Bradley Manning's bad dream
Private Manning was working as an army intelligence analyst at Forward Operating Base Hammer in Iraq when he apparently went rogue, allegedly funnelling to Wikileaks hundreds of thousands of diplomatic communications and battlefield reports from Iraq and Afghanistan, none more shocking than the video of an Apache helicopter crew gunning down a group of men in Bagdad - two of whom turned out to be a Reuters news photographer and his driver.
Supporters like Daniel Ellsberg, the former US military analyst who precipitated a national political controversy in 1971 when he released the top secret Pentagon Papers revealing US government decision-making in relation to the Vietnam War, see Bradley Manning as a hero who only wanted to reveal the truth. But the US military regard him as a traitor who endangered national security.
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