Really?
You honestly believe the enemy wasn’t paying attention?
You honestly believe they didn’t make hay with it to boost their morale?
By the way, you said Manning did a great service to this country.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2822182/posts?page=2#2
“Manning did a GREAT service to freedom in America. Yes, some toes got stepped on, but what we learned was worth the pain.”
Treason is treason.
He didn’t do his job because he was upset that homosexuals didn’t get to prance around openly.
When the founders decided to go to war with the UK the King felt the same way you do.
But while what he did was wrong and I would never do it myself, he did in fact do us a big favor. The cables exposed a lot of corruption in our state department and government.