Re:Jailed Iranian Activist Narges Mohammadi Wins 2023 Nobel ...
by nobodynobody on Friday October 06, 2023 @10:19AM
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> Exposure like the footage they revealed of US drones killing innocent civilians?
Manning exfiltrated around 750,000 classified and sensitive documents to Wikileaks, not just war footage. He did this indiscriminately and with intent to cause as much damage as possible to the organization he worked for. He's no heroic whistleblower, this was him exercising a grudge.
It's unfortunate that Obama commuted his sentence, he really should have been incarcerated for the full 35 years, given the seriousness of his crimes and the huge negative impact he had.
Manning exfiltrated around 750,000 classified and sensitive documents to Wikileaks, not just war footage. He did this indiscriminately and with intent to cause as much damage as possible to the organization he worked for. He's no heroic whistleblower, this was him exercising a grudge.
It's unfortunate that Obama commuted his sentence, he really should have been incarcerated for the full 35 years, given the seriousness of his crimes and the huge negative impact he had.