The Passion of Bradley Manning

by Chase Madar

  Deutscher Bundestag, “Menschenrechtsausschuss protestiert gegen Haftbedingungen von Bradley Manning,” press release issued April 13, 2011. http://www.bundestag.de/presse/pressemitteilungen/2011/pm_1104132.html

  Steve Fishman, “Bradley Manning’s Army of One,” New York Magazine, July 3, 2011.

  http://nymag.com/news/features/bradley-manning-2011–7/

  Frontline, “The Private Life of Bradley Manning,” broadcast March 29, 2011 on WGBH, Boston, http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/wikileaks/bradley-manning/

  Glenn Greenwald, “Joe Biden v. Joe Biden on WikiLeaks,” Salon, December 18, 2010.

  http://www.salon.com/2010/12/18/wikileaks_22/

  Greg Mitchell,“Ethan McCord on New York Magazine Profile of Manning: It ‘Erases’ His Political Motives,” The Nation, July 10, 2011. http://www.thenation.com/blog/161902/ethan-mccord-new-york-magazine-profilebradley-manning-it-erases-his-political-motives

  Ellen Nakashina, “Bradley Manning is at the center of the WikiLeaks controversy. But who is he?” Washington Post, May 4, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/who-is-wikileaks-suspect-bradley-manning/2011/04/16/AFMwBmrF_story.html

  Denver Nicks, “Private Manning and the Making of Wikileaks,” This Land Press, September 23, 2010, http://thislandpress.com/09/23/2010/private-manning-and-the-making-of-wikileaks-2/

  Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Guy Grandjean, “Bradley Manning: the bullied outsider who knew US military’s inner secrets,” The Guardian, May 27, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-us-military-outsider

  Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Guy Grandjean, “WikiLeaks accused Bradley Manning ‘should never have been sent to Iraq’,” The Guardian, May 27, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/27/bradley-manning-wikileaks-mentally-fragile

  Maggie O’Kane, Chavala Madlena and Guy Grandjean, “Bradley Manning: fellow soldier recalls ‘scared, bullied kid’,” The Guardian, May 28, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/may/28/bradley-manning-video-transcript-wikileaks

  James Oliphant, “Protest over accused WikiLeaker disrupts Obama fundraiser,” Los Angeles Times, April 21, 2011. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/apr/21/news/la-pn-obama-fundraiser-20110421

  Ed Pilkington, “PJ Crowley resigns over Bradley Manning remarks,” The Guardian, March 13, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/13/pj-crowley-resigns-bradley-manning-remarks

  Kevin Poulsen, “Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Institutionalized, Diagnosed with Asperger’s,” Wired, May 20, 2010. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/05/lamo/

  Joy Reid, “The Manning chat logs: TMI and corroboration of guilt,” The Reid Report, July 14, 2011. http://blog.reidreport.com/2011/07/manning-chat-logs/

  Peter Van Buren, We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2011)

  Robert VerBruggen, “Abusing the WikiLeaker?” National Review Online, March 15, 2011. http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/262195/abusing-wikileaker-robert-verbruggenœ

  The Leaks

  “Fundamental Review Yields Reduction in Scope of Secrecy,” Secrecy News, October 3, 2011. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/10/fcgr_reduction.html

  Steven Aftergood, “Fundamental Review Yields Reduction in Scope of Secrecy,” Secrecy News, October 3, 2011. http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2011/10/fcgr_reduction.html

  “After WikiLeaks scolding, top offical says excess vice ministers are out,” Dominican Today, September 19, 2011, http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2011/9/19/40976/After-WikiLeaks-scolding-top-official-says-excess-vice-ministers-are-out

  Julian Assange,“What’s new about WikiLeaks?” New Statesman, April 14, 2011. http://www.newstatesman.com/digital/2011/04/civil-war-wikileaks-newspapers

  James Ball, “Guantánamo Bay files: Anti-extremist author framed and whisked to Cuba,” The Guardian, April 24, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/25/guantanamo-files-framed-author-mannan

  Julian Borger, “Obama administration ‘supplied bunker-busting bombs to Israel,’ ” The Guardian, September 27, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/julian-borger-global-security-blog/2011/sep/27/iran-nuclear-weapons

  Elisabeth Bumiller, “Gates on Leaks, Wiki and Otherwise,” New York Times, November 30, 2010. http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/gates-on-leaks-wiki-and-otherwise/

  Mark Clayton, “WikiLeaks list of ‘critical’ sites: Is it a ‘menu for terrorists’?” Christian Science Monitor, December 6, 2010.

  http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Foreign-Policy/2010/1206/WikiLeaks-list-of-critical-sites-Is-it-a-menu-for-terrorists

  John Cook, “Qaddafi’s Son Is Bisexual and Other Things the New York Times Doesn’t Want You to Know,” Gawker, September 16, 2011. http://gawker.com/5840809/

  Dan Coughlin and Kim Ives,“WikiLeaks Haiti: Let Them Live on $3 a Day,” June 1, 2011. http://www.thenation.com/article/161057/wikileaks-haiti-let-them-live-3-day

  Susan Crawford, “U.S. Falls Behind in Race Toward Open Government,” Bloomberg News, August 23, 2011. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-08-24/u-s-falls-behind-in-race-toward-open-government-susan-crawford.html

  “Dick Marty rendition report condemns ‘cult of secrecy,’” BBC News, September 7, 2011. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14820145

  Gianluca DiFeo and Stefania Maurizi, “Objective: enlist Wojtyla,” L’Espresso, April 22, 2011. http://espresso.repubblica.it/dettaglio/objective-enlist-wojtyla/2149821

  “EEUU: Castresana dijo que el 25% de asesinatos en tiempos de Vielmann eran limpieza social,” Plaza Publica, September 19, 2011.

  http://www.plazapublica.com.gt/content/eeuu-castresana-dijo-que-el-25-de-asesinatos-en-tiempos-de-vielmann-eran-limpieza-social

  Peter Ford,“No retribution for WikiLeaks outing Chinese sources,” The Christian Science Monitor, September 13, 2011. http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/no-retribution-wikileaks-outing-chinese-sources

  Will Graff, “Manning peer sheds light on WikiLeaks: Former military intel analyst shares his thoughts on the motive of alleged leaks,” Western Front Online, April 15, 2011.

  http://westernfrontonline.net/news/13331-manning-peer-sheds-light on-wikileaks-former-military-intel-analyst-shares-his-thoughts-on-the-motive-of-alleged-leaks

  Elizabeth Goitein, “Bradley Manning didn’t break the secrecy system,” Salon, December 13, 2011.

  http://www.salon.com/2011/12/13/bradley_manning_didnt_break_the_secrecy_system/

  Elizabeth Goitein and David M. Shapiro, Reducing Overclassification Through Accountability (New York: Brennan Center for Justice Report, 2011) http://www.brennancenter.org/content/resource/reducing_overclassification_through_accountability/

  Glenn Greenwald, “Secrecy, leaks and the real criminals,” Salon, August 26, 2011. http://www.salon.com/2011/08/26/secrecy_10/

  Glenn Greenwald, “Urgent Leak Investigation Needed,” Salon, March 24, 2011. http://www.salon.com/2011/03/24/leak/singleton/

  Glenn Greenwald, “Major new leak investigation needed into Pakistan revelations,” Salon, July 5, 2011. http://www.salon.com/2011/07/05/leaks_2/

  David Harrison,“Wikileaks: Civilians gunned down at checkpoints,” The Daily Telegraph, October 23, 2010.

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/8082605/Wikileaks-Civilians-gunned-down-at-checkpoints.html

  Michael Hastings, “Julian Assange: The Rolling Stone Interview,” Rolling Stone, January 18, 2012. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/julian-assange-the-rolling-stone-interview-20120118

  “Huge Wikileaks release shows US ‘ignored Iraq torture,’ ” BBC News, October 23, 2010. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11611319

  Human Rights Watch, “Iraq: WikiLeaks Documents Describe Torture of Detainees,” press release, October 23, 2010. http://www.hrw.org/en/news/2010/10/24/iraq-wikileaks-documents-describe-torture-detainees

  Bradley Klapper and Cassandra Vinograd,“AP review finds no threatened WikiLea
ks sources,”Associated Press, September 10, 2011. http://cnsnews.com/news/article/ap-review-finds-no-threatened-wikileaks-sources

  The Brian Lehrer Show, “George Packer on Wikileaks and Julian Assange,” December 7, 2010. http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/dec/07/george-packer-foreign-policy/

  David Leigh and Luke Harding, Wikileaks: Inside Julian Assange’s War on Secrecy (London: Guardian Books, 2011)

  James Love,“Looking at WikiLeaks cables on pharmaceutical drugs and trade pressures,” Le Monde diplomatique, September 2011. http://mondediplo.com/openpage/looking-at-wikileaks-cables-on-pharmaceutical

  Tim Mak, “McCain: I didn’t want arms for Qadhafi,” Politico, Augsut 29, 2011.

  http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0811/62251.html

  Ray McGovern, “Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran,” Truthout, October 4, 2011. http://www.truth-out.org/israels-window-bomb-iran/1317737241

  Emile Mervin,“The people of Guyana have to be grateful for the WikiLeaks cables,” Stabrowek news, September 15, 2011. http://www.stabroeknews.com/2011/opinion/letters/09/15/the-people-of-guyana-have-to-be-grateful-for-the-wikileaks-cables/

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Secrecy: The American Experience (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998)

  Steven Lee Myers, “U.S. Envoy Puts Match to Bridges With Iraq Tell-All,” New York Times, October 7, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/us-envoy-peter-van-buren-takes-caustic-pen-to-iraq-war.html?pagewanted=all

  Dana Priest and William M. Arkin, Top Secret America: The Rise of the New American Security State (New York: Little, Brown, 2011)

  Coleen Rowley and Bogdan Dzakovic, “WikiLeaks and 9/11: What if?” Los Angeles Times, October 15, 2010. http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/15/opinion/la-oe-rowley-wikileaks-20101015

  Eric Schmitt,“U.S. Envoy’s Cables Show Worries on Afghan Plans,” New York Times, January 25, 2010. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/asia/26strategy.html?adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1323097612-iRX1fsdEEVw 20fOANsoM0Q

  Matthew Schofield, “WikiLeaks: Iraqi children in U.S. raid shot in head,” Toronto Star, August 31, 2011.

  http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/1047711—wikileaks-iraqi-children-in-u-s-raid-shot-in-head?bn=1

  Razeshta Sethna, “Pakistani prisoners at Bagram wait for Justice,” Dawn, December 4, 2011. http://www.dawn.com/2011/12/04/pakistani-prisoners-at-bagram-wait-for-justice.html

  Jack Shafer, “WikiLeaks, Hillary Clinton, and the Smoking Gun,” Slate, November 29, 2010. http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/press_box/2010/11/wikileaks_hillary_clinton_and_the_smoking_gun.single.html

  Scott Shane, “A Closed-Mouth Policy Even on Open Secret,” New York Times, October 4, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/05/us/politics/awlaki-killing-is-awash-in-open-secrets.html

  Scott Shane, “No Jail Time in Trial Over N.S.A. Leak,” New York Times, July 15, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/16/us/16leak.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1322532590-M+eZrtAHXyBGwMM3e2PJ0w

  Claire Suddath, “How Not to Censor a Book: Pentagon Makes a Best Seller,” Time, September 30, 2010. http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2022459,00.html

  Steven Swinford, “WikiLeaks: Egyptian ‘torturers’ trained by FBI,” Daily Telegraph, Feberuary 9, 2011. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/wikileaks/8314475/WikiLeaks-Egyptian-torturers-trained-by-FBI.html

  “WikiLeaks: Israel aimed to keep Gaza economy on brink of collapse,” Haaretz, May 1, 2011. http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/wikileaks-israel-aimed-to-keep-gaza-economy-on-brink-of-collapse-1.335354

  Benjamin Wittes, “‘I’m all for leaking when it’s organized’,” Lawfare, October 29, 2011. http://www.lawfareblog.com/2011/10/im-all-for-leaking-when-its-organized/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

  Whistleblowers and Publics

  Alexander Cockburn, “Do Disclosures of Atrocities Change Anything?” Counterpunch, July 31-August 2, 2010. http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/08/01/do-disclosures-of-atrocities-change-anything/

  Alexander Cockburn, “Julian Assange: Wanted by the Empire, Dead or Alive,” Counterpunch, December 3–5, 2010. http://www.counterpunch.org/2010/12/03/julian-assange-wanted-by-the-empire-dead-or-alive/

  David Corn, “Colin Powell’s Vietnam Fog,” The Nation, May 14, 2001. http://www.thenation.com/article/colin-powells-vietnam-fog

  Maureen Dowd, “From Gallipoli to Singapore,” New York Times, July 19, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/20/opinion/20dowd.html

  Daniel Ellsberg, Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers (New York: Penguin, 2002)

  Claude Fischer,“Sweet land of… conformity?” Boston Globe, June 6, 2010. http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/06/06/sweet_land_of_conformity/

  Glenn Greenwald,“Newly leaked documents show the ongoing travesty of Guantánamo,” Salon, April 25, 2011. http://www.salon.com/2011/04/25/guantanamo_19/

  Steven Lee Myers, “U.S. Envoy Puts Match to Bridges With Iraq Tell-All,” New York Times, October 7, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/08/world/us-envoy-peter-van-buren-takes-caustic-pen-to-iraq-war.html?pagewanted=all

  Ray McGovern, “Israel’s Window to Bomb Iran,” Truthout, October 4, 2011. http://www.truth-out.org/israels-window-bomb-iran/1317737241

  Alan Trachtenberg, Reading American Photographs: Images as History (New York: Hill and Wang, 1990)

  The Torture of Bradley Manning

  Jared Ball, “Bradley Manning, Political Imprisonment and the Myopia of the Left,” Black Agenda Report, July 13, 2011. http://blackagendareport.libsyn.com/bradley-manning-political-imprisonment-and-the-myopia-of-the-left

  “Cruel Isolation,” editorial, New York Times, August 1, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/opinion/cruel-isolation-of-prisoners.html?src=recg

  Collin Dayan,“Barbarous Confinement,” New York Times, July 17, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/18/opinion/18dayan.html?_r=1

  Jack Dolan, “Indefinite solitary confinement persists in California prisons,” Los Angeles Times, September 5, 2011.

  http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep/05/local/la-me-solitary-confinement-20110906

  Daniel Ellsberg, “The Shameful Abuse of Bradley Manning,” CounterPunch, March 18–20, 2011. http://www.counterpunch.org/2011/03/18/the-shameful-abuse-of-bradley-manning/

  James Forman, Jr, “Exporting Harshness: How the War on Crime Helped Make the War on Terror Possible,” New York University Review of Law and Social Change, Vol. 33, No. 3, 2009

  Erica Goode “Prisoners Renew a Protest in California,” New York Times, September 29, 2011. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/30/us/california-prison-officials-move-to-contain-a-renewed-hunger-strike.html?hpw

  Lisa Hajjar, “Pvt Manning proves ‘slippery slope’,” Al Jazeera Online, March 15, 2011. http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2011/03/2011310153040668605.html

  Jane Hamsher, “Judge Napolitano on Bradley Manning and David House: ‘KGB-Like Government Tactics are Obscenely Un-American’,” FireDogLake Action, January 26, 2011. http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2011/01/26/judge-napolitano-on-bradley-manning-and-david house-kgb-like-government-tactics-are-obsceneley-un-american/

  Amelia Hill and Damian Pearse, “Bradley Manning case: British moral authority ‘at risk’,” The Guardian, April 4, 2011.

  http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/apr/04/bradley-manning-british-moral-authority

  Jules Lobel, “Prolonged Solitary Confinement and the Constitution,” University of Pennsylvania Journal of Constitutional Law, Vol. 11, No. 115, 2008

  Chase Madar, “All-American Gitmo,” TomDispatch, November 4, 2010. http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/175316/tomgram%3A_chase_madar,_all-american_gitmo/

  Sara Mayeux, “How Mississippi Opened,Then Closed, Its Most Notrious Prison Wing,” Atlantic Online, January 6, 2011.

  http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2011/01/how-mississippi-opened-then-closed-its-most-notorious-prison-wing/68942/

  Ed Pilkington, “Stripped naked every night, Bradley Manning tells of his prison ordeal
,” The Guardian, March 10, 2011. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar/11/stripped-naked-bradley-manning-prison?INTCMP=ILCNETTXT3487.

  “Prisoner Abuse: How Different Are U.S. Prisons?” Human Rights Watch, press release, May 13, 2004.

  James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, “The lonely battle against solitary confinement,” The Guardian, January 19, 2011.

  www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/jan/19/bradley-manning-wikileaks

  James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, “Cruel and usual: US solitary confinment,” Al Jazeera Online, March 19, 2011.

  http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2011/03/201137125936219469.html

  James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, “Beyond Guantánamo, There’s Long-Term Solitary Confinement in U.S. Prisons,” Solitary Watch, December 12, 2011.

  http://solitarywatch.com/2011/12/12/beyond guantanamo-theres-long-term-solitary-confinement-in-u-s-prisons/

  James Ridgeway and Jean Casella, “The Gitmos Next Door,” CounterPunch, January 12, 2012.

  http://www.counterpunch.org/2012/01/12/the-gitmos-next-door/

  Christopher S. Stewart, “Little Gitmo,” New York, July 10, 2011.

  http://nymag.com/news/features/yassin-aref-2011–7/

  Andy Worthington, “Is Bradley Manning Being Held as Some Sort of ‘Enemy Combatant’?” AndyWorthington.co.uk, December 20, 2010.

  http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/12/20/is-bradley-manning-being-held-as-some-sort-of-enemy-combatant/

  Bradley Manning and the Rule of Law

  Associated Press, “Panetta: US Troops in Iraq Must Have Immunity,” October 6, 2011. http://www.military.com/news/article/2011/panetta-us-troops-in-iraq-must-have-immunity.html

  Robyn E. Blumner, “Rumsfeld and the Rule of Law,” Tampa Bay Times, August 14, 2011. http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/columns/rumsfeld-and-the-rule-of-law/1185473

  Daniel H. Cole,“ ‘An Unqualified Human Good’: E. P.Thompson and the Rule of Law,” Journal of Law and Society, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2001)

  Alex Chadwick,“At Odds over U.S. to Torture by Iraqis,” National Public Radio, December 1, 2005, http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5034342