United States vs. Manning

2010-02-27

On February 27, 2010 a report was received in the S2 Section of the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division from a subordinate battalion. The report described an event in which the Federal Police or FP detained 15 individuals for printing anti-Iraqi literature.

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2010-03-02

15 IRAQI DETAINEES-- On March 2, 2010 Bradley Manning receives instructions from an S3 section officer in the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division Tactical Operation Center or TOC to investigate the matter of the February 27, 2010 report concerning an event in which the Federal Police or FP detained 15 individuals for printing anti-Iraqi literature. Manning is directed to to figure out who these quote 'bad guys' unquote were and how significant this event was for the Federal Police. Over the course of Manning's research he found that none of the individuals had previous ties to anti-Iraqi actions or suspected terrorist militia groups. A few hours later, he received several photos from the scene-- from the subordinate battalion. The photos included picture of the individuals, pallets of unprinted paper and seized copies of the final printed material or the printed document; and a high resolution photo of the printed material itself. Manning printed up one [missed word] copy of a high resolution photo-- laminated it for ease of use and transfer. He then walked to the TOC and delivered the laminated copy to their category two interpreter. She reviewed the information and about a half an hour later delivered a rough written transcript in English to the S2 section. She said the general nature of the document was benign and merely a scholarly critique of the then current Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. It detailed corruption within the cabinet of al-Maliki's government and the financial impact of his corruption on the Iraqi people. After discovering this discrepancy between the Federal Police's report and the interpreter's transcript, Manning forwarded this discovery to the top OIC and the battle NCOIC. The top OIC and the overhearing battle captain informed Manning that they didn't need or want to know this information anymore. They told me to quote 'drop it' unquote and to just assist them and the Federal Police in finding out, where more of these print shops creating quote 'anti-Iraqi literature' unquote. When Manning returned to the T-SCIF and complained to the other analysts and my section NCOIC about what happened. Some were sympathetic, but no one wanted to do anything about it.

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2010-03-04

Bradley Manning testified that he knew that if I continued to assist the Baghdad Federal Police in identifying the political opponents of Prime Minister al-Maliki, those people would be arrested and in the custody of the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police and very likely tortured and not seen again for a very long time-- if ever. So, instead of assisting the Special Unit of the Baghdad Federal Police, he decided to take the information and expose it to WikiLeaks, in the hope that before the upcoming 7 March 2010 election, they could generate some immediate press on the issue and prevent this unit of the Federal Police from continuing to crack down on political opponents of al-Maliki. On 4 March 2010, Manning burns the report, the photos, the high resolution copy of the pamphlet, and the interpreter's hand written transcript onto a CD-RW. He takes the CD-RW to his CHU and copies the data onto his personal computer. Unlike the times before, instead of uploading the information through the WLO website's submission form, he made a Secure File Transfer Protocol or SFTP connection to a file drop box operated by WikiLeaks. The drop box contained a folder that allowed him to upload directly into it. Saving files into this directory, allowed anyone with log in access to the server to view and download them.

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2010-03-05

At the same time that Manning tried to provide specifics to WikiLeaks about the 15 Iraqi dissidents detained at a printing press for 'anti-Iraqi literature' Manning began sifting through information from the US Southern Command or SOUTHCOM and Joint Task Force Guantanamo, Cuba or JTF-GTMO. Manning testified that the thought occurred to him-- although unlikely, that he wouldn't be surprised if the individuals detained by the Federal Police might be turned over back into US custody-- and ending up in the custody of Joint Task Force Guantanamo. As he digested through the information on Joint Task Force Guantanamo, he quickly found the Detainee Assessment Briefs or DABs. He previously came across the documents before in 2009 but did not think much about them. However, this time he was more curious in during this search and I found them again.

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2010-03-05

Bradley Manning testifies that after uploading files to the WikiLeaks related to the 15 Iraqi dissidents detaineed at a printing press in the Karadda Peninsula, on 5 March 2010, he notifies Nathaniel over Jabber. Although sympathetic, Nathaniel says that the WikiLeaks needed more information to confirm the event in order for it to be published or to gain interest in the international media. Manning attempts to provide specifics, but to his disappointment, WikiLeaks chose not to publish the information.

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