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Chatsamani, welcome to the Daily Show.

Hi, Azul.

It is going well, and, you know, your book is one of those books that, strangely enough,

I felt like I had read because of how much you had been in the news, because of how big your story has been

in not just American media, but in, you know, the telling of America's military operation.

Let's start with, I guess, the inception of the idea to write a book.

After pulling off one of the largest intelligence leaks in American history,

you were vilified, you served time, you were labeled as a traitor,

and it felt like the story tapered off over time, and now you've come back,

and you've reignited many of the conversations with this book.

My question to you is why?

I think that it's the fact that my own version of the story, my first draft of history, if you will,

hasn't been, you know, talked about as much.

I feel like there's been all the discussion of things that have happened around me,

involving the military, involving other personalities, like President Obama,

who commuted my sentence, but I feel like my story, my coming of age story, really,

you know, for trying to tell the story of how I became who I am today,

has been kind of left out of the picture, and so I wanted to tell that story.

Yeah, in many ways, you became a lightning rod and an idea,

because what you did shook the world.

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