Dang - not what I had hoped for Bradley Manning
From
Newsmax:
Manning Guilty of Espionage but Not 'Aiding Enemy'
Military judge Col. Denise Lind on Tuesday found U.S. soldier Bradley Manning not guilty of aiding the enemy - the most serious charge he faced for handling over documents to WikiLeaks. She found him guilty of most of the other 20 criminal counts in the biggest breach of classified information in the nation's history.
The U.S. government was pushing for the maximum penalty for what it viewed as a serious breach of national security, which included battlefield reports from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, while anti-secrecy activists praised Manning's action as shining a light on shadowy U.S. operations abroad.
Army prosecutors contended during the court-martial that U.S. security was harmed when the WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website published combat videos of an attack by an American Apache helicopter gunship, diplomatic cables and secret details on prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay that Manning provided the site while he was a junior intelligence analyst in Iraq in 2009 and 2010.
Mr. Manning is still facing some serious jailtime. I think that he should have been charged with treason. In my opinion, the difference between Manning and Snowden is that Manning just dumped the files out on WikiLeaks. His files had the identities of undercover agents working for us -- Manning is directly responsible for their deaths.
Snowden had the integrity to think about and took the time to actually search through his files and redact any sensitive information.
Snowden is a whistleblower, Manning is a petulant little man-child.
Posted by DaveH at July 30, 2013 11:11 AM