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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by coldtea on Friday April 05, 2019 @04:08AM (#19580664)
>The system is not perfect, but the reason Manning went to jail is because she made an indiscriminate leak of secrets of which she did not review before she released them.

And what gives a government a right to have secrets in the first place? Except itself of course...

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Re:Ecuador to Expel Assange Within ‘Hours to Days,’ WikiLeak... by wmil on Saturday April 06, 2019 @11:55PM (#19594737)
Normal operation of government is going to require some secrets.

One of the things leaked by Manning was blunt assessments of foreign figures by diplomatic staff. That's exactly the sort of thing that needs to be kept secret for international relations to function.

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