Reply #28: They carefully vetted it. He had no way of guaranteeing that. And they ARE a foreign entity.

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Journalism organization. Pffft. I like what Wikileaks does ultimately, but lets not cheapen the argument by over-romanticizing what they are. Their entire goal is to obtain information that people want to keep secret and expose it to the world. Thats basically makes them a tabloid for intelligence. But even if I played along with your "journalism organization" bit, that wouldn't make them any more or less a foreign entity.

I am glad Wikileaks is good about scrubbing stuff. That doesn't change the fact that Manning dumped all that information into the hands of people that aren't subject to any laws or regulations to prevent them from releasing pieces of the information that could really hurt people. He should have followed the legal path and did this right. There is no good argument against that. None. Zilch. Laws were there to allow him to do this and do it right. He fucked up. He earned everything thats coming to him.