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The year Assange walks free? Why there are cautious hopes
On a steamy summer night last August, the trendiest place to be in New York was the Brooklyn nightclub Elsewhere.
The star of the event, performing as a DJ for the first time in 15 years, was better known as one of history’s most famous and controversial whistleblowers.
- Matthew Knott
- The Age
In 2010, Chelsea Manning used her position as a United States Army intelligence analyst to copy hundreds of thousands of documents related to the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, saving them on a CD labelled “Lady Gaga” as a disguise.
Manning then sent the files to WikiLeaks, including the famous Collateral Murder video showing US troops laughing after shooting dead a…