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by mediacrisis 4899 days ago
Not that I agree with Bradley Mannings punishment, but I think a key difference is that he was not a civilian.
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And unlike normal whistleblowers, he wasn't even aware of the contents of the vast majority of classified material he exfiltrated.

Even at the level of "oh those are just diplomatic cables", those cables could just as easily have been "we need to focus on these nuclear weapons assemblies in Fooistan next" and tip off Islamist elements as to where to find their first dirty bomb, as of gossip about Berlusconi.