Let's Blame It All On Private Manning

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Lon
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There is no question that what young Private Manning did was wrong but who ever was responsible for putting a PRIVATE in possession of such sensitive material should be hung out to dry. C'mon----a lowly Private.

Bradley Manning Charged: Alleged WikiLeaks Source Faces 'Aiding Enemy' Charge
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They finally charged him, huh? They were holding him in solitary confinement all this time, which should be illegal if it isn't already and it's definitely cruel and unusual punishment.
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It may be sensitive material - very slightly but, if you consider it, none of it operationally secret. It's diplomatic backgrounding, it's the exchanges that make sure the embassies sing off the State Department's hymn sheet and that the State Department hears justification for its policies. It's internal memos.

The bit I can't slot into place is "aiding the enemy". What enemy? The only people these cables were "secret" from was the unwashed public - the voters and onlookers. They're the enemy, these days? In what way did any of the diplomatic traffic aid anyone engaged in combat against US forces anywhere?
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Journalist, if you remember it started off with the video of americans gunning down reuters journalists, the army had initially denied all knowledge of what had happened to them.

YouTube - ABC News - Reuter's Journalists gunned down in Baghdad wikileaks
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This guy will see life in prison, they're going to make an example. In the old days he would be tortured in the town square and drawn and quartered. This whole mess is unjust, from start to finish. If we had not went to Iraq we would not be here, simple as that.
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I watched a special about his case last night. It was called "Wikileaks' Forgotten Man"

It seems he did it for the right reason; after seeing some captives being led away to be tortured he decided he was sick of being a part of what he saw as a wrong war.
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