|
Printer-friendly format Email this thread to a friend Bookmark this thread |
This topic is archived. |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:04 PM Original message |
If an American military person with security clearances had passed |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:06 PM Response to Original message |
1. Yes, the New York Times is your enemy. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:33 PM Response to Reply #1 |
22. I'm not referring to the NYTimes. Once this info had been |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
2. Bradley Manning committed treason, Julian Assange did not. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:10 PM Response to Reply #2 |
9. Question. Would you say Ellsberg committed treason? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Mimosa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:19 PM Response to Reply #9 |
15. Legally, yes. But it served a positive purpose, didn't it? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:17 PM Response to Reply #15 |
21. Legally, it was Unauthorized Disclosure of Classified materials, not Treason. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #21 |
32. Hear, hear! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 04:22 AM Response to Reply #21 |
60. Actually, the material Ellsberg released wasn't classified |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
23. Ellsberg didn't randomly release 250,000 documents that |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:37 PM Response to Reply #23 |
27. How do you know what Dan Ellsberg's motives were? Or , Assange's for that matter? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:42 PM Response to Reply #27 |
33. Both of them have written and spoken about their motives. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:59 PM Response to Reply #33 |
41. Is that all you have to say for yourself? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:21 PM Response to Reply #23 |
47. You know nothing about Manning, that's for sure. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
neverforget (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:11 PM Response to Reply #2 |
10. Yep +1 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:35 PM Response to Reply #2 |
24. Where did I say anything about Assange? Of course he can't |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
nadinbrzezinski (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:18 PM Response to Reply #2 |
46. Just on a technical matter |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 04:24 AM Response to Reply #2 |
61. Treason is defined in the Constitution. It's not clear to me that Manning's |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
arcane1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:07 PM Original message |
I don't think you speak for everyone. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:36 PM Response to Original message |
26. When Cheney exposed US spies, as Manning did, he wasn't |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
leveymg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 03:55 AM Response to Reply #26 |
59. Name a spy whom Manning exposed. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
jpgray (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
3. Der Spiegel, the Guardian, Le Monde, NYT--enemies to you, or no? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:22 PM Response to Reply #3 |
16. Lots of things are against the law that aren't morally wrong |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:49 PM Response to Reply #16 |
39. He downloaded 250,000 documents, all of which he could not possibly have read. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
enlightenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:01 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. Not treason. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:15 PM Response to Reply #42 |
44. "or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid or comfort. " |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Goldstein1984 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 12:00 PM Response to Reply #44 |
65. And as I wrote... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:38 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Those publications exercised some judgment and restraint -- |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
NightWatcher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:08 PM Response to Original message |
4. Funnier still how we were against our government doing shitty things when Boosh did it |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. +1 nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
robinlynne (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:16 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. yes. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
QC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #4 |
30. +3 |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:09 PM Response to Original message |
5. Deleted message |
laughingliberal (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
6. I suppose it depends on what information he'd passed. Something exposing the lies of the shadow... |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
7. Apparently the entire world is now a US enemy. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:39 PM Response to Reply #7 |
29. No. But putting these documents on a website available to the whole world |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
JackRiddler (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #29 |
36. So who are the US enemies? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Catherina (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:10 PM Response to Original message |
8. Please. Speak only for yourself. I most certainly would not have. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Vickers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:12 PM Response to Original message |
12. Unrec for broadbrushing and poor logic. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
bemildred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:18 PM Response to Original message |
14. I would have called it business as usual. nt |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:26 PM Response to Original message |
17. If a member of the US armed forces has a security clearance, |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
31. I was talking about Manning, the American serviceman who says he passed |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:03 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. Wasn't pretending. Next time make yourself clear. n/t |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:16 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. I did. Reread the OP. I was specifically speaking about an American |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
struggle4progress (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 04:38 AM Response to Reply #17 |
62. I think it might depend on exactly what Assange passed to who: |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
RaleighNCDUer (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
18. And if an American military person with security clearances had passed |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:44 PM Response to Reply #18 |
35. You should be very happy then with Cheney, since he passed the |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
proud2BlibKansan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:30 PM Response to Original message |
19. I wouldn't have |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 04:34 PM Response to Original message |
20. So, you don't know the difference between journalism and treason? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
37. Bradley Manning isn't a journalist. He's a serviceman with a security clearance |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:59 PM Response to Reply #37 |
51. Manning didn't pass secrets to any enemy. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
lunatica (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:35 PM Response to Original message |
25. You're wrong. And the truth is always good to know |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:44 PM Response to Original message |
34. So what "enemies" are being aided by the disclosures? |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
former9thward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 09:27 PM Response to Reply #34 |
57. Barack Obama's enemies |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:45 PM Response to Original message |
38. A soldier is trained from day one NOT to OBEY and UNLAWFUL order |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 05:50 PM Response to Reply #38 |
40. He downloaded 250,000 documents, all of which he couldn't possibly |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
txlibdem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:38 PM Response to Reply #40 |
48. Perhaps he read 10 documents and 8 showed signs of evil |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:41 PM Response to Reply #40 |
49. He's only released less than 700 of them after reviewing them. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
pnwmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 11:10 PM Response to Reply #49 |
58. He planned to put them all up on his Amazon website |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 07:14 PM Response to Reply #40 |
53. I don't care what his motive was, I am just damn glad he had the courage to do it. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Better Believe It (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 06:43 PM Response to Original message |
50. Let the "swiftboat like" personal attacks and character assasination campaign continue! |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
52. Bullshit. We would have cheered for the information. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Union Scribe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 07:21 PM Response to Original message |
54. The people are the enemy? Interesting. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
TexasObserver (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
55. No, we wouldn't have. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
MineralMan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Dec-04-10 08:11 PM Response to Original message |
56. He will not be charged with treason. He will be charged with |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 04:44 AM Response to Original message |
63. The DU posting bug strikes again. |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
Greyhound (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Dec-05-10 04:45 AM Response to Original message |
64. K&U for utter crap. You've made a baseless, blanket accusation and tried to imply |
Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top |
DU AdBot (1000+ posts) | Fri Apr 26th 2024, 08:13 PM Response to Original message |
Advertisements [?] |
Top |
Home » Discuss » Archives » General Discussion (1/22-2007 thru 12/14/2010) |
Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators
Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.
Home | Discussion Forums | Journals | Store | Donate
About DU | Contact Us | Privacy Policy
Got a message for Democratic Underground? Click here to send us a message.
© 2001 - 2011 Democratic Underground, LLC