From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is the day.

Today, her disclosure of classified documents from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan

ushered in the age of leaks.

Now Chelsea Manning has been freed from prison and talked about why she did it and everything that followed.

It's Tuesday, June 13th.

We met in New York and for the time that Chelsea was in New York, she was staying in an apartment,

overlooking the Hudson River.

Matt shared recently interviewed Chelsea Manning for the Times magazine.

And the view was almost confined only to water.

And I remember that one of the first things that Chelsea said to me in the apartment was that her first night there,

she just sat at the window and stared out and thought about where she'd come from and what a strange trip it had been

because she had assumed that she would never be getting out of prison.

So to come from that physical and emotional place to being in this box in the sky in Manhattan was obviously a little unnerving for her.

But I think she took solace in it too. I mean, she'd set up her Xbox. She was playing Forza, which is a car driving video game.

She had pizza and the fridge and she had, she'd set up near the doors, an unplugged microwave and unused microwave and everyone who came in through all their devices into the microwave.

So the way.

So there's a fair day cage. It's called inside the microwave that blocks radio waves and for probably good reason,

Chelsea has been extremely worried about being tracked, about having her phone and internet and email tracked by hackers.

So when you walk into her apartment, did she ask you to put your cell phone in this microwave?

Yeah, she opened the door and said, okay, you got to put it in, you got to put them, you got to put your laptop in and your phone.

But then the that was so full of devices that I had to put it in the kitchen microwave, my computer, which was still plugged in and put my phone in there as well.

It was surreal. I mean, it really was.

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