Connie Chung, communist spy reporter for ABC: applauds manning for downing US secrets
http://abcnews.go.com/US/chelsea-manning-explains-leaked-secret-military-documents-fought/story?id=47931325
Manning said she leaked the documents because she wanted to spark public debate. She said she didn't think leaking them would threaten national security. dealt with it daily, and believed news reporters should get it (and had petitioned an upper officer to do so failingly)
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my take is: exactly the story i expected and told others i thought would be released. the military was harsh on breach of duty but the sensitivity of breach was never underlined by those prosecuting. can't have soldiers who disobey unless it's the officer who get's proved court-marshalled for war misdemeanors (which in this case can't happen as 7 yr have gone by).
(me personally? i still have been given no exemplar of anything damaging EXCEPT that the format of these communicae could reveal things that are supposed to remain ... un-deciphed, having copia out there pressures security people to an expensive re-work ... which they were doing anyhow but! manning still doesn't seem to realize why the enemy is never to see how we communicate and what we say especially from officers who were told no. however but OBAMA.gov did worse than manning: the worse security breaches in history and not by manning either. i don't know connie chung isn't lying about manning seeing the info daily and being jaded by it's security level - she's a commie i trust nothing she says as to that)
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