Pfc. Bradley Manning offers guilty plea in Wikileaks case

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57. That's a great response

and a fine example of the point of view it represents.

You want everyone else to play nice while the military-industrial complex gets to be 'creative' with our civil rights, torture and assassination to serve an authoritarian interpretation of events ("Not that there's anything wrong with that.&quot .

Bureaucratic committee? Sure! Congress can't even get access to the kind of information they were accustomed (and entitled) to getting. But we can have a citizen's review board to judge the aesthetic value of black lines, which could be arranged into pleasing figleaf patterns.

Manning provided information about an out of control enterprise and the atrocities it committed to an agent of the western media -- which is exactly what Wikileaks was at the time: an entity funded (though not created) by organizations like the Associated Press, NY Times and The Guardian to get the dirt they had been too afraid or self-interested to investigate. The NY Times in particular had lost credibility during the Bush years as a war cheerleader and mouthpiece; Later, they had the anti-war movement and its popularity with which to contend. Wikileaks was not an "enemy" of the American people and Manning had every reason to trust them.