[ionised]

> Arguably Manning did endanger the lives of U.S. service members

People said that about Snowden too, but because there was no evidence of this it's all just wild speculation.

[dforrestwilson1]

If you don't think that Pakistani and Iranian intelligence did not pass along the lessons learned to insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan then I don't know what else to say other than this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argument_from_ignorance

[ionised]

Pure assumption based on speculation.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_probability

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burden_of_proof_(law)