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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by peteretep on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @07:59PM (#13423097)
How has the public benefitted from any of that? It sounds like your morbid curiosity has been satisfied, but who didn't know Libya under Gaddafi was a cesspit?

    > Unless you think we're better off
    > not knowing about this stuff, that is.
Who didn't already know all of that in broad strokes?
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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by kafkaesq on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:06PM (#13423134)
Who didn't already know all of that in broad strokes?

I guess that argument could be applied to high crimes and corruption of all sorts, just about anywhere: "We already know about that in broad strokes. What good does it do to air all that dirty laundry before the general public?"

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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by peteretep on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:13PM (#13423173) 

    > high crimes
Which these weren't. There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with. cf: Public Interest
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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by stale2002 on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @11:33PM (#13423980)
I am sure that the people that were getting murdered by Gaddafi disagree.
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Re:Obama Commutes Bulk of Chelsea Manning’s Sentence by kafkaesq on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @08:21PM (#13423209)
There's about as much public benefit in knowing how exactly Gaddafi was corrupt as there is in known just how many women Tom Cruise has slept with.

This is, quite frankly, a bizarre equivalence to make.

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