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To: ColdOne

What is the difference in the actions of Bradley Manning, which is treason, and the actions of the Obama administration? They both intentionally provided confidential top secret information for publication, which jeopordized our national security.


10 posted on 06/10/2012 12:01:51 PM PDT by Smnz (Imagine: Obama and Holder on trial for murder - in Mexico..)
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To: Smnz

“Treason never doth prosper,
And this is the reason:
For if it doth prosper
None dare call it treason.”
—Horace Walpole


20 posted on 06/10/2012 1:23:45 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Smnz
What is the difference in the actions of Bradley Manning, which is treason, and the actions of the Obama administration? They both intentionally provided confidential top secret information for publication, which jeopordized our national security.

Intent!

Manning intended harm. Obama intended to improve his image.

32 posted on 06/11/2012 1:56:45 AM PDT by An.American.Expatriate (Here's my strategy on the War against Terrorism: We win, they lose. - with apologies to R.R.)
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