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msanthrope

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2. Why even go to International Law? His own oath required that he whistleblow.

Reply to Segami (Original post)

Fri Aug 23, 2013, 01:44 PM

Aug 2013

The problem was that Manning, 1) did not follow the MWPA of 1988, which would have immunized him from prosecution, and 2) many of the documents he dumped would not have qualified under the Act.

Had Manning done what was required of him, he would have had a very tough road, but surely not a tough as what he faces now.

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International Law REQUIRED Manning To Be A Whistleblower [View all] Segami Aug 2013 OP

Except for that small matter of the oath Chelsea took to the United States, where she lives. shenmue Aug 2013 #1

authoritarians sure are hung up on oaths.. frylock Aug 2013 #17

Why even go to International Law? His own oath required that he whistleblow. msanthrope Aug 2013 #2

It didn't require him to put peoples lives in danger to do it uponit7771 Aug 2013 #3

What, the life of the child traffiker? Or the ones who assassinated Reuters journalists? Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #5

No the lives of Americans and allies , also What do you mean "her" uponit7771 Aug 2013 #8

No enemy was aided by PFC Manning. No American lives were at risk. War crimes were revealed. Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #9

I'll agree with the prosecutors on this one, Manning just threw a bunch of docs out for uponit7771 Aug 2013 #11

It's more than docs... Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #12

Yes I agree on that point but that doesn't justify the other parts. I still haven't heard one person uponit7771 Aug 2013 #13

120 days in solitary confinement out of 3 years without a trial; 35 years in prison. Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #14

"would have been worse had she gone to Obama" I don't see that, I've not heard anything ... uponit7771 Aug 2013 #15

Seriously, you trust these people that much? Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #16

K&R. How sad are OUR laws in comparison? Fire Walk With Me Aug 2013 #4

International law required a massive document dump of 250K cables she never bothered to read? geek tragedy Aug 2013 #6

+1 Safetykitten Aug 2013 #7

K & R ~ nt 99th_Monkey Aug 2013 #10

The problem with this argument is that you can build a whistleblower defense on specific grantcart Aug 2013 #18