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In reply to the discussion: Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to Expose War Crimes [View all]7962
(11,841 posts)18. Good answer!! He could have exposed the few bad things
without exposing so much other intelligence and putting so many lives at risk. No telling how many were killed BECAUSE of him. The fact is, he had a gripe against the Army more than trying to expose a war crime. And he chose the wrong way to "get back" at them.
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Why should he be pardoned? He had the option of whistleblowing under the law, and he chose a
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#7
I think he had personal motivations related to his interpersonal conflicts. Nothing
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#24
"MSM" had nothing to do with the options he had to report the few items of wrongdoing.
stevenleser
Jun 2013
#121
Really? His buddy Libby covered for him in the Valerie Plame affair and took the fall by
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#81
An elected official is always under oath, or didn't you know that? When one of them
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#125
You're seriously defending Cheney now? The Constitution is the Statute, the law of the
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#139
Well, the 'perhaps' part is the problem....while I would love to see Cheney behind
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#66
Okay---take the report, and tell me what you would charge Cheney with. I don't disagree
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#72
We should have had that material made available to us right here in the US for the past 60
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#87
I don't believe anyone said that diplomats shouldn't be able to speak to each in confidence
sabrina 1
Jun 2013
#138
Every criminal torturer in the CIA, DOJ's OLC and war criminals Bush & Cheney
Dragonfli
Jun 2013
#120
He should have utilized the Army IG or written to his Congressman. He did neither. His
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#4
That's true, I just presumed he would use his local representative to do that.
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#11
No--any Congressperson will do. That way, if Ted Cruz is your Senator, you can still
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#12
I agreed with you. I just presumed he would have written to his local representative,
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#35
One of the stupider articles published at Truthout--and that's really saying a lot.
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#5
The writer of the article is sloppy. I think that's worse than being wrong in the case of
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#41
700k records, and people pretend he read them. The more I find out about him,
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#29
I've already shown in another thread that it would have taken him approximately ten years
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#37
The farthest left, donation cup in hand, have a reason for pushing that meme--it makes
msanthrope
Jun 2013
#39
Which one of the over 700k documents he released detailed a war crime? The answer is
SlimJimmy
Jun 2013
#54
The result of looking forward. It's all fine now that the blue jerseys are the perpetrators. n/t
Egalitarian Thug
Jun 2013
#101
It blames Obama for a "war crime" in the last paragraph and that's all the law it needs:
ucrdem
Jun 2013
#73
The guys who murdered the civilians walk free while the guy who exposed them is on trial.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Jun 2013
#80
Three separate wars crimes associated with one attack: wonder if there were others?
indepat
Jun 2013
#102
A war of aggression is a war crime under international law. All that follows in commission of a war
indepat
Jun 2013
#142
Bradley Manning's Legal Duty to follow the Military Whistleblower Protection Act
hack89
Jun 2013
#136