julian assange and bradley manning have been persecuted and tortured by david barrett's government because they published (more) evidence of US summary execution of innocent people.

        https://www.nytimes.com/video/multimedia/1248069533084/collateral-murder.html

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collateral_murder

        "video shows the crew firing on a group of men and killing several of them, then laughing at some of the casualties, all of whom were civilians, including two Reuters journalists."