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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by the_duke on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @05:35PM (#13422113)
By whose definition?

Since you went there:

Oxford dictionary says: "A person who informs on a person or organization engaged in an illicit activity."

What is illicit? : "Forbidden by law, rules, or custom."

Is what the cables actually revealed customary? Probably.

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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by kbenson on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @07:45PM (#13423019)
> By whose definition?

By the definition set forth in the law[1][2], but it's not just crimes. There is a list of specifically acceptably things.

1: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-103/pdf/STATUTE-103-Pg...

2: https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/5/2302

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