Manning sentenced to 35 years

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Mnementh said:

Kasz216 said:

Mr Khan said:

mai said:

theprof00 said:

That image presents a valid counter-point to all the "if you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to fear" bs justifying PRISM and such.

Seriously though... did Manning actually release anything useful?  I don't really remember anything.  Were the Palestinian Papers Manning?

 

All I remember is a bunch of silly back channel foreign policy comments.  Nothing actually worthy of a leak.   Unlike Snowden, the whole Manning thing just seemed like it was done because they had an axe to grind with the US government.

For reasons that have just recently become known.

http://gregmitchellwriter.blogspot.de/2013/06/as-debate-continues-what-manning.html

Well yeah, that's sort of my point... I mean, looking at the list of what the guy thinks is the biggest (to help sell his book no less so he's got a firm view of the matieral).

"Collataral Murder" was the video where the reporters accidentally get killed.  Tragic, but not really something leak worthy showing systematic wrongdoing.

I mean... reading the whole list... there's really nothing there leak worthy outside maybe FBI tought people in Egypt to torture... but I think everyone already assumed that anyway, but thought it was the CIA not the FBI.

Pretty much none of that is really worthy of Whistleblowing... and the biggest bombshells aren't even about the US Government. 

 

The "US allowed torture in Iraq" almost sounds like one, until you realize that Iraq is infact it's own country and not a US province.  The US, and pretty much most europeon coutnries for that matter deliver prisoners to countries where they know these people will be tortured all the time.

Hell a lot of the times they export them to pro torture countries because they want them tortured.