It's not my goal to be a leader or spokesperson, or anything like that.

I wanted the American public to know that not everyone in Iraq and Afghanistan were targets that needed to be neutralized, but rather people who were struggling to live in the pressure cooker environment of what we call asymmetric warfare.

The most important people for me, at least in the last couple of years since I came out, are my supersecret trans friends and confidantes. I think I need to come up with a code name for this circle.

The press and free speech landscape has totally changed. There is far less news reporting today. Instead, we have this endless stream of - largely meaningless and speculative - analysis by sideline commentators and self-proclaimed "experts."

I have served a sufficiently long sentence. I am not asking for a pardon of my conviction.

I want people to see the truth.

I think the embryonic digital world had the same affect on me as the openness of the old American frontier.