Officers of the United States Government should be on trial -- not PFC Bradley Manning.

[John2]

166. Have any of you

served in the military? He took an Oath and was bound by the military code of justice. If he felt, that he could no longer carry out his duties, then he should have applied as a conscientious objector to the War. Apparently he had access to secret information as an intelligence personnel. I would not have done what he did. I would have applied to get out, and went through my Chain of Command. He could have went to a Priest.

What, I'm curious about, was how this one private was able to take these files off Base and pass his supervisor. When I was in the military, I had privates under me, and I always supervised them. If one of my privates would have done something like this, it would have reflected on me. So why isn't his supervisors responsible for this private? If any of my privates witnessed an illegal act, they were taught to report it to me and then I would have sent it up the chain of command. If there was a cover up, too many people would have known and I would have supported my soldier, if the chain tried to cover up. He could have gotten out and reported it to the Press. There would have been an investigation, that way any whistle blower could have been protected from the chain of command. I'm surprised a PFC had so much access to secret information without supervision.