Bradley Manning’s (now known as Chelsea Manning) arrest and incarceration was unjustified and illegal. Manning has been incarcerated by the U.S. government for the past three years under many charges of violation of the Uniform Code of Military Injustice. This topic jumped out to me because I had heard of it a couple of years ago when it was current news, but I did not do much research on the matter. Once I saw Bradley Manning’s “Americans Who Tell the Truth” profile, I was inspired to do more research and figure out what went on during the whole incident. Bradley Manning was your typical American soldier, less the fact that Manning was a homosexual in the military. Manning’s sexuality set him apart from soldier peers in the military, creating an outcast according to first hand accounts of many members of his battalion. Pvt. Manning was sent on a tour in Afghanistan working with IT systems for the military, giving him access to many documents that would otherwise be deemed classified to the general public. Upon sifting through thousands of documents depicting Military injustice and illegal behavior, Bradley Manning then made a bold move. Manning “leaked” hundreds of thousands of classified military documents onto a website called Wikileaks in 2009, giving the general public complete access to otherwise classified military information. Manning was promptly arrested by the Military on grounds of treason, aiding the enemy in times of war, violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice, and breaching the espionage act of 1917. Here is the catch, many of the documents leaked depicted military acts which breach basic human rights including countless murders of innocent civilians and raids on civilian property without good reason. It was wrong on the part of the military to knowingly cover up such information in a manner, which restricts the eyes of the American public from ever knowing that it happened. By breaching human rig