Re: U.S. Tries to Build Case Against WikiLeaks Founder

>**But he is military.  Even if he was put into lighter confinement it would be more harsh than civilian, and the absolute best he could have hoped for was confinement to his barracks where he would have been a target for massive abuse.<

 

Um... you mean he should have just followed orders?  

 

**or at least established procedures.  Had he done so and still found no one to take it seriously, fine.  But that also assumes there was a legitimate problem to be reported.  With the Afghanistan leaks, maybe.  Not with the state department leaks.  He has no excuse there.

 

I ask that finding myself having a very hard time getting worked up about the Wikileaks thing.  If they are trying to build a conspiracy case against Assange that tells me that have no legitimate case against him.  

 

**they know that an espionage case will be tough.  Conspiracy is a no brainer.

 

 

And Manning seems like such a small cog in the machine that I have a hard time feeling antagonistic towards him.  

 

**he was the source, wasn’t he?  And what if he had released something really dangerous?  Design of a nuke?  Locations of places Al Qaeda wants to infiltrate.

 

The “secrets” he revealed don’t look to me to have had much to do with national security, unless of course one thinks that what the TSA does has something to do with national security.  

 

**The first set about Afghanistan revelaed confidential informants in afghanistan and we are still not sure if any of them were endangered.  If even one of them has been harmed, does that change anything?  The state department stuff, I agree it is a different matter, but even then, the potential for harm to us is there.

 

And I’m really hoping Assange gets around to releasing all the BoA stuff he has.  That said Assange does seem like a real douchebag but that doesn’t mean he can’t be serving a useful purpose. 

 

**better hoe he expunges your bank account number.

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