Bradley Manning stole 750,000 files- among them files containing identifying information of people working with our forces in Afghanistan, and files sent in by soldiers in action on the ground, and gave [sold, according to some reports] this information to an unvetted FOREIGNER who then used them to build his organization and lure even more eople into sealing information that doesn’t belong to them.
Manning should have been tried and shot.
Yes but Assange was a publisher like the New York times in the Pentagon Papers that endangered our men in the field. No one blamed the New York times!! Assange is a hero for exposing our government spying on you, Don’t you agree or are you down with that?
And the government employed Bradley Manning with top secret clearance knowing he was a mentally deranged homosexual who later mutilated his sex organs but he remains a male because he has an x and y chromosome and can’t change that but how could the government be so stupid ? Where is the recrimination for hiring that sick faggot? Assange is a national hero.
I know people don’t often like National Review any more, but their yesterday’s article gave an important reminder of what Assange considers “transparency”.
“The idea that Assange is engaged in a campaign against the United States is supported by a 2008 leak that had little or no justification on the grounds of transparency in the public interest — of a classified 2004 report that included details of the workings of the U.S. Army’s Warlock system for jamming the homemade bombs called IEDs set off by cell phone or radio transmitter. The report concerned the problematic way the jammers interfered with regular military communications. But its publication ensured that anyone anywhere in the world who wanted to figure out how to defeat the Warlock now had the means to do so.”