Ten Revelations From Bradley Manning's WikiLeaks Documents

[randome]

5. The only thing I see troublesome on that list (in a legal sense)...

is this:

A leaked diplomatic cable provided evidence that during an incident in 2006, U.S. troops in Iraq executed at least 10 Iraqi civilians, including a woman in her 70s and a 5-month-old, then called in an airstrike to destroy the evidence. The disclosure of this cable was later a significant factor in the Iraqi government’s refusal to grant U.S. troops immunity from prosecution beyond 2011, which led to U.S. troops withdrawing from the country.

I don't recall if this issue ever received attention or was discounted.

Everything else on the list is not illegal, including the Apache helicopter attack, of which even Assange said the men who were fired upon appeared to be carrying RPGs.

So the question becomes, then, was the hundreds of thousands of documents that were given to a foreign national and his private company worth all this? Did Manning even know about the incident above or was that a 'pleasant accident'?

And what about the informants' names that were released? And the email addresses and other personal info about service members?

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