Bradley Manning charged in WikiLeaks case

[msanthrope]

60. The chat logs indicate a ex-post facto rationalization that is easily picked apart.

If he was doing it for his country, and to expose corruption, he should have followed the MWPA of 1988. Instead, he chose to take the easy way out and spent his January 2010 leave in the US, obtaining software to be loaded onto the DOD websites. ***

Ultimately, why he did it is irrelevant to the actual charge--nor does it provide an affirmative defense.

Something he writes, four months after the crime, after he is facing separation from the Army isn't credible...it's justification for something he knows is wrong. At least, that's what the prosecution will say. And they will be believed.



***That's conspiracy. That has nothing to do with the testimony of the redacted witness...but everything to do with the grand jury sitting in VA. It is a crime in and of itself, regardless of what he actually leaked.