In the one-hour seven-minute recording from a court hearing in late February, Private First Class Manning describes how he wanted to expose the "bloodlust" of US forces fighting in the Middle East and how he had a "clear conscience" after helping to engineer the largest intelligence leak in American history.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson