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Leaked Doc May Have Forced US To Speed Up Bin Laden Raid
cf18 writes "Wikileaks released a set of leaked Guantanamo prisoner files to the public last week. Among them is a document dated from 2008, which mentioned both Osama's trusted courier's name and Abbottabad, the city in which Osama had been hiding. There are speculations that, fearing al-Qaida realized their courier may have been tracked and move Osama, the US administration accelerated their plan and attacked the target site over the weekend. This link highlights the relevant section of the document."
No, it would be better to live in a representative democracy with checks, balances and a centuries-long tradition of government accountability, the rule of law, freedom of the press, and the accumulated cultural wisdom of all citizens which allows them to know when to publish a leaked document to expose corruption and when to sit on it. Oh wait, that's what we've got.
I understand that from much of Europe and Asia, "democracy" "freedom" and "accountability" are just words, but here in America, we've had it going in more or less working order for several hundred years, and when we grumble about idiots like Assange and Manning making trouble, we generally tend to know what we're talking about.
Your ad hominem attacks do nothing to me, but they make you look like an asshole. Manning is a criminal, and he did it for a stupid and selfish reason.
Manning was trained to keep his fellow soldiers and his nation safe, and he betrayed us all because he refused to simply point out to his commanders that he knew of illegally classified material, and keep pointing it out to Inspectors General and Commanders until he found one who wasn't willing to conspire to keep the information illegally classified. He chose instead to aggrandize himself in a childish manner, at the behest of the mental midgets at Wikileaks.
He did the wrong thing, and that's all we've ever been discussing.
It doesn't matter what you personally claim to believe about the effects of his actions. The potential and the betrayal are enough to make it among the highest crimes defined in this country. The information he delivered has damaged intelligence efforts around the world and especially in the Afghan and Iraqi theaters. He vastly increased the threat to our intelligence assets and to his fellow soldiers. Fragging is too good for him.
A blind attempt to prevent the status from being quo is the stupidest reason to commit a crime.