"\n\n\n\n\n\n''README.txt: A Memoir'' is a 2022

memoir A memoir (; , ) is any nonfiction narrative writing based in the author's personal memories. The assertions made in the work are thus understood to be factual. While memoir has historically been defined as a subcategory of biography or autobi ...

Chelsea Manning Chelsea Elizabeth Manning (born Bradley Edward Manning; December 17, 1987) is an American activist and whistleblower. She is a former United States Army soldier who was convicted by court-martial in July 2013 of violations of the Espionage A ...

. It covers her early life, experience as a soldier in the

U.S. Army The United States Army (USA) is the land service branch of the United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S. uniformed services, and is designated as the Army of the United States in the U.S. Constitution.Article II, section 2, cl ...

, and life and imprisonment after she leaked classified information to

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.<\/ref><\/ref><\/ref><\/ref><\/ref>\n\nIn the memoir, she explains that her boss, in late 2009, had recommended a State Department Net-Centric Diplomacy portal with its \"trove of diplomatic cables\" as possibly \"useful to us in our analytical work. I read every single one that related to Iraq, and then began to poke around in the rest of the database...\" On February 21, 2010, she leaked \"what would become known as the 'Collateral Murder' tape, which showed grainy aerial footage from July 2007 of an Apache helicopter air strike gone horribly wrong.\"<\/ref>\n

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\n\n\n\n\n Memoirs of imprisonment\n 2022 non-fiction books\n Military memoirs\n Works about whistleblowing\n Farrar, Straus and Giroux books\n Chelsea Manning\n\n\n{{Memoir-stub"