On Sunday, April 14, 2019 at 1:26:18 PM UTC-4, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Saturday, April 13, 2019 at 10:27:50 PM UTC-4, Rod Speed wrote:
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On Sat, 13 Apr 2019 21:18:21 -0400, Home Guy wrote:

While needlessly full-quoting, wrote:

Manning only did 7 years and we had it red handed for
over a dozen espionage charges while in uniform. In any earlier time
that should have been the firing squad.

For exposing US war crimes, Manning should have been put to death?

Do you know how sickening that is?

And you bomb, invade, destabilize and destroy other countries when you
think (or when you false-flag) war crimes are happening there.

There are no bigger hypocrits and schizophrenics on planet earth than
americans.

Do you remember what the Pentagon Papers were all about?

Do you really want to bury your head that far down deep into your ass
and kill those that expose your country's war crimes?

Is that how sick your are as a person, or a country?

I am just not sure I want privates in the army to be able to decide
which secrets are OK to release and which ones are not.

Doesn't matter what you want.

Buried in a big data dump like that can contain information
about agents in the field or operations that are still active.

Just as true of what Elsberg exposed.

BS. Ellsberg did not hand over raw, unfiltered data from cables and
the like, which is what Manning did. He handed over a study of the
US involvement in the Vietnam War, which was very unlikely to have any
identifying information in it that could expose US agents, methods, etc..

Thats bull**** on the methods.

The Pentagon had prepared it and there was no
reason to ever put that kind of information in it.

Thats bull**** on the methods and if it was that useless
to anyone why did it have such a high security rating ?

That's stupid even for you. The Pentagon Paper were classified because
it was a review of how the US got into the war, how it got escalated,
it's status, what the reality was, etc. That doesn't mean that names
of agents, intel methods, etc were needed to be in there. It had been
written and reviewed with the intention of it being distributed within
the govt, anything that could disclose agents, methods, etc, would have
been taken out. And further, it went to NY Times and WAPO, who would
try not to print anything they thought would endanger anyone or methods.
That's very different than a Snowden or Manning just dumping raw files.







Further, he turned the PP over to NY Times and
WAPO, responsible news organizations that would
further try to keep from publishing anything like that.

Just as true of wikileaks.

BS. Assange doesn't give a rat's ass what he puts out.