She...

Not sure how you'd call them, but surely they aren't spies. Nobody has proofed that yet, nobody even questioned that.

Behold. The holy trinity!

I have so much respect for these 3 fine people. Also, things will get interesting if Julian Assange actually gets elected in Australia's senate. 

Uh... this manning person is a woman?

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.

wth is not a woman

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.

Bradley Manning has recently expressed a desire to be called Chelsea Manning and go through hormone treatments to become a woman.

It seems like a large reason she perpetrated the leaks was due to how you can't really be transgendered and in the Army.   I mean still.   Don't ask Don't tell is gone, but Transgendered people are still screwed.

Oh boy are the right wing pundits going to go nuts when the government has to pay for her expensive hormone treatment.  It's going to be so annoying.

I think there was a fair bit of relevant information in there, about abuses by various Army and Marine personell in Iraq and Afghanistan, and Manning likely would have a much better PR going for him/her if that was all he/she had chosen to disclose rather than the banal diplomatic cables.

Also, not revealing his/her transgender status until the conviction makes it sound like a plea for attention (i know it's serious, but the way it comes out like this makes it sound like he just went off the deep end, woke up one day and told the guards "I am now Chelsea."). It's going to make for all sorts of uncomfortable matters for the T in LGBT, especially if this was Manning's motive.