Chelsea Manning files appeal against 'grossly unfair' 35-year prison sentence

[askeptic]

30. yep - mine too. The private gets years and the General gets probation

So classified is a BIG DEAL, is it? Except when it's a General named Petraeus. Then it's just "mishandling".

from the Washington Post:

The plea follows a high-profile investigation and prosecution that triggered Petraeus’s resignation from the CIA in 2012. As part of an agreement with prosecutors, he admitted that he improperly removed and retained highly sensitive information in eight personal notebooks that he gave the biographer, Paula Broadwell, to read.

When FBI agents confronted him in his CIA office in October 2012, Petraeus said he had never provided classified information to Broadwell, prosecutors said.

Making a false statement to a federal law enforcement agent during an investigation is a felony, a crime punishable by up to five years in prison. On Thursday, ­Keesler told Petraeus that he had been “untruthful” and that his behavior “constituted a serious lapse of judgment.”

The FBI searched Petraeus’s house in April 2013 and found the books in an unlocked drawer in his study. The books contained top-secret information that the Justice Department said could cause “exceptionally grave damage” to national security if disclosed.

That information included code words for secret intelligence programs, identities of covert officers, war strategy and deliberative discussions with the National Security Council.

I wonder which one actually had the most sensitive information? Yeah, we know all about RHIP and "making examples". Research will show many more examples. Rape and murder during war? 3 yrs. A general exposing classified info? wrist-slap. A private exposing crimes and mostly inconsequential classified info? 35 yrs

You go ahead with your self-righteous indignation regardless of the facts.