centers of power joining me to discuss the importance and ramifications of the a songe case is marjorie cohen professor america at thomas jefferson school of law where she taught from 1901 to 2016 and a former president of the national lawyers guild she edited and contributed to the books the united states and torture interrogation incarceration and abuse along with drones and targeted killing legal moral and geo political issues so marjorie let's just open with a summary of what. julian and wiki leaks did and then i'm going to ask you to explain the u.s. case that's been brought against him well in 20102011 wiki leaks published classified documents which were provided by u.s. army intelligence analyst chelsea manning and they contained $90000.00 reports about the war in afghanistan including the afghan war logs which documented civilian casualties by coalition forces that more than the u.s. military had previously reported wiki leaks also published 400000 field reports about the iraq war the iraq war lore logs and over 15000 previously unreported deaths of iraqi civilians and the systematic