Février 2010, Chelsea Manning, analyste du renseignement militaire américaine déployée en Irak, divulgue des centaines de milliers de documents militaires classifiés. Elle les envoie à WikiLeaks. La déflagration est internationale. Son courage saisit le monde entier.
Chelsea Manning devient la première lanceuse d'alerte de notre temps.
Née en 1987 dans l'Oklahoma dans une famille modeste et troublée, elle nous dévoile son adolescence tourmentée, les raisons qui l'ont conduite à s'engager dans l'armée, et les coulisses de sa lutte pour la transparence de l'information.
Ses Mémoires poignants, au ton et à l'analyse exceptionnellement justes, offrent l'histoire d'une Amérique à l'imaginaire collectif grevé par le poids du terrorisme. Celle d'une génération désabusée par les promesses de liberté à l'ère du numérique. Et celle d'une émancipation.
L'armée a condamné Chelsea Manning à trente-cinq ans de prison militaire, l'inculpant de vingt-deux chefs d'accusation. Après sa condamnation, elle annonce en prison qu'elle s'identifie comme femme et combat pour avoir le droit d'effectuer sa transition. En 2017, Barack Obama, en fin de mandat, commue sa peine et la libère. Aujourd'hui femme politique,Chelsea Manning milite pour la transparence.
Traduit de l'anglais (États-Unis) par Raymond Clarinard
An extraordinarily brave and moving memoir from one of the world''s most famous whistle-blowers, activists and trans women. In 2010 Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the United States Army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison. In her memoir, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. She reveals her challenging childhood, her struggles as an adolescent, what led her to join the military, and the fierce pride she took in her work. We also learn the details of how and why she made the decision to send classified military documents to WikiLeaks. This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of the digital age. **CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK TO WATCH OUT FOR, A NEW STATESMAN BOOK TO READ, AND ONE OF COSMOPOLITAN ''S BEST FORTHCOMING BOOKS**
In 2010, Chelsea Manning, working as an intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in Iraq, disclosed 720,000 classified military documents that she had smuggled out via the memory card of her digital camera. In March 2011, the United States Army sentenced Manning to thirty-five years in military prison, charging her with twenty-two counts relating to the unauthorized possession and distribution of classified military documents. The day after her conviction, Manning declared her gender identity as a woman and began to transition. In 2017, President Barack Obama commuted her sentence and she was released from prison.
In her as yet untitled memoir, Manning recounts how her pleas for increased institutional transparency and government accountability took place alongside a fight to defend her rights as a trans woman. She reveals her challenging childhood, her struggles as an adolescent, what led her to join the military, and the fierce pride she took in her work. We also learn the details of how and why she made the decision to send classified military documents to WikiLeaks.
This powerful, observant memoir will stand as one of the definitive testaments of the digital age.
Ce livre reproduit les conversations par chat entre Lamo et Chelsea Manning, qui ont mené à l'arrestation de cette dernière au moment de l'affaire WikiLeaks.
Am 21. Mai 2010 kontaktierte Bradley Manning, ein im Irak stationierter Nachrichtenanalyst der US-Armee, den Grey-Hat-Hacker Adrian Lamo über AOL Instant Messenger: Manning (die sich seitdem öffentlich als Frau identifiziert und ihren Vornamen zu Chelsea geändert hat) suchte Trost und Unterstützung aus ihrer isolierten Situation auf dem Militärstützpunkt. In den Monaten zuvor hatte sie klassifizierte Dokumente des US-Militärs und der US-Regierung an Wiki-Leaks weitergegeben, darunter Videoaufnahmen des sogenannten "Collateral Murder"-Hubschrauberangriffs, bei dem auch zwei Reuters-Journalisten ums Leben kamen. Lamo und Mannings Chat dauerte fünf Tage und Nächte. Zwei Tage, nachdem Manning die Unterhaltung begonnen hatte, gab Lamo die Chat-Protokolle an das FBI weiter, das Manning einige Tage später verhaftete. 2013 wurde Manning zu 35 Jahren Haft verurteilt - die Chat-Protokolle waren Teil der Beweismittel. Das Buch enthält die vollständigen Chat-Protokolle, die zuvor 2010 von Wired und WikiLeaks online publiziert wurden. In Form eines physischen Buches - versehen mit Kommentaren und Anmerkungen - verwandeln sich die Protokolle unmerklich in ein Dokument, das Skript, Dialog und Tragödie in einem ist.
