Manning has been found not guilty of aiding the enemy

He's still facing a potential life in prison sentence for all the other charges, so being found note guilty of this one charge was kinda moot.

I'm personally torn. On one hand, what he did -- or rather the way he did it -- was wrong. On the other -- like Snowden -- it was necessary.

Wayne
 
Wayne said:
I'm personally torn. On one hand, what he did -- or rather the way he did it -- was wrong. On the other -- like Snowden -- it was necessary.
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Snodewn's father:
"As a father it pains me what he did," Snowden said. "I wish my son could simply have sat in Hawaii and taken the big paycheck, lived with his beautiful girlfriend and enjoyed paradise. But as an American citizen, I am absolutely thankful for what he did."
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Perhaps someone needs to make a How To YouTube video on how to divulge top secret government documents without divulging your own identity.
 
someone needs to make an APP for that

:D
 
Glaucus said:
Perhaps someone needs to make a How To YouTube video on how to divulge top secret government documents without divulging your own identity.
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Youd think that would be the obvious way to go - and quite a few things are leaked annonymously. Sometimes things just show up in reporters in boxes, but then they have to be investigated and vetted and put on the back burner to wait for confirmatory leaks etc. Having a person who can be identified to demonstrate the provenance and the meaning of the leaked information makes it much more likely the information is used.
 
FluffyMcDeath said:
Youd think that would be the obvious way to go - and quite a few things are leaked annonymously. Sometimes things just show up in reporters in boxes, but then they have to be investigated and vetted and put on the back burner to wait for confirmatory leaks etc. Having a person who can be identified to demonstrate the provenance and the meaning of the leaked information makes it much more likely the information is used.
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I think the shear quantity of documents (especially in Manning's case) makes that less important. Sure, leaking a single memo or whatever would require validation. Still, I'd assume that wikileaks should make that all far easier these days.
 
Glaucus said:
Still, I'd assume that wikileaks should make that all far easier these days.
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When every transaction on the web is monitored? I think you need out of band ways of doing things. Of course they can't actually analyze and act on all of it in real time but I bet they assign resources to known "threat" networks like tracking the ins and outs of wikileak routed packets even if the contents are encrypted.

However, it wasn't wikileaks that divulged Manning's identity- it was Adrian Lamo, who probably had a relationship with the intelligence agencies so that he wouldn't have to spend his entire life in jail. That's sort of the deal convicted hackers are expected to make.
 
Yes, Manning made the mistake of trusting someone. That was kinda naive.
 
It's almost if the "I Support our Troops" bumper sticker means except for - vaginas, fags, and whistleblowers.
 
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