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by avolcano 4928 days ago
Can you actually, you know, read the article before commenting on it? It's not very long.

Here, I'll help by pasting one of the more important paragraphs right here:

At Quantico, Pfc. Manning treatment wasn’t by the book: the sleep depravation and stripping of clothes; the humiliation; the taunts and mockery; the nine months of putting Pfc. Manning in protected custody citing concerns over suicide—concerns that were rebuffed relentlessly by both Pfc. Manning himself and qualified psychiatrists. That’s why Coombs is looking to have the case against his client thrown out, and Manning’s own testimony this week only accentuated the living nightmare he was made to endure for nearly a year while only a half-hour drive from the capital of the nation. As testimonies from Quantico staff, health professionals, and the private himself continued late into the night all week, often for hours without intermissions, more unraveled about not just the torturous conditions imposed on Pfc. Manning but the blatant mismanagement in the same institution he is accused of blowing the whistle on.

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Oh I saw that: Manning's crime wasn't quiet by the book either. Never in America's History has a natural born citizen released so much private government data for no other reason than to allow his country men to be embarrassed and slaughtered.

But the article completely ignores his crime, making him sound like a mistreated child, not a treasonous bastard

What is so bad about what he did? Someone had a video of a helicopter shooting children, and he gave that video to the media. Technically treason, but is it really that bad? Who is the victim of this crime?
Technically treason — the best kind of treason
Technically treason, but is it really that bad?

-- WAT?

There were a couple extra "bits" in there, maybe you missed them.

> ...for no other reason...

Bias, exposed.

Yup! I would shout it from the rooftops! I hate people who betray their friends family and fellow countrymen! Who break their word and pass off information that will definitely lead to their friend's death!