[sensanaty]

> He would have had the chance to go to trial and defend himself and seek whistleblower protection status...

In what universe would the US Gov't not just ship him off to some blacksite on a remote island somewhere and disappear him forever?

[saalweachter]

Now I'm not going to say the sentence Chelsea Manning received was fair or that I'd be down for going through what she did, or pretend that her life will ever go back to normal, but can we not act like we don't have multiple, recent whistleblower/leakers who have served their time and been released from jail?

For all conspiracy theorists like to talk about it, there is remarkably little disappearing going on in the US, even when intelligence agencies are involved.