Bradley Manning charged in WikiLeaks case

[TiberiusB]

47. Possibly, yes, depending on the circumstances

The legal term is "Selective Prosecution."

The government regularly protects those who break the law when it serves them and prosecutes those that attempt to serve the public.

http://politics.salon.com/2011/10/10/the_real_danger_from_classified_leaks/

And for the record, yes, the Iraq "war" (the U.S. hasn't been in an official "war" since WWII...really) was, and is, illegal. Under international law, and more specifically the U.N. Charter, the invasion of a sovereign nation that poses no immediate or demonstrable threat to the aggressor nation is prohibited.

Looked at from a Constitutional perspective, the passage "all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land" would seem to make it binding upon the U.S. to abide by the U.N.'s rules.

This all doesn't even touch on the legality of Manning's extended solitary confinement without charge or access to representation, the legal and unconstitutional black-hole that are military tribunals, the Justice Department's abuse of whistle-blowers via the Espionage Act, the Pentagon's own early admission that none of the documents leaked by Manning were that damaging to operations, and so on.