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reusrename

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7. I don't agree with your takeaway.

Reply to struggle4progress (Reply #3)

Mon Jul 1, 2013, 10:23 AM

Jul 2013

National security should not be used as a fig leaf for illegal or immoral acts.

If the tape should not have been classified in the first place, then Manning should not be held accountable for releasing it.

The military routinely classifies stuff that has been in the public domain for years. I remember that when Reagan invaded Grenada, one of the things they did was they classified all of the maps of the island. IIRC, several student were detained for a short time for having tourist maps in their possession. Luckily, those same tourist maps prevented a hospital or a school or something from being blown up.

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