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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by harry8 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @06:19PM (#13422452)
Manning intended to remain anonymous. Snowden always intended to take personal public responsibility for his whistleblowing.

They did it different, different tools for different purposes. Comparing them like for like is not a good comparison.

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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by hendersoon on Wednesday January 18, 2017 @11:02AM (#13427294)
Snowden took personal responsibility for a single reason-- so the news would talk about the leaks, rather than the effort to find the leaker. He didn't want the conversation to be about Edward Snowden. He was largely successful.
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