 So our operating on a section is called to rule that the record of PLEC on part is present when we report last processor and present in court. P.S.E. Manning. Maybe just Manning. Yes, ma'am. I wrote the statement in confinement, so following facts are provided in support by the Providence Inquiry for my court-martial, United States v. P.S.E., Bradley E. Manning. Personal effects. I am a 25-year-old private first class in the United States Army. My primary military occupational specialty, or the M.O.S., is 35 Fox Crop Intelligence Analysts. I entered active duty status on 2 October 2007. I listed with the hope of obtaining both real-world experience and earning benefits under the G.I.D.L. for college opportunities. A recruiter informed me that I should select an M.O.S. that complimented my interests outside the military. In response, I told him that I was interested in geopolitical matters and information technology. He suggested that I consider becoming an intelligent analyst. Facts regarding the unauthorized storage and disclosure of the 12 July 2007 Aero-Luckin's Team video. The video depicted several individuals being engaged by an Aero-Luckin's Team. At first, I did not consider the video very special, as I had few countless other warm-form-type videos depicting combat. However, I recorded a lot of the comments by the Aero-Luckin's Team crew and the second engagement in the video of an unarmed Bongo Truck. Troubled me. It was clever to me that the event happened because the Aero-Luckin's Team mistakenly identified various employees as a potential threat and that the people in the Bongo Truck were really attempting to assist the wounded. The people living in were not a threat, but a really good cemented, good Samaritans. The most alarming aspect of the video to me, however, was the seeking of the rightful bloodlust of the Aero-Luckin's team. They appeared to have. They dehumanized the individuals they were engaged in and seemed to not value human life by referring to them as both dead bastards, and congratulating each other on the ability to kill in large numbers. At one point in the video, there's an individual on the ground attempting to crawl to safety. The individual is seriously wounded. Instead of calling for medical attention to the location, one of the Aero-Luckin's Team crew members globally asked for a wounded person to pick up the weapons so that he can have a reason to engage. For me, this seems similar to a child torturing hands with a maritime blood. Shortly after the second engagement, a mechanized infantry unit arrives at sea. It was a menace, the Aero-Luckin's Team crew learns that children are in the van and, despite the injuries that the crew exhibits no remorse, instead, they downplay the significance of their actions, saying, quote, warrants their fault for bringing their kids into a battle. For me, it's all a big mess and I'm not wondering what these things mean and how it all fits together, and it burdens me emotionally. I saved the copy of the video on my workstation. At the time, I placed the video and world's engagement information onto my personal laptop. On June about 21, February 2010, I used the WLO submission form and uploaded the documents. The WLO released the video on 5 April 2010.