Copying and pasting from Wikipedia does not all of the sudden make it OK for anyone to just decide that something should not be classified and release it publicly.
there is no official procedure for exposing crimes committed by the government.
If Manning had specific evidence that the US government was suppressing evidence of American soldiers slaughtering civilians, there are proper channels for reporting that information. The Office of Special Counsel provides "a safe conduit for the receipt and evaluation of whistleblower disclosures from federal employees, former employees, and applicants for federal employment." If he gets no resolution from there he could if he wanted to (at great risk to himself) go public with that information. ALL the information must be related to the SPECIFIC issue at hand. Any classified information NOT RELATED to the alleged activity is NOT subject to whistleblower protection.
Unless ALL 100K diplomatic cables were related specifically to the US government suppressing evidence of American soldiers slaughtering civilians, Manning is toast. Manning has no more authority than you do or I do, to just decide something should be declassified, regardless how we feel about it.
What specific criminal activity was he trying to expose before he released those documents? Were all 100k classified documents supporting that specific criminal activity? How much of those secrets had nothing to do with the specific criminal activity?
If you have evidence of a specific crime, the whistleblower act might protect you somewhat for only that evidence. (IANAL). However, if you just decide to release a bunch of classified documents because you are pissed off at the government and you think there might be something in there to give them a black eye, well, you're on your own.
Neither is releasing 100K classified documents just because maybe there might be something in there that might be incriminating. If you got specific evidence of something illegal there are proper ways to handle that. Publishing hundreds of thousands of basically unrelated secrets because someone might find something not so nice in there is not a soldier's right, duty and obligation.
People with clearance do not have the authority to just decide something should be declassified and released publicly regardless of their reason for doing so. It does not matter if you feel the country is better off or not, who knows, it very well may be. It is not up to you or a random PFC to make that determination.
The other day I was updating some apps on my daughters iPod and a message popped up that the EULA had changed and I had to accept the new terms. After scanning over the first page I got to the bottom that said page 1 of 63... This of course brought out the "laugh of disbelief" followed by "whatever" and a prompt click on "Agree".
I don't think the attacker is so much interested in the "sudo service apache2 restart" command but rather the response to the password prompt immediately following...
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Eh, it's not the OP's math. That was the number spun on Groklaw's site. While it's technically correct the way it's worded on Groklaw makes it sound better than it actually is. Contrary to popular belief, Groklaw, while an awesome resource on our side, it isn't entirely unbiased.
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Damn that's fast!
McDonalds hamburger hardly qualifies as neatly-dissected...
-- Cheering American
However, if your amateur cat video just happens to have Prince playing in the background, the video will be taken down and the cat euthanized...
Awesome! Sorry, no mod points this morning...
I used to think the brain was the most amazing organ in the body. But then I thought, look who's telling me that...
Technically, Ramen noodles and the flavor pack that goes in it do not really count as cooking multiple things...
I have to agree. If it can't stand on its own merits then it doesn't need to be a law.
Please... I'm suggesting that NO ONE has the authority to leak classified documents. Nice straw man though...
Copying and pasting from Wikipedia does not all of the sudden make it OK for anyone to just decide that something should not be classified and release it publicly.
Wrong, please refer to the Office of Special Counsel.
If Manning had specific evidence that the US government was suppressing evidence of American soldiers slaughtering civilians, there are proper channels for reporting that information. The Office of Special Counsel provides "a safe conduit for the receipt and evaluation of whistleblower disclosures from federal employees, former employees, and applicants for federal employment." If he gets no resolution from there he could if he wanted to (at great risk to himself) go public with that information. ALL the information must be related to the SPECIFIC issue at hand. Any classified information NOT RELATED to the alleged activity is NOT subject to whistleblower protection.
Unless ALL 100K diplomatic cables were related specifically to the US government suppressing evidence of American soldiers slaughtering civilians, Manning is toast. Manning has no more authority than you do or I do, to just decide something should be declassified, regardless how we feel about it.
What specific criminal activity was he trying to expose before he released those documents? Were all 100k classified documents supporting that specific criminal activity? How much of those secrets had nothing to do with the specific criminal activity?
If you have evidence of a specific crime, the whistleblower act might protect you somewhat for only that evidence. (IANAL). However, if you just decide to release a bunch of classified documents because you are pissed off at the government and you think there might be something in there to give them a black eye, well, you're on your own.
Neither is releasing 100K classified documents just because maybe there might be something in there that might be incriminating. If you got specific evidence of something illegal there are proper ways to handle that. Publishing hundreds of thousands of basically unrelated secrets because someone might find something not so nice in there is not a soldier's right, duty and obligation.
People with clearance do not have the authority to just decide something should be declassified and released publicly regardless of their reason for doing so. It does not matter if you feel the country is better off or not, who knows, it very well may be. It is not up to you or a random PFC to make that determination.
The other day I was updating some apps on my daughters iPod and a message popped up that the EULA had changed and I had to accept the new terms. After scanning over the first page I got to the bottom that said page 1 of 63... This of course brought out the "laugh of disbelief" followed by "whatever" and a prompt click on "Agree".
I was going to do that but then my parents got upset when I started digging dirt away from the foundation.
I don't think the attacker is so much interested in the "sudo service apache2 restart" command but rather the response to the password prompt immediately following...
It took me a month to get through "Teach Yourself Game Programming in 24 Hours"...
From the book:
Dogs and cats living together! Mass hysteria!
Arrrr... ye be a scurvy dog fer thinkin there need be less appreciation fer the land-lubbers who be keepin yer ships afloat!
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I see what you did there...
Best. Spoiler. Ever!
But we lost Babylon 5. I was working my way through the seasons again... :-(
Why have I never heard anyone actually say a disparaging word about it?.
You must be new here...
Eh, it's not the OP's math. That was the number spun on Groklaw's site. While it's technically correct the way it's worded on Groklaw makes it sound better than it actually is. Contrary to popular belief, Groklaw, while an awesome resource on our side, it isn't entirely unbiased.