The passion of Bradley Manning: [the story of the suspect behind the largest security breach in U.S. history]

In May 2010, an intelligence analyst in the US Army's 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents, including the infamous "Collateral Murder" gunsight video and 260,000 State Department cables. After nine months in solitary confinement, the suspect now awaits court-martial in Fort Leavenworth. He is twenty-four, comes from Crescent, Oklahoma and his name is Bradley Manning. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Why did he allegedly commit the largest security breach in American history-and why was it so easy? Is Manning a traitor or a whistleblower? Is long-term isolation an outrage to American values-or the new norm? Are the leaks revolutionary or a sensational nonevent? Which is the greater security threat, routinized elite secrecy or flashes of transparency? And what impact does new information really have? The astonishing leaks attributed to Bradley Manning are viewed from many angles, from Tunisia to Guantánamo Bay, from Foggy Bottom to Baghdad to small-town Oklahoma. Around the world, the eloquent alleged act of one young man obliges citizens to ask themselves if they have the right to know what their government is doing. "In May 2010, a soldier in the U.S. Army's famed 10th Mountain Division was arrested on suspicion of leaking nearly half a million classified government documents. Who is Private First Class Bradley Manning? Is he a traitor, or a defender of the most traditional American values? The Passion of Bradley Manning examines disturbing trends in America -- increasing use of torture both at home and abroad; the pervasive sense of paranoia at high government levels; the fanatical secrecy of our foreign policy elite" -- Publisher's description. A medal for Bradley Manning The life of Bradley Manning The leaks Whistleblowers and their public The torture of Bradley Manning The rule of law and Bradley Manning Chronology.