I agree with Anonymous about this... Do you?

[another_liberal]

29. I saw twelve innocent human beings . . .

I saw twelve innocent human beings torn into bloody corpses by slugs from a 30 mm chain gun. And, thanks to Private Manning, the U.S. government has no recourse but to admit that is exactly the kind of thing they have done, time after criminal time, in our name. Any investigation of that incident now ongoing is because Manning's courage made it impossible for the Army not to investigate. Why do you think they haven't investigated other such butchery, or do you really believe nothing like this ever happened before?

Whatever harm Manning's sharing of those records with his fellow Americans may have caused, and I sincerely doubt it was much, that supposed harm was far, far outweighed by the enormous good his shining some sunlight on our filthy, merciless, indiscriminate way of carrying out war against defenseless people and nations.

As to your point about the triviality of much of what he is accused of releasing: Would you rather he had made public documents which really are "Top Secret" and need to be kept so for the good of our national defense? I think his discretion should be applauded.