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

[André Rebentisch]

On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.info> wrote:

> Outrageous.
> 
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/bradley-manning-sentence-birgitta-jonsdottir
> 
> Bradley Manning's sentence: 35 years for exposing us to the truth

From a security perspective the issue is that a soldier of his low rank could do that and apparently it is uncommon in the nation that superiors take political responsibility for critical failures, here of security architecture. What he did was clearly above his pay grade. The whole disproportionate treatment serves deterrence purposes. Puts it in a bad light.

See also the piece of Sandra Coliver for OSI, she compares penal sanctions for corresponding crimes in other occidental nations:
http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/voices/sentencing-private-manning

Best, A
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