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by Chelsea Manning

But privately, according to subsequent reporting, she spent hours on the phone with diplomats all over the world telling them that, in fact, no one was in danger because of the disclosures, despite the painful news cycle. And internal government reports, including one commissioned by the White House and one by the State Department, showed that none of the revelations had, as a practical matter, hurt our place in the world. The media, for its part, continued to benefit hugely from the disclosures, writing ever-juicier exposés; and at the same time reporters more or less continued to accept the government line about my actions. I was both the most important source they’d had in years and the biggest threat to American interests abroad.