Army Leaker Chelsea Manning on Obama's 'Short List' for Commutation

[JCanete]

30. You can make that case for manning, but again you put all the burden on Manning, and you have

way way way too much confidence in your congresspeople, but that same scenario is patently ridiculous when it comes to Snowden, who would have been breaking laws had he done that as well. He would have put himself into a position where he was not only exposed and thrown in some dark prison for his crime of acting as an American Citizen, but where his revelations would have gone to die without the public hearing a peep.

The single most compromising thing to our national security, beyond anything else, is our public being outright lied to while our Constitution gets violated by the people and institutions we're supposed to be able to trust.