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In reply to the discussion: The Bradley Manning Case and Our Decade of Denial [View all]randome
(34,845 posts)13. Understandable. I disagree with him.
Ellsberg was an investigative reporter who ferreted out facts. Manning gave hundreds of thousands of documents to a foreign national. I see a clear difference.
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That's ironic coming from the person spouting military propaganda about oaths and orders.
white_wolf
Dec 2012
#15
And yet Ellsberg does not make that distinction and considers Manning a hero.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#28
Oooh foreign national. Ooh, scary. Actually he turned over the info to a global free press.
Luminous Animal
Dec 2012
#21
Manning and Assange removed the "I knew nothing" defense of those who protect murderers.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Dec 2012
#38