Reply #14: The "channels" are broken. Remember Karen Kwiatkowski?

[librechik]

Since Bush, it doesn't work to report wrongdoing through the proper channels. You just get a boot in the teeth. I applaud your loyalty, even in the face of Bush crimes, but I am glad there are others who have had enough, and take extra-legal action to make a point--especially if the action seems to be protected by the first amendment, (in one perspective.) I celebrate Daniel Ellsberg--and I respect Bradley Manning's act of defiance.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Kwiatkowski (did the right thing but her superiors dumped her info--so 9/11 happened)