http://www.thiscantbehappening.net/node/1896
As much as the political and military leaders in Washington want us to believe it, the government is not the country. And when Manning provided those documents and videos to Wikileaks, which then turned them over to news organizations like the New York Times and the British Guardian newspaper -- which then ran articles about many of them, recognizing their importance as news -- he was acting in the honored tradition of a truth-teller. He was a leaker, yes, but that’s a good thing. He was not a traitor, and he was not betraying his country. Rather he was honoring his high oath as a soldier: to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States.
It is not Manning who has betrayed his country. It is his country that is betraying Manning.
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