The Manning kid didn't get anyone killed. But he did embarrass the hell out of a lot of bureaucrats and political whores like hillary so I'm not going to join in the stoning. As for Snowden, he's a brave guy but he's also about to learn that most americans are just sheep that are okay with fedgov listening into and recording all of their conversations and reading all of their emails. Personally I wouldn't have done it because the people in the US mostly aren't worth having a ruined life. But I still have a lot respect for him.
I seem to remember him getting our foreign assets waxed in a couple places.
Actually, Manning revealed detail - in his document dump - about actual arab collaborators in Afghanistan and Iraq, including what they were paid and what for. I have the docs.
He got people killed. Not a shred of a question.
Moreover, there’s something extremely interesting about Manning’s leak.
After the leak, he had a couple of very vocal and eager to help sympathizers.
On further digging, these two were running a “security” firm. And they were air force vets. And they had a dod link.
Now, it seems they were on before the leak too. It’s tempting to see the Manning brouhaha as actually done by the administration.