[Krosan]

After Manning told Assange that he doesn’t have any more secret data Assange urged Manning to continue committing crimes and promised assistance in breaking further into the DoD computer systems. It doesn’t say it exactly in the indictment, but it seems to me Assange then trained and advised Manning in computer hacking techniques, that resulted in Manning being able to steal hash values of passwords of other people in that location, that Assange attempted to crack, but as far as we know it wasn’t unsuccessful.

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The truth of the additional crimes Manning or the DOJ accuse Assange of have not been determined at this time. Based on what factors we are presently certain of, my post compared and weighted those factors as follows:

- The penalty for US citizens who steal US government secrets should be even greater than for non-USCs.

- The penalty for US military members who steal US government secrets should be even greater than for non-military members.

- The penalty for those who actually steal those secrets or any property should be even greater than for those who receive possess or use them.

- After Manning went transgender, Obama commuted a 35-year sentence to 7 and released him....

Right now Assange has the edge over Manning for leniency on all but the last.