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Read Manning and Assange's chat logs from the weeks before 'Collateral Murder'

Read Manning and Assange's chat logs from the weeks before 'Collateral Murder'

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Many of the details of the chats between WikiLeaks head Julian Assange and Bradley (now Chelsea) Manning have been dissected in court and the public eye, but from a series of trial documents, Wired has unearthed a copy of long IM conversations between the two in March of 2010, just before the release of the "Collateral Murder" video. The chat logs between Manning and a "Nathaniel Frank" (believed to be an alias of Assange) reveal political pontification, emoticons, and terse strategizing about leaks that would soon put both Manning and Assange at the center of a political firestorm.