Re: WikiLeaks

On 02/12/2010, at 3:23 PM, Doug Pensinger wrote:

> Jon wrote:
> 
>> Anyone with clearance to that level is
>> personally responsible and signed an oath.
>> 23-year-old, Bradley Manning, a US army
>> intelligence analyst, e-mailed former hacker,
>> Adrian Lamo, bragging that he leaked the
>> diplomatic cables to WikiLeaks, along with a
>> highly classified video of U.S. forces killing
>> unarmed civilians in Baghdad.  He is currently
>> being held and charged with transferring
>> classified national defense information to an
>> unauthorized source. He faces court martial
>> and up to 52 years in prison.
>> Jon Mann
> 
> They teach you in the military that there are such things as illegal
> orders. I would argue that there should also be illegal secrecy.
> Keeping a war crime a secret would qualify.

Precisely. If that argument is not successfully made in his defence, then the USA is further down the road to hell than I have feared.

Charlie.