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

[LilBambi]

André, thank you for the opensocietyfoundations.org article link.

On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 4:31 AM, André Rebentisch <tabesin at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 21, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Shelley <shelley at misanthropia.info> wrote:
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> Outrageous.
>
> http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/21/bradley-manning-sentence-birgitta-jonsdottir
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> 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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