The Latest Breaking News from Chelsea Manning

The subject matter may differ but the US government has been relentless in pursuing those accused of national security leaks

This latest cache of secret documents is yet another own goal by a pathologically confused security service, says barrister Frank Ledwidge

The world’s media was predictably alive last weekend with speculation about Jack Teixeira, the young US guardsman who was charged in a case involving leaked confidential US defence and intelligence documents. The actual charge levelled against the 21-year-old Airman First Class is the “unauthorised retention and transmission of national defence…

The establishment has tried to sanitize Ellsberg. But his lessons on the madness of war are even more relevant now

Call them whistleblowers or traitors, call their actions conscientious or unconscionable, the people who decide on their own to share classified material have often altered the course of events.

The leak of highly classified Pentagon documents has forced defence officials into the online worlds of gamers, meme lords and their leagues of followers, and exposed an unavoidable weakness in US national security.

The gaping holes that Chelsea Manning and Edward Snowden poked into what America assumed were secure, firewalled troves of classified data taught Washington a sobering lesson about the importance of keeping secrets leakproof.

Manning first came to public scrutiny and was incarcerated for leaking classified information. She aims to use that attention to shed light on the struggles trans people face in U.S. prisons.

Official secrets keep proliferating.

What happened to whistleblowers like our client Daniel Hale never happens to high-level government officials

Ad-hoc tribunal of legal experts and supporters pressures US administration to drop ‘attack on press freedom’