Don't care for the self-admitted armchair quarterbacking -- as if Manning had the resources to analyse hundreds of thousands of cables.

I've had mixed feelings about Manning, alternating between admiration and outrage. I concluded that he is a traitor, and deserves no admiration.

I believe his heart was in the right place, but his actions are treasonous because they were so ham handed and ill thought out.

Whistleblowers focus on a specific event/issue; this guy released information on thousands of issues and actions irregardless of the merit.

The fact that this may have indirectly led to the Arab Spring is irrelevant.

Using the word "irregardless" without even the slightest hint of irony should be a capital offence. Your spell checker tells you it's wrong fer christs sake.

I am not a grammar nazi. I think the english language is and should be fluid. Informally, I speak and write to be understood. I have enough education and academic degrees to have the intellectual freedom to ignore a mere spellchecker when I see fit.

Now, irregardless of that, would you care to comment on the issue at hand?>> ^Fade:

Using the word "irregardless" without even the slightest hint of irony should be a capital offence. Your spell checker tells you it's wrong fer christs sake.

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If the trial is coming up, then it's not indefinite detainment.

It's an awful long time to wait for a trial, especially when his crime is essentially revealing truths to the American public about the war they were paying for.

Treason would be withholding that evidence.>> ^Morganth:

If the trial is coming up, then it's not indefinite detainment.

@longde I too have struggled to find how I feel about Manning as well. You can't say you love the rule of law then turn around and support everything he did with out some further justification. And to that end, I think exposing hidden violations to the rule of law, violations where the term "classified" and "secret" were used intentionally to mask them, should be protected under whistle blower exceptions. I don't know if that is what Manning did exactly, which is why I am eager to hear the details in his trial. I can still see my idea of him going either way, I know Greenwald loves what he did, so I am leaning that direction, but I reserve the right to change my mind

Manning is a young man that saw injustice being done and decided to act. You can say that he broke the law but I say he followed a higher one. He followed a morality pretty much everyone can get behind even if they get upset with his means.

The bottom line is nothing he leaked hurt anyone and you can't send him to jail just because you say he hurt the government, you need evidence, you need proof. This is of course what this trail is for and I believe it's not even done with it's first week in session...so why does everyone know for a fact he's guilty?

If there was justice in this world Manning would be a hero and the government as well as the Generals would be strung up for the wrongful deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.

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The fact that this may have indirectly led to the Arab Spring is irrelevant.


If the positive consequences of something are irrelevant than so are the negative consequences.