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Transcripts For BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240706



sunshine will compensate, six to 11 degrees the high but as we go into friday night, here is that wet weather and in areas where we are already seeing those flood warnings out, so across parts of south west england, wales, across the majority of england as that system drifts steadily east and behind it we will see a cost of shop showers continuing through the day. a wet start to saturday however you look at it and the rain eases away, plenty of showers, some wintry through the tops of higher ground in scotland, a breezy afternoon but milder in the south east, i2 scotland, a breezy afternoon but milder in the south east, 12 degrees but noticeably cooler into the far north of scotland. that is worth bearing in mind because once we have saturday out of the way, north westerly wind takes over, look at this, blue tones and yes, those white blobs, any showers could turn wintry so be careful what you wish for because next week will turn colder, some night time frosts around an ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 22:42:00

Which compromised individuals. well, that was, you know, the us government wasn t able to show, they didn t show that in court. so they made this allegation in 2010 but it appears that in 2011, whenever the information review task force reviewed this information, that it was a different type of information that i had access to that they included, because they assumed that everything that i had access to was potentially leaked, but, you know. and i did have access to source identifying information, and i did have access to human intelligence reports, but those were not included in the records. right, but once it was out there and wikileaks in the end dumped this information into the public domain because, of course, you had no control over what wikileaks, julian assange and the rest of them were going to do with it. right. they chose, in the end, to dump this information. well, if they hadn t, then i would have done the same thing. would you? i would have posted it. i could have pos ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 22:40:00

That s why i went to the us during my leave and tried to contact more conventionaljournalists. right, in the end, you use the computer in a book shop, i believe, to dispatch this information and we should say vast, vast amounts of information. well, the so called iraq war logs and the afghan war diaries amounted to hundreds of thousands of separate pieces of information. right, but i mean, like i worked with tens of millions of records every single day. so this is still even a fraction of the kinds of information that we were collecting and using. i don t doubt that, but what i m getting to is the point that as these were hundreds of thousands of files, there is no way in the world that you had sifted them, filtered them, you just dumped them. no, i wouldn t characterise it as that. i the way that i view this is these are categorical types of information. so you have information. and this is this is obviously types of information that i m very familiar with, that i have worked. ..that ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 22:38:00

A civilian contractor who was training us. they mentioned it and it was just sort of the thing in passing. i do recall that happening. i didn t really dig into it at that point. it was like 2008, so. right, you didn t dig into it, and yet within weeks of arriving in iraq, you d reached out to wikileaks and you d clearly made a decision to cross the most fundamental line of all to actually reveal this confidential secret information. i don t think that comports with the timeline, necessarily. i think that i, i spent, you know, quite a bit of time in myjob and in my role. and obviously i was in various. well, i think by the end of november, you d only arrived there a month or so earlier. by the end of november, you made the initial contact with wikileaks. that doesn t comport with my understanding of the events now. well, it s the timeline that was put into the court and that appears to be established by the computer records. that s not the timeline that i m familiar with. so i recall th ....

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Transcripts for BBCNEWS HARDtalk 20240604 22:51:00

The united states again, you spent many months in solitary confinement. in fact, you talked about breaking free and very, almost no. i mean, i ve had no contact with my lawyers. i had no contact with the outside world. i didn t even know who won the world cup. a couple of points before your eventual release in 2017, you were so desperate you tried to take your own life. yes. that sounds like you were broken. imean. well, i don t know, because that time period isjust, it s blended together so much. i don t remember a whole lot about my time period in kuwait because ijust remember being in this hot steel enclosure with 2 3 navy personnel watching me at all times, telling me different bits of information if they did talk to me at all, feeding me and it being very hot and i have no. i don t know. i don t know that i m facing charges. i have a lawyer ....

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