Committing War Crimes is a Duty; Reporting Them is a Felony

Freedom In Our Time While serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, Manning sometimes felt as if he were “watching nonstop snuff films,” . His job consisted of sitting at a work station and evaluating Iraqis as targets. This meant “reducing a human being to a few salient points. Then he made a quick decision based on imperfect information: kill, capture, exploit, source.” In late 2009, Manning told a psychological counselor “about a targeting mission gone bad in Basra” in which an unambiguously innocent bystander was killed.



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