[liberationtech] Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

[Shelley]

Interesting and poignant commentary.

Even with the possible negative aspects of the cable releases, the only person being punished is Manning.  (And by extension, Assange, confined to the Ecuadorean embassy in London because he can't resolve his legal issues in Sweden for fear of extradition to the USA.)

To the best of my knowledge, no one has been held to account for the crimes and offenses Manning helped to expose.


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On Aug 21, 2013 2:30 PM, Maxim Kammerer <mk at dee.su> wrote: 

On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:59 PM, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.info> wrote:

> Sure, but I think Manning has a zero chance of obtaining a pardon.



Col. Morris Davis: “Military has detailed regs on confinement credits

& parole eligibility. My best est is he'll do about 8-9 yrs, out by

age 33-34.”

https://twitter.com/ColMorrisDavis/status/370223513400913920

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_Davis



If true, a pretty fitting sentence, I think, for indiscriminately

publishing huge amount of classified information that potentially

endangered many people, and considering that USA has unusually harsh

sentences for a developed country.



An interesting comment on Reddit, of all places:

“Significant amounts of foreign service agent names were released.

These are civilians working for their government in some official

capacity (think spies, except not all of them are cloak and dagger

types). These were people stationed in hostile countries (Pakistan, SE

Asia, Middle East, Africa) and if their cover had been blown while in

country they could have been sought out.

Luckily, as I understand it most of the people that were exposed were

notified by their handlers in advance (basically as soon as word go

out that diplomatic cables had been compromised) and were extracted. A

friend of mine works in a field that draws a lot of foreign service

agents to it due to the nature of the work, and they were camped out

in northern Pakistan with her crew. She woke up one morning (the

morning after the diplomatic cables were released) and half her crew

was gone. They got word in the middle of the night and left. They

couldn't even tell the people they were with why they were gone, and I

imagine it was quite unsettling to be there and be missing people all

of the sudden.”

http://www.reddit.com/r/news/comments/1kszc9/bradley_manning_sentenced_to_35_years_in_jail/cbsg58x



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