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In reply to the discussion: Bradley Manning is a hero and a freedom fighter. [View all]NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)Told us about deliberate coverups and misrepresentation of Iraqi and Afghan casualties, DoD contractors abusing children in Afghanistan, the US looking the other way when the Iraqi Security Forces tortures its prisoners, the State Department actively working to screw Haitian workers out of a minimum wage increase, the US training Egyptian torturers, and deliberate efforts to cover up the drone strikes in Yemen.
So, let's see: innocent people being killed, children being raped, torture, government backing corporate interests and screwing the poor, more torture, and more innocent people being killed and deliberately covered up. You know, stuff progressives should be angry about.
In other words, he embarrassed TPTB, and he had to pay for it.