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by BookmarkSaver 2399 days ago
>Chelsea Manning was the anonymous whistleblower

Manning was a spiteful security leak, not a whistleblower.

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What huge damage was done to the US government by showing its citizens how its military murders civilians with their tax payer money in war that was against international law and only benefit the political class and security contractors.

It gets so much harder to pretend that they are bringing freedom to the Iraqis. I'm sure the poor government had to double its spending on pro-military propaganda because of this evil spiteful security leak.

What is the difference between those two? Whistleblowers are happy?
Whistleblowers are intentionally exposing a wrong.

Manning was copying any and all classified content and exposing it indiscriminately.

Like, maybe it was important that certain things were exposed, but it wasn't a whistleblower act, it was a spiteful soldier acting out.