chelsea manning on the US

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‘We largely live in a domestic military occupation’ – Chelsea Manning
manning:https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/364910/we-largely-live-in-a-domestic-military-occupation-chelsea-manning

“…There was no way to internally address her concerns with the US military’s presence in Iraq, she said.

“A lot of people outside of government and the military don’t realise this but the official channels, the proper channels if you will, are actually a weapon, they are tools that are used against you. There’s actually a programme called the Insider Threat Programme.

“If you raise suspicions or you raise doubts or you raise concerns about something, you are automatically flagged for investigation by the Insider Threat Programme and that can bring administrative measures, it can bring you administrative scrutiny, it can mean surveillance by counter intelligence, it can mean being fired or being moved to a different position where you don’t have access to things,” she said.

“The official channels are the most dangerous that you can go to.”

After struggling to find an outlet to go through, despite reaching out to big media outlets, she released the documents through Wikileaks, which was in a very embryonic state, she said.

“There was a technology barrier that I think is important, this was 2010, there wasn’t a significant understanding of encryption and the importance of protecting your digital data and how vulnerable plain text communications actually are.

“I made the decision that I made at the time based on the very limited tools that I had and also the timeframe that I had, I was running out of time.”

Initially set to lead to a life in prison….see link…”