Manning told me she fit in well with the intelligence types at Fort Huachuca, who shared her intrinsic geekiness. “I wanted to try to establish a contact in a way that it couldn’t be traced to me,” Manning told me. Manning had been away two full weeks, and there was a lot to catch up on — “I had to triple my work,” Manning told me. “I’d built all these defenses and walls around my emotions over the years, since being a teenager,” Manning told me. Manning told me that in the days leading up to the suicide attempt, she felt unusually low and alone.

Source: New York Times June 12, 2017 09:00 UTC