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In reply to the discussion: WikiLeaks: Bradley Manning's motives are no defence, judge rules [View all]BainsBane
(53,012 posts)or a deliberately insulting person like you who refuses to provide any evidence that Manning knew anything about contractors raping children before he released the documents. Paper of record or someone who refuses to provide any evidence. I'll go with the former.
Here is what the NYTimes reports the subject of the dumps include:
"¶ A dangerous standoff with Pakistan over nuclear fuel: Since 2007, the United States has mounted a highly secret effort, so far unsuccessful, to remove from a Pakistani research reactor highly enriched uranium that American officials fear could be diverted for use in an illicit nuclear device. In May 2009, Ambassador Anne W. Patterson reported that Pakistan was refusing to schedule a visit by American technical experts because, as a Pakistani official said, if the local media got word of the fuel removal, they certainly would portray it as the United States taking Pakistans nuclear weapons, he argued.
¶ Thinking about an eventual collapse of North Korea: American and South Korean officials have discussed the prospects for a unified Korea, should the Norths economic troubles and political transition lead the state to implode. The South Koreans even considered commercial inducements to China, according to the American ambassador to Seoul. She told Washington in February that South Korean officials believe that the right business deals would help salve Chinas concerns about living with a reunified Korea that is in a benign alliance with the United States.
¶ Bargaining to empty the Guantánamo Bay prison: When American diplomats pressed other countries to resettle detainees, they became reluctant players in a State Department version of Lets Make a Deal. Slovenia was told to take a prisoner if it wanted to meet with President Obama, while the island nation of Kiribati was offered incentives worth millions of dollars to take in Chinese Muslim detainees, cables from diplomats recounted. The Americans, meanwhile, suggested that accepting more prisoners would be a low-cost way for Belgium to attain prominence in Europe.
¶ Suspicions of corruption in the Afghan government: When one of Afghanistans two vice presidents visited the United Arab Emirates last year, local authorities working with the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered that he was carrying $52 million in cash. With wry understatement, a cable from the American Embassy in Kabul called the money a significant amount that the official, Ahmed Zia Massoud, was ultimately allowed to keep without revealing the moneys origin or destination. (Mr. Massoud denies taking any money out of Afghanistan.)
¶ A global computer hacking effort: Chinas Politburo directed the intrusion into Googles computer systems in that country, a Chinese contact told the American Embassy in Beijing in January, one cable reported. The Google hacking was part of a coordinated campaign of computer sabotage carried out by government operatives, private security experts and Internet outlaws recruited by the Chinese government. They have broken into American government computers and those of Western allies, the Dalai Lama and American businesses since 2002, cables said."
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/29/world/29cables.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0
Naturally dumping an additional 250,000 documents unrelated to child rape has no effect on you, as long as you have a good excuse to try to smear a Democratic government and attack those who worked to elect that President. The fact Manning turned the documents over to a man who has allegedly raped several women obviously is inconsequential to you. Who believes women anyway. They are all right wing trolls. It's unfortunate that your ego is so much more important than your desire to spread information on the subject, or you might have written an informed post with evidence rather than relying on simple minded insults. But providing evidence and analysis requires a bit of intelligence and effort, a bar too high for you.