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America\u2019s Debt to Bradley Manning<\/a><\/h3>\n

From the Archive:<\/strong>\u00a0The U.S. mainstream media is again\u00a0embracing\u00a0a U.N. report critical of Iran\u2019s alleged past work on a nuclear bomb, but leaks\u00a0from Pvt. Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning exposed Yukiya Amano, the key U.N. official, as a front for\u00a0U.S. and Israeli interests, as Robert Parry reported in 2011.<\/p>\n<\/header>\n

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One criticism about the value of the information that Pvt. Bradley Manning gave to WikiLeaks is that most of it was known in some form and thus didn\u2019t justify the risks to sources who might be identified from the diplomatic and military cables. However, that complaint misses the importance of detailed \u201cground truth\u201d in assessing issues of war and peace.<\/p>\n

For instance, the prospects of war with Iran escalated in November 2011 because of a toughly worded report by the United Nations\u2019 International Atomic Energy Agency, which compiled some old and new evidence to argue that Iran continues to make progress toward a nuclear bomb. Immediately, the U.S. news media accepted the IAEA\u2019s report as the unquestioned truth \u2013 and as further repudiation of the 2007 U.S. intelligence estimate that Iran had ceased work on a nuclear weapon in 2003.<\/p>\n

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U.S. Army Pvt. Chelsea (formerly Bradley) Manning.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

One might note the irony in this flip on Iran. In\u00a0the run-up to war with Iraq,\u00a0the U.S. media embraced CIA reports of secret Iraqi WMD programs while mocking the IAEA\u2019s doubts. Regarding Iran, the CIA and IAEA have traded places, with U.S. intelligence analysts \u2013 chagrined over swallowing the bogus Iraq-WMD evidence \u2013 being more skeptical of the Iran-nuke allegations, while the IAEA has taken the role as chief WMD exaggerator.<\/p>\n

So, it was useful to examine the WikiLeaks documents regarding\u00a0the election of the new IAEA leader in 2009 to understand why this flip may have occurred. What those classified State Department cables show is that the IAEA\u2019s new director general, Japanese diplomat Yukiya Amano, credited his victory largely to U.S. government support and promptly stuck his hand out for U.S. money.<\/p>\n

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America\u2019s Debt to Bradley Manning From the Archive:\u00a0The U.S. mainstream media is again\u00a0embracing\u00a0a U.N. report critical of Iran\u2019s alleged past work on a nuclear bomb, but leaks\u00a0from Pvt. Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning exposed Yukiya Amano, the key U.N. official, as a front for\u00a0U.S. and Israeli interests, as Robert Parry reported in 2011. One criticism about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[3079,135,6963,10986,10987,441,442,496,2583,7203,11121,880,4176],"class_list":["post-15428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-bradley-manning","tag-cia","tag-consortium-news","tag-iaea","tag-international-atomic-energy-agency","tag-iran","tag-iraq","tag-mainstream-media","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-robert-parry","tag-weapons-of-mass-destruction","tag-wikileaks","tag-wmd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15428"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15430,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15428\/revisions\/15430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}