The Freedom of the Press Foundation has obtained a leaked audio of the military tribunal against Bradley Manning, where Manning reads his statement which was previously transcribed and published on The Guardian.
This leaked audio finally allows the rest of the world to hear the words of Manning in his own voice, a chilling insight into how corrupted the US government is when a man who exposed murder and injustice is subjected to trial and punishment hidden from the public to such a degree that one suspects he would have been better off partaking in the feast of chaos and destruction rather than fight it.
Glenn Greenwald has summarised much of the case and annotated the more bewildering and important statements.
Daniel Ellsberg has publicly endorsed the release of the audio, while simultaneously heralding Bradley Manning as “the personification of the word whistleblower.”
