Inside the webchats the US hopes will get Assange behind bars

Chelsea Manning Austin, Texas, on 13 March 2018. Photograph: Suzanne Cordeiro/ReutersIt was the most dramatic moment of the weeks-long trial in 2013 in which whistleblower Chelsea Manning was prosecuted for a historic leak of state secrets. She was facing court martial for having electronically transferred a mind-boggling 250,000 US state department cables, almost half a million war-logs from Iraq and Afghanistan and a video of a US helicopter attack on civilians in Baghdad, to Julian Assange of