Developing: Whistleblower Chelsea Manning Taken to Hospital

[MADem]

86. I don't think she was whistle blowing.

Whistle blowing involves vetting the material one blows that whistle about. She didn't do that at ALL.

She just ripped off stuff wholesale and sent it to wikileaks, without a care for interpreters, civilian contract employees, and operatives named in the traffic.

She got an appropriate sentence. It's a shame her unhappiness caused her to act out in such a consequential way for her, but she's a cautionary tale.

When you join the military, you take an oath--and those orders are orders, they're not invitations and they sure as hell aren't suggestions. No one is drafted, it is their choice to serve--and if one makes the choice, one needs to take it seriously. This is pounded into recruits in boot camp and in advanced training, particularly to those in the intel-related fields.

She knew what she was doing was wrong, she knew her actions had extreme repercussions, particularly during wartime, yet she did it anyway--it's almost like she was knowingly committing suicide-by-cop, but in her case, it was suicide-by-UCMJ. JMO, of course, YMMV.