary fashion. Ie speaking out when others fear to do it.
[5] Upholding American tradition of transparency in statecraft. "More observed in the breach ...".
Madar explains, because Manning no longer can, that this appalling abuse of Manning is not confined to Manning or Guantanamo. It is being done to thousands incarcerated in the USA. Against international law, which the US Government does not respect, and for no reason except gratuitous brutality. "Don't criticize me, or I'll kick your face in. Look what I'm doing to these others."
If none of this worries you, if you think by contrast that our side of The Pond is the Home of the White Hats, this book will be a waste of your time.

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J. Mclean

Dear NSA this is the sort of stuff that I read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 9, 2014

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Dear NSA I was going to purchase this book in a back street book shop using cash, but what the heck I have decided to do it online with a credit card and full delivery details.

I await your drone-agram.

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J. McLean

PS: Fantastic book and a very brave person. The greatest power on earth fully deployed against one fragile man. He did not run, and has been vilified, damned and kept in a concrete cell. Even his lawyers cried when he was cast into the cell for 35 years, Manning did not, his first thoughts were to reasure those weeping that "everything was going to be OK". Reminds me of the Romans and their treatment of a certain person who dared to bring hope.

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