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Title: Chelsea Manning and the War Crimes of Empire
Published: 2017-01-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrgTmrfCkc
Title: Chelsea Manning and the War Crimes of Empire
Published: 2017-01-26
Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2HrgTmrfCkc
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on January seventeenth outgoing president Barack Obama commuted the prison cell Chelsea manning in two thousand and ten the army analyst was convicted of leaking seven hundred thousand documents videos diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts manning subsequently received a thirty five year prison sentence Obama said justice was served in manning sentence was disproportionate retired general David Petraeus for instance received two years probation and a fine for disclosing2/33
classified documents to his biographer and mistress Chelsea manning as served a tough prison sentence so the notion that %HESITATION the average person who was thinking about disclosing %HESITATION vital classified information would think that it goes unpunished %HESITATION %HESITATION I don't think would get that impression from the sentence %HESITATION bad Chelsea manning has served the establishment media has paid little attention to the content of the manning3/33
weak and virtually ignored it when they report on Obama's decision the documents cover a wide variety of topics including the US backed Honduras coup US support for engineered Arab spring revolts the infiltration of the Nigerian government by shell oil forcing Europe to accept genetically modified foods and the widespread use of US diplomats have spies abroad the documents also expose how the United States has waged war4/33
against the people of Iraq and Afghanistan the Iraq war largest continually four hundred thousand military field reports reports show how the military covered up a large number of civilian deaths and often counted civilians as combatants repeating what was done by the military in Vietnam during the first Gulf War general Schwarzkopf said the Pentagon would no longer ask me casualties as a measure of success and deft5/33
figures were not released to the media or the public statistics point to at least one million Iraqi deaths two hundred twenty thousand Afghans and eighty thousand dead in pockets to now the report makes clear however that these are conservative estimates and that the true number can be as high as two million people the authors and that previous numbers were lower and often conflicting because they were6/33
based on methods of determining death tolls known as passive methods this means relying on official military records reports from more eggs and physician statistics now compounded with crumbling medical infrastructures these methods lack the ability to see the bigger picture and by this we mean that given the way war is waged today drone strikes secret raids carpet bombings it's very difficult to get an accurate sense of7/33
casualties the authors say this report is a more extensive look at the true scope of the human cost of the war on terror on April fifth two thousand and ten wikileaks released the classified video included in the week the video was shot from an Apache helicopter gun sight in July two thousand and seven it clearly shows the unprovoked killing of a wounded writers employee and his8/33
rescuers eleven people were killed and two young children involved in the rescue were seriously wounded the Pentagon refused to release the video after writers demanded an investigation and filed a freedom of information act request the military leader said the murder of journalists and civilians was in accordance with its rules of engagement and all the people killed were listed as enemies killed in action between two thousand9/33
and three and two thousand and nine one hundred and thirty nine journalists were killed in Iraq %HESITATION there one o'clock apparently they think than planned once you get on that over you know I gotta look out for pizza and a long learn when they find out I have all of come on fired up and I didn't if you top if you keep what about that thing10/33
we need to move in time now all eight individuals fire but I don't certainly with mobile we got Balfour dialogue sorry but I think it might have another incident analyze but the bureau of investigative journalism an Apache attack helicopter killed Iraqi insurgents attempted to surrender this was a violation of article three of the Geneva Conventions that prohibits violence against persons regarded as or day Kalmbach or11/33
no longer combatants US soldiers manning checkpoints in Iraq if killed seven hundred civilians including pregnant women and the mentally ill at least a half dozen incidents involved Iraqi man transporting pregnant family members to hospitals Iraqi civilians were also killed during raids in homes fill your checkpoints was demonstrated in two thousand and five when enough Tallien intelligence officer Nicola Calipari was shot dead a checkpoint in Baghdad12/33
reports also show how the military failed to investigate hundreds of reports of abuse torture rape and murder by Iraqi police and soldiers under the control of the coalition between two thousand five and two thousand and twelve Iraqi security forces received around twenty six billion dollars from the U. S. government however according to what's known as the leading a law the U. S. is verbatim from funding13/33
foreign armies if credible evidence emerges that they have violated human rights in addition to the Iraqi government killing political opponents report shown numerous instances of abuse by contractors in one instance Blackwater mercenaries fired indiscriminately on civilians after an IED attack in another a Blackwater contractors shot up a civilian vehicle killing a father and wounding his wife and daughter in two thousand seven black water mercenaries killed14/33
seventeen people and injured twenty others in the sewer square in Baghdad in two thousand and fourteen four Blackwater employees were tried and convicted in US federal court one of murder and the other three of manslaughter and firearms charges representative Jan Schakowsky who's on the %HESITATION they select intelligence committee %HESITATION since two thousand four when I've been talking to her about this issue of contractors she's been15/33
trying to get information just tell me how many contractors that are in Iraq tell me how many contracts we have in excess of five million dollars tell me how many of them killed coming out many of have been wounded tell me how many investigations are open at the justice department no answers to any of these questions and so for years I you have but several Congress16/33
people some of them in influential positions who've been unable to get any information about the operations of these companies the documents show widespread torture under Frigo to forty two a Pentagon issued fragmentary order the order kept torture of Iraqi detainee secret the torture was carried out by the wolf brigade I feared second battalion of the Interior Ministry special commandos it's US military adviser had previously worked17/33
with the death squads in El Salvador one of the things that's come out of these reports that I think ought to be followed through is torture on who's responsible for torture there's some very sinister entries about the wolf brigade this was a special commando unit under the charge of the minister of the interior in Iraq %HESITATION it went out and the cooling people maybe some insurgents18/33
and it appears to have tortured and executed them on a pretty routine basis sometimes with horrific torches and will be hanging out people like school to dear old or drilling into the knee caps with electric drills on a state level of of horror %HESITATION what is alarming is that the law it is that you S. advices were sitting in the room with these people %HESITATION that19/33
well documented accounts of a U. S. military adviser colonel James steel %HESITATION being with the wolf brigade in the town of Samarra when they brought in prisoners you %HESITATION a New York times journalist could hear them screaming in pain and terror outside while he was in the room were with steel now the question is that arises from that ought to be followed through I think by20/33
choir is in America is who is giving the orders still is a man who was answerable again to people for other appears answerable to general Petraeus he's probably on triple to %HESITATION doldrums found about time these are the questions that arise in the box in the questions about the wolf brigade on questions about barbarism in Iraq that questions about Bob reason the United States more than21/33
ninety thousand reports have been posted online by the website wikileaks G. cells of individual operations by NATO troops it's the biggest lake the US military has faced since the Vietnam War the documents that today's between two thousand and four and two thousand and nine include potentially damaging information about the secret task force sends out to kill Taliban leaders without trial on July twenty fifth two thousand22/33
and ten wikileaks posted the Afghan war diary a collection of secret internal Pentagon logs in documents the documents revealed information on the deaths of civilians increased Taliban attacks and involvement by Pakistan and Iran in the insurgency against the US occupation establishment media focused on cooperation between the Taliban and Pakistan's intelligence agency the I. SI the CIA and the ISI work together to create the Taliban after23/33
the CIA supported Mujo Aidid ran the Soviets out of Afghanistan when Davies of the state department said he saw nothing objectionable in the Taliban's plans to impose strict Islamic law senator Hank brown chair of the Senate foreign relations subcommittee on the Near East and South Asia welcome the new regime as did California based Unocal corporation it wanted to build a four point five billion dollar oil24/33
and gas pipeline from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan to Pakistan less attention was paid to the number of Afghans killed by US soldiers reports reveal hundreds of deaths at the hands of coalition forces in one incident a US patrol machine gunned a boss wounding or killing fifteen of its passengers and another known as the Xinhua are shooting US marines opened fire on civilians after witnessing a suicide bomb25/33
and supposedly coming under small arms fire nineteen unarmed civilians were killed and fifteen wounded in two thousand and seven CI a paramilitary shot and killed a deaf man that didn't hear their warnings another document created that same year details how US special forces dropped six two thousand pound bombs on the compound where they said a high value individual was hiding the bombs killed three hundred civilians26/33
install the Afghan president Hamid Karzai lodged a public protest over the way the Pentagon was treating Afghan civilians the report also reveals an effort to cover up the activity of task force three seventy three a joint military commando unit involved in covert warfare the task force abducted Afghans engaged in operation Phoenix like assassinations it was so secret that wasn't even discussed with coalition partners Obama's Chelsea27/33
manning decision was opposed by Republicans and other critics outgoing defense secretary Ashton Carter said he doesn't support the release of manning house speaker Paul Ryan senators John McCain and Marco Rubio and others said the decision compromise national security Rubio went so far as to accuse Obama of siding with lawbreakers the media have an excellent chance to revisit the Iraq war logs and the Afghan war diary28/33
after Obama announced his decision on manning the New York times mentioned the revelations in passing and concluded the leaks were harmful to government others highlighted manning's trans gender status the role of the establishment media is to underplay the crimes committed by the US government in Iraq Afghanistan Libya Syria and elsewhere either through a mission store shin or outright lies in fabrication the establishment propaganda media has29/33
induced a sort of amnesia by refusing to put events into their proper historical and political context prior to the legendary Pentagon whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg and a new generation of whistleblowers we had no way of knowing what the military and foreign policy establishment we're doing our names Obama was at the forefront of the establishment's war on whistleblowers his administration prosecuted eight people under the espionage act including30/33
journalists in Texas investigating defense contractors the New York times displayed remarkable candor when it said Obama was the greatest threat to the first amendment in a generation others say about our presided over the most draconian crackdown on national security intelligence whistle blowers in U. S. history claim the wikileaks revelations about Hillary Clinton help get Donald Trump elected trump however is not a friend of whistleblowers in31/33
two thousand and ten he said wikileaks is disgraceful and whistleblower should face the death penalty trump is also called for the former NSA contractor Edward Snowden to be extradited and prosecuted for treason he went so far as to say he should be at this guy is a bad guy and you know there is still a thing called execution you you really have to it you ought32/33
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