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In reply to the discussion: America WAKE UP The MANNING Circus Trial Should Be Considered UNCONSTITUTIONAL [View all]TorchTheWitch
(11,065 posts)any crime or wrong doing. They were classified for some other appropriate reason. Why classify something to try to cover up any wrongdoing or a crime when it DOESN'T show any crime or wrongdoing? Geez, we all sat here for weeks reading them. Manning didn't even KNOW what all those thousands and thousands of documents contained - he stole them for purely personal reasons having no intension of whistleblowing (how could he if he didn't know what they contained?), and they DIDN'T contain information that was either criminal or wrongful.
His attorney should never have touched that whistleblower rubbish with a ten foot pole, but it sure got a lot of money out of fawning suckers to pay for Manning's defense. The only thing that could have in any way helped Manning was to use the "nutball" defense... he was emotionally disturbed, didn't know what he was doing, not in his right mind at the time, temporarily insane, etc. There even already was evidence of the military knowing he wasn't right in the head - they should have used that. Instead his attorney went ape with all the claims of how sane he was as it went to his confinement status.