Louis Theroux Interviews Chelsea Manning on BBC Two review: the best episode of the series
by Daniel Keane
Dec 05, 2023
3 minutes
In February 2010, sent WikiLeaks a short video. The clip, entitled “Collateral Murder”, showed two American Apache helicopters opening fire on a group of Iraqi civilians and two Reuters journalists. When the website published the footage two months later, it became a defining moment in America’s War on Terror: revealing the horror inflicted on innocent people in the name of western democracy.Manning, now 35, went on to leak an enormous trove of military reports, videos, diplomatic cables and battlefield accounts to WikiLeaks while she was commuted her sentence.
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