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In reply to the discussion: The Humiliation of Bradley Manning. Had he only checked first to see if he meet with Whistleblower [View all]Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)I'll defer to others for confimation of that.
He definitely knew he was leaking a lot of repulsive, sick shit that the Army was covering up by classifying as secret.
This is clear from the gov't-introduced weblogs. In those he discusses his own motivations in clinical detail unaware that he's being set-up.
The Manning haters keep going back to... well, he released MORE than just sick shit that was being deliberately covered up.
Those are the more *reality-based* Manning haters.
That may be. Perhaps Ellsberg released more than simply info that dealt w. VN and might have had implications for other foreign policy.
I frankly don't care. Ellsberg's leak (or should I make some DUers happy and say "espionage?) helped stop the war by blowing the cover on the giant con-job that was keeping people dying unnecessarily in SE Asia.
Sometimes people have to act and act quickly.
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