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Chase Madar, member of the National Lawyers Guild, discusses his mock “Opening Statement for the Defense of Bradley Manning, Soldier and Patriot;” Manning’s disillusionment with US “democracy building” in Iraq, that amounted to repressing free speech and rounding up critics of government for detention and torture; a list of his alleged leaks, from the Collateral Murder video to the State Department “Cablegate,” that Americans have the right to know about; the obligation of soldiers to take action against inhumane treatment; the lack of evidence that Manning and Julian Assange have “blood on their hands;” and the long American tradition of patriotic whistleblowers from within the military.

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