Treated Like 'a Caged Animal': Manning Breaks Silence in WikiLeaks Hearing
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November 30, 2012
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Published on Friday, November 30, 2012 by Wikileaks
Two Years of Cablegate and Bradley Manning Still Awaits Trial
by Julian Assange
Thursday, November 29th, Bradley Manning testified for the first time
since his arrest two and a half years ago in Baghdad. Today also
marks the two-year anniversary of the first front pages around the
world from Cablegate, an archive of 251,287 U.S. State Department
diplomatic cables -- messages sent between the State Department and
its embassies, consulates and diplomatic missions around the world.
In collaboration with a network of more than 100 press outlets we
revealed the full spectrum of techniques used by the United States to
exert itself around the world. The young intelligence analyst Bradley
Manning was detained as an alleged source.
WikiLeaks came under attack, with American politicians and right-wing
pundits calling for all of us to be designated as terrorists, some
even calling for my assassination and the kidnapping of our staff.
Speaking on Meet The Press, Vice President Joe Biden referred to me
as a "high-tech terrorist," while Senator Joe Lieberman demanded that
we be prosecuted under the U.S. Espionage Act. The Department of
Justice spokesperson Dean Boyd admitted as recently as July 2012 that
the Department of Justice investigation into WikiLeaks is ongoing,
and the Pentagon renewed its threats against us on September 28th,
declaring our work an "ongoing crime." As a result, I have been
granted political asylum and now live in the Ecuadorian embassy in
London, surrounded by armed police while the FBI portion of the
"whole of government" investigation against us, according to court
testimony, had reached 42,135 pages as of December last year.
Earlier this week, WikiLeaks released European Commission documents
showing that Senator Lieberman and Congressman Peter T. King directly
influenced decisions by PayPal, Visa and MasterCard to block
donations to WikiLeaks, which has blocked 95 percent of our donors
since December of 2010. Last week the European Parliament expressed
its will that the Commission should prevent the arbitrary blockade of
WikiLeaks.
Bradley Manning, who is alleged to be a source of the cables, started
testifying on Thursday about his pre-trial treatment, which UN
Special Rapporteur Juan Mendez said was "at a minimum cruel, inhuman
and degrading treatment in violation of Article 16 of the Convention
against Torture." Captain William Hoctor, the government psychiatrist
with 24 years of experience who evaluated Manning at Quantico base in
Virginia, testified that brig commanders had ignored his
recommendations for Manning's detention, something he had not even
experienced in his work at Guantánamo bay prison.
Bradley Manning has been detained without trial for 921 days. This is
the longest pre-trial detention of a U.S. military soldier since at
least the Vietnam War. U.S. military law says the maximum is 120 days.
The material that Bradley Manning is alleged to have leaked has
highlighted astonishing examples of U.S. subversion of the democratic
process around the world, systematic evasion of accountability for
atrocities and killings, and many other abuses. Our archive of State
Department cables have appeared in tens of thousands of articles,
books and scholarly works, illustrating the nature of U.S. foreign
policy and the instruments of U.S. national power. On the two-year
anniversary of the start of Cablegate, I want to highlight some of
the stories that have emerged.
A War of Terror
The United States' War on Terror has claimed hundreds of thousands of
lives, inflamed sectarian violence, and made a mockery of
international law. Victims and their families struggle to have their
stories acknowledged, and the U.S.' systematic avoidance of
accountability for war crimes implicitly denies their right to be
considered human beings. Moreover, as the U.S. increasingly relies on
clandestine military operations conducted outside the scrutiny of
government oversight, the execution of this expanding War on Terror
becomes increasingly uncoupled from the democratic process. While
President Obama had promised the American people in 2008 that he
would end the Iraq War, U.S. troops were only withdrawn when
information from a cable revived international scrutiny of abuse
occurring in Iraq, resulting in a refusal to grant continued immunity
to U.S. troops in 2012 or beyond.
In 2007 the U.S. embassy in Baghdad obtained a copy of the Iraqi
government's final investigation report on the massacre of 17
civilians on September 16th, 2007 in Nisour Square. The report
concluded that the incident was an unprovoked attack on unarmed
civilians, asked for $8 million in compensation for each death and $4
million for each injury, and demanded that the private security firm
Blackwater be replaced within six months. Blackwater continued to
operate in Iraq for two years afterwards, and the U.S. Embassy
compensated victims with $10,000 for each death and $5,000 for each
injury. Five years later, the offending Blackwater mercenaries have
escaped from accountability to Iraq, and attempts to bring them to
justice in the U.S. have resulted in a long chain of dismissed cases
and one undisclosed settlement. WikiLeaks' Iraq War Logs release of
391,832 U.S. Army field reports uncovered 14 additional cases where
Blackwater opened fire on civilians, along with numerous other
incidents of abuse. The Iraq War Logs also showed how the United
States handed over prisoners to be tortured in gruesome detail --
stories of electrocution, mutilation and of victims being attacked
with drills.
The fact that, five years on, the victims of the Nisour Square
Massacre have seen no meaningful accountability is an atrocity. But
it is unfortunately no surprise that the U.S. claims immunity for its
forces in other countries, then fails to administer justice at home.
These events -- and in particular one cable detailing the summary
execution of 10 Iraqi civilians, including four women and five
children -- by U.S. soldiers and a subsequent airstrike to cover up
the evidence, forced the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2011. The story
of handcuffed execution and cover-up sparked outrage around the world
in the midst of negotiations to extend U.S. troop presence into 2012
and, in response to international coverage, Iraq revived its
investigation into the incident. Iraq ultimately refused to grant
immunity to U.S. troops in 2012, forcing the U.S. to withdraw in
December 2011.
This systemic violence and cover-up extends to the war in
Afghanistan. When news emerged that a midnight bombing campaign on
the Afghan village of Granai in 2009 had possibly resulted in the
death of up to 100 civilians, U.S. officials publicly asserted that
most of the dead had been Taliban fighters. A State Department cable
written shortly after the event summarizes a meeting between the Red
Cross' Afghanistan chief Reto Stocker and U.S. Ambassador Carl
Eikenberry in which they discussed findings from an investigation of
the event. In the cable, Stocker is referred to as "one of the most
credible sources for unbiased and objective information in
Afghanistan." The Red Cross report estimated that 89 of the dead and
13 injured were in fact civilians. Neither the U.S. government nor
the Red Cross publicly revealed these figures.
WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring
The Tunisian cables describe the extreme corruption and lack of
transparency of the Ben Ali regime. The Ben Ali extended family are
described as the worst offenders, their lavish life accompanied by "a
wide-range of corrupt schemes," including "property expropriation and
extortion of bribes." We also learned that Ben Ali family assets
included an airline, several hotels and a radio station. One cable
describes state censorship of Tunisia's only private broadcast
satellite TV station, and a surprise tax judgment against the station
of almost $1.5 million.
In its 2011 annual report, Amnesty International praised WikiLeaks
and its media partners for catalyzing the revolution in Tunisia:
"While the 'Jasmine Revolution' in Tunisia would not have happened
without the long struggle of brave human rights defenders over the
last two decades, support for activists from outside the country may
have been strengthened as people scrutinized the WikiLeaks documents
on Tunisia and understood the roots of the anger. In particular, some
of the documents made clear that countries around the world were
aware of both the political repression and the lack of economic
opportunity, but for the most part were not taking action to urge
change."
When Tunisia's president Moncef Marzouki spoke with me on The World
Tomorrow, he thanked WikiLeaks for its work, saying, "I am very
grateful for all that you have done for promoting human rights,
truth, and I admire and support your efforts."
Shortly following Tunisia's revolution, protests erupted in Libya,
and a new batch of cables revealed the strategic calculations behind
U.S. support of the Gaddafi regime. In Egypt, cables revealed that
Mubarak would rather die in office than step down and that his son
would likely succeed him. Then, just as evidence emerged that Vice
President Suleiman was tipped to replace Mubarak, cables were
released detailing his former role as intelligence chief, as well as
his close ties to Israel. Such elements became a crucial part of the
ongoing Egyptian uprising.
A Global Death Squad Consulting Firm?
For years, WikiLeaks faced a chorus of accusations by U.S. officials
and right-wing pundits of making the world a less-safe place, and of
having potentially caused harm through publication of embarrassing
secrets. In reality, the cables show that torture and killing are not
isolated events, but the violent manifestations of an aggressive
policy of coercion used by the United States in the pursuit of its
strategic commercial and political goals around the world.
While U.S. law bans the training of military units with a history of
human rights violations, in practice the law is easily and often
circumvented. The Indonesian army's elite special forces unit
KOPASSUS has brutally repressed the West Papuans' freedom movement
(West Papua has been occupied by Indonesia since 1963), as has been
extensively documented by Human Rights Watch. Despite this, U.S.
diplomats in Jakarta judged in 2007 that the time had come to resume
collaboration with KOPASSUS, for the sake of "commercial interest"
and "the protection of U.S. officials."
A diplomatic cable from November 2009 mentions as a side note that
right-wing paramilitaries in Colombia were responsible for the death
of 257,089 victims, a figure well above the estimations of local
human rights activists. The U.S. has nonetheless offered generous
support to the Colombian military; Amnesty International, which has
called for a complete cut-off of U.S. military aid to Colombia, has
estimated that total U.S. aid in 2006 amounted to $728 million, of
which 80 percent was given to military and police assistance. As of
2012, U.S. military support to Colombia is ongoing.
Such examples illustrate the United States' liberal interpretation of
the laws banning the training of military units with a history of
human rights violations. In another cable from August 2008, U.S.
officials acknowledge that the Bangladeshi death squad, the Rapid
Action Battalion (RAB), has been involved in obvious human rights
violations, making support for the RAB difficult -- U.S. officials
hoped, however, to improve the RAB's record and polish its public
image. U.S. officials praised the RAB for having "succeeded in
reducing crime and fighting terrorism, making it in many ways
Bangladesh's most respected police unit." In a diplomatic cable from
2009, it was also revealed that the UK had been training the RAB for
the previous 18 months "in areas such as investigative interviewing
techniques and rules of engagement."
Foreign Service Spies
In 2009, Hillary Clinton sent an intelligence gathering directive to
33 embassies and consulates around the world. The directive asked
diplomats to gather intelligence on UN officials, including credit
card numbers and online handles. A similar cable requested
intelligence on officials from the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Burundy, Rwanda and Uganda, and specifically mentioned the collection
of DNA samples, iris scans and computer passwords.
Another state department cable revealed that a mole within the German
government was spying for the U.S. Embassy in Berlin, frequently
updating U.S. officials on negotiations between Merkel's conservative
Christian Democrats and Westerwelle's FDP on the formation of a new
coalition government in 2009. Helmut Metzner, formerly chief of staff
to Germany's foreign minister, admitted to being the mole mentioned
in these cables when this story broke in the press, and was
subsequently fired.
Lobbying for Unaccountability -- Manipulation of Judicial Process in
Other Countries
Abuse that occurs in war, as it did in Iraq, is often dismissed by
its perpetrators as exceptional, and we are often assured that when
abuse has occurred, the accountability mechanisms in place will bring
justice. The diplomatic cables have given us numerous concrete
examples of the coercion used by the U.S. to manipulate and undermine
judicial processes in other countries, and they establish a clear
policy for the evasion of accountability in any form.
During the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, two journalists -- including
the Spanish journalist José Couso -- were killed and three others
were wounded when a U.S. tank fired on the Palestine Hotel in
Baghdad. An investigation into the event was subsequently launched in
Spain, and an international arrest warrant was issued for three U.S.
soldiers involved. Cables showed that the U.S. aggressively fought to
have Spanish officials drop the case. Writing about the case in one
cable, U.S. Ambassador Eduardo Aguirre emphasizes: "While we are
careful to show our respect for the tragic death of Couso and for the
independence of the Spanish judicial system, behind the scenes we
have fought tooth and nail to make the charges disappear."
Shamefully, this quote was redacted in the original reporting on the
subject from El Pais and Le Monde.
In another example from 2003, a German citizen of Lebanese origins,
Kalid el-Masri, was kidnapped while on vacation in Macedonia,
renditioned to Afghanistan by the CIA, and tortured for four months.
When his captors finally decided he was innocent, he was flown to
Albania and dumped on a country road without so much as an apology.
In a cable from 2007, we learn that when a German prosecutor issued
arrest warrants for agents involved in el-Masri's kidnapping, the
U.S. ambassador in Berlin warned German officials that there would be
repercussions. No arrests have yet been made and el-Masri is still
seeking justice.
The U.S.' manipulation extended to the UK, where a cable shows that
during a British public inquiry led by Sir John Chilcot into the UK
role in the Iraq War, the Ministry of Defence had "put measures in
place" to protect U.S. interests.
Global Powers Work to Break Environmental Solidarity, and to Exploit
"Opportunities" of Climate Change
On environmental issues, cables show that the U.S. routinely makes
symbolic gestures rather than initiating substantial practices to
combat climate change, and works aggressively to tailor international
agreements to its own commercial interests.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asked embassies to gather
intelligence on the preparations for the Copenhagen UN Convention on
Climate Change Meeting in December 2009, asking for biographical
details of representatives from China, France, Japan, Mexico, Russia
and the European Union. Cables show that in Copenhagen the U.S.
manipulated the accord talks by offering "gifts" to poorer countries
to derail opposition to the accord proposed by first world powers.
Another cable from the Secretary of State revealed that in 2010, a
Maldives ambassador designate had stressed the importance of
"tangible assistance" from larger economies to smaller ones. As a
consequence of this meeting, the accord offered financial
compensation to poor countries suffering from the effects of global
warming.
In a visit to Canada in 2009 David Goldwyn, the State Department's
Coordinator for International Energy Affairs discussed public
relations assistance to be offered to the oil sands industry. Goldwyn
proposed consulting experts, scholars and think tanks to "increase
visibility and accessibility of more positive news stories." The
cable was later used by environmentalists in their battle against the
Keystone XL pipeline, which ships crude oil across the U.S.-Canada
border. In early 2012, President Obama rejected the Keystone XL
pipeline proposal, but recently publicly announced support for
another proposal. It also turns out that Goldwyn eventually went on
to work for Sutherland, a lobbying group in favor of Keystone XL.
The cables also reveal that the U.S. is carefully positioning itself
to take advantage of new opportunities for harvesting hydrocarbons
and minerals from the Arctic as climate change melts polar ice. U.S.
diplomats were hoping to offer Greenland support for its independence
from Denmark in exchange for access by American gas and oil companies
to exploit the country's resources. The U.S. has been closely
watching Russia, America's main competitor for Arctic resources, but
American officials also showed concern over Canada's potential
territorial claim to the Arctic's Northwest passage.
Secret Agreements -- Circumvention of the Democratic Process
The State Department cables revealed that the United States and its
allies systematically make secret arrangements with various
governments, hiding details not only from the country's public, but
sometimes even from the country's representatives, ministers and
oversight bodies.
In 2009, Jeremy Scahill and Seymour Hersh broke a story in The Nation
on secret U.S. special operations forces combat missions and drone
strikes in Pakistan. When questioned about the story, Department of
Defense spokesperson Geoff Morrell dismissed the claims as
"conspiratorial theories." Only one year later, cables released by
WikiLeaks confirmed their story. In addition, cables quoted
Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani telling U.S. officials:
"I don't care if they do it as long as they get the right people --
we'll protest about it in the National Assembly and then ignore it."
Stories based on State Department cables also revealed agreements
between the U.S. and Yemen in which the Yemeni government would claim
responsibility for attacks launched by the U.S. on local militia
groups. The release of State Department cables resulted in total
transparency with respect to certain aspects of the War on Terror.
State Department cables also revealed that the U.S. worked with
Australia to weaken the text of an international agreement banning
the use of cluster munitions -- bombs which spray thousands of
smaller bomblets over a large area. Out of more than 13,000
casualties of cluster munitions registered by Handicap International,
over 98 percent are civilian and one-third of those are children.
Despite this, cables also revealed that the UK's then-Foreign
Minister David Miliband secretly approved the use of a legal loophole
to allow the United States to store cluster munitions on UK
territory, despite the fact that the UK is a signatory to a
convention banning them. The United States is not a signatory to the
Convention on Cluster Munitions, and even attempted in 2011 to have
the ban lifted by the UN.
In 2007, former Canadian Deputy Prime Minister John Manley asked U.S.
officials for predator drones to help shore up liberal support for a
sustained Canadian presence in the war in Afghanistan. At the time,
Manley was leading a government-appointed panel charged with
investigating Canada's interests in a future role in Afghanistan. In
August 2012, the Ottawa Citizen reported that the Canadian government
is seeking to spend up to $1 billion on a state-of-the-art armed
drone fleet.
The cables also revealed that Canada's conservative Prime Minister
Stephen Harper secretly promised NATO in January 2010 that Canada
would remain in Afghanistan to conduct army training even after the
end of its mission in 2011. The Canadian public was shocked when the
government announced that it would be extending its mission in
November of that year. Harper expressed concern to U.S. diplomats
that an early departure of Canadian troops from Aghanistan would seem
like a "withdrawal," reflecting the low public support for Canada's
mission in Afghanistan.
In 2008, the U.S. proposed an "informal agreement" to Swedish
government officials for the exchange of information on terrorism
watch-lists. U.S. officials explained that they feared scrutiny by
the Swedish parliament would jeopardize "law enforcement and
anti-terrorism cooperation." Cables also revealed that in 2009, the
U.S. resumed full intelligence-sharing with New Zealand after it had
been restricted in retaliation for the country's ban against
nuclear-powered or armed vessels in its ports. Both governments
agreed that the newly resumed cooperation should be kept hidden from
the public.
The Realpolitik of Commercial Lobbying
State Department cables illustrate that U.S. officials and their
commercial partners take a default position of having an intrinsic
right to resources and market dominance around the world.
In a 2007 cable to the U.S. Trade Representative, U.S. Ambassador
Craig Stapleton suggested taking a hard-line approach towards the
European Union over its resistance to American genetically modified
products and foods. France's refusal to embrace GMOs and agricultural
biotechnology, according to Ambassador Stapleton, would lead to a
general European rejection of GMOs, and he suggested retaliation to
help the French see things differently:
"Country team Paris recommends that we calibrate a target retaliation
list that causes some pain across the EU since this is a collective
responsibility, but that also focuses in part on the worst culprits.
The list should be measured rather than vicious and must be
sustainable over the long term, since we should not expect an early
victory."
The cables also showed that the U.S. revoked visas of then-Ecuadoran
presidential candidate Xavier Neira and seven others due to their
involvement in a legal case against the American pharmaceutical
company Pfizer for unfair competition. The timing of the decision to
revoke their visas coincided with the upcoming presidential elections
and an impending court decision on the case. In its explanation of
the revocation, officials cite "corruption" and the case against
Pfizer.
The U.S.-based Shell Oil company has a long and sordid history in
Nigeria, and its representatives spoke openly about activities in the
country. In a 2009 meeting, Shell representatives told U.S. officials
that they would be able to influence the Nigerian government's 2009
Petroleum Industry Bill to suit their interests.
Cables from 2005 highlight U.S. determination to "improve the
investment climate" for mining companies in Peru. Representatives
from Canada, UK, Australia, Switzerland and South Africa met to
strategize ways of circumventing anti-mining protests coming from a
diverse group of NGOs, the Catholic Church and indigenous Peruvians.
Once protests had turned violent, the U.S. used this as an excuse for
monitoring NGO groups such as Oxfam and Friends of the Earth, and
asked the Peruvian government to enhance security by taking control
of roadways and transit areas.
In other cases, officials in the U.S. Embassy assisted in lobbying
for or against particular pieces of legislation according to U.S.
commercial interests. U.S. officials lobbied on behalf of Visa and
MasterCard against a bill in Russia which would have created a
national card payment system, taking away Visa and MasterCard's
market share.
Strategic Duplicity on Human Rights and Press Freedom
A cable summarizing a meeting with a director of Al Jazeera shows
that U.S. officials expected a special report with graphic images of
injured Iraqis to be changed and its images removed. In another
cable, the director is asked to explain Al Jazeera's lack of coverage
of the Iran elections and protests as opposed to their "heavy"
coverage of Gaza.
The U.S. Navy's Fifth Fleet is based in the kingdom of Bahrain, and
the U.S. has maintained a mutually beneficial relationship with the
country's leaders over the past years. In one cable, the U.S.
ambassador to Bahrain praised the country and its king, pointing out
that U.S. companies had won major contracts there. This same regime
brutally cracked down on protesters during the Arab Spring, and
Bahraini authorities shut down dissident websites and publications.
While the U.S. State Department harshly condemned the crackdown on
protests after Iran's 2009 elections, it remained silent on the
killings in Bahrain.
Thailand's Monarchy Exposed
Thailand's lèse majesté law prevents anyone in the country from
speaking openly about the monarchy without risk of severe punishment.
As such, any reports about political developments in the country are
censored, and there is a huge gap in public knowledge about the
country's political environment. WikiLeaks' release of State
Department cables gives an unprecedented view of not only the
monarchy's deep impact on the politics of the country, but also the
close relationship that Thailand had with the U.S. Journalist Andrew
MacGregor Marshall quit his job at Reuters to write his book
Thailand's Moment of Truth, using the Thai cables exposing obscured
and taboo aspects of Thailand's politics, history and international
relations for the first time.
U.S. Aims to Reshape Global Views and Law on Intellectual Property
and Copyright
U.S.-based lobbying groups work hand in hand with U.S. State
Department officials around the world to aggressively lobby for
legislation and trade agreements that favor American companies such
as Google, Facebook, Apple and Microsoft, or large film studios such
as Disney, Paramount, Sony and Warner.
A 2006 cable from Japan describes the first draft proposals for a
"gold standard" in intellectual property rights enforcement, called
ACTA. This standard was meant to give intellectual property owners
much stronger powers, even at the expense of citizen privacy and due
process. ACTA was subsequently negotiated in secret, unknown to the
general public, until WikiLeaks leaked the first draft in 2008. In
the film industry, the lobbyist group for motion picture studios
conspired with their Australian counterpart to establish a legal
precedent for holding an Internet service provider accountable for
copyright infringement in Australia. What is the effect of this push
and pull? It is a global environment where legislation and legal
precedents are set to benefit intellectual property owners who are
rich, powerful and influential -- even at the expense of public good.
Breaking the Monopoly on Influence
The examples I present above represent only a small fraction of what
has been revealed by WikiLeaks material. Since 2010, Western
governments have tried to portray WikiLeaks as a terrorist
organization, enabling a disproportionate response from both
political figures and private institutions. It is the case that
WikiLeaks' publications can and have changed the world, but that
change has clearly been for the better. Two years on, no claim of
individual harm has been presented, and the examples above clearly
show precisely who has blood on their hands.
In large Western democracies, the political discourse has been so
highly controlled for so long, that it is no longer shocking when
Western experts fill in to speak for third world victims, or when an
American president stands up at a podium to accept his Nobel Peace
Prize, and makes the case for war. It is, in fact, no longer safe to
presume that a media outlet such as The New York Times would perform
the same act today as they did in 1971 when Daniel Ellsberg leaked
the Pentagon Papers.
In a panel discussion with Daniel Ellsberg and New York Times editor
Jill Abramson discussing the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg voiced his
dissent over the Times' acquiescence to the Bush administration's
request to delay James Risen's story on warrantless NSA wiretapping
until after the 2004 elections. Abramson equivocated:
"The thing is when the government says -- you know -- by publishing a
story you're harming the national security, you're helping the
terrorists. I mean, there are still people today who argue that the
NSA program was the crown jewel, the most valuable anti-terrorism
program that the Bush administration had going, and that it was
terribly wrong of the Times to publish."
On the same panel, Daniel Ellsberg said of the Pentagon Papers:
"The secrecy of these documents has so far condemned over 30,000
Americans to death and several million Vietnamese. And the continued
secrecy of them will undoubtedly contribute to the death of tens of
thousands more Americans, and so forth. I think that's true. But that
comes up in the WikiLeaks case, right now."
Since the release of the diplomatic cables, WikiLeaks has continued
its operations despite the financial blockade, publishing leaked
documents from companies selling mass interception units to state spy
agencies around the world; detainee profiles for almost all of the
people detained at Guantánamo Bay prison; U.S. policy manuals for
detention of military prisoners in the War on Terror; intelligence
databases from the private intelligence firm Stratfor; and millions
of documents from inside the Syrian government. The information we've
disclosed frustrates the controlled political discourse that is
trumpeted by establishment media and Western governments to shape
public perception.
We will continue our fight against the financial blockade, and we
will continue to publish. The Pentagon's threats against us do the
United States a disservice and will not be heeded.
© 2012 Julian Assange
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