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What Chelsea Manning revealed

Aug. 16 2011

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• There is an official policy to ignore torture in Iraq.
• U.S. officials were told to cover up evidence of child abuse by contractors in Afghanistan.
• Guantanamo prison has held mostly innocent people and low-level operatives.
• There is an official tally of civilian deaths in Iraq and Afghanistan.
• U.S. Military officials withheld information about the indiscriminate killing of Reuters journalists and innocent Iraqi civilians.
• The State Department backed corporate opposition to a Haitian minimum wage law.
• The U.S. Government had long been faking its public support for Tunisian President Ben Ali.
• Known Egyptian torturers received training from the FBI in Quantico, Virginia.
• The State Department authorized the theft of the UN Secretary General’s DNA.
• The Japanese and U.S. Governments had been warned about the seismic threat at Fukushima.
• The Obama Administration allowed Yemen’s President to cover up a secret U.S. drone bombing campaign.