were basically having issues looked at, you know, ignored or given a second chance or, you know, put into a slightly different role to sort of shake things up, yeah. right, because you were obviously destined to go to iraq to do data analysis, to work in intel in one form or another. right. you were warned, weren t you, about the dangers of leaking, of exposing information to the outside? you were also warned, i believe, about wikileaks, in particular? so, yeah, it was brought up in my.in my. it was brought up by a contractor, a civilian contractor who was training us. they mentioned it and it was just sort of a 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.
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