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Irrelevant if none of them were killed. Doesn't that just sum up your whole argument?I'm sorry, one member of the Senate who has a history of giving wrong information. Pass.Of which there is no evidence.He aided the enemy that was the big charge against him he also violated the espionage act by leaking the documents to wikileaks.
(a)Whoever knowingly and willfully communicates, furnishes, transmits, or otherwise makes available to an unauthorized person, or publishes, or uses in any manner prejudicial to the safety or interest of the United States or for the benefit of any foreign government to the detriment of the United States any classified information—
(1)
concerning the nature, preparation, or use of any code, cipher, or cryptographic system of the United States or any foreign government; or
(2)
concerning the design, construction, use, maintenance, or repair of any device, apparatus, or appliance used or prepared or planned for use by the United States or any foreign government for cryptographic or communication intelligence purposes; or
(3)
concerning the communication intelligence activities of the United States or any foreign government; or
(4)
obtained by the processes of communication intelligence from the communications of any foreign government, knowing the same to have been obtained by such processes—
Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
18 U.S. Code § 798 - Disclosure of classified information
It wasn’t necessary to prove he intended to have those documents published in the first place but the assertion that he released them to wikileaks without intending to have them published is too laughable for words.
Not to mention those that may have died because of what that POS did.
He also put troops in harms way.
They should have charged him with treason and executed that sorry bastard.
Bradley Manning leak did not result in deaths by enemy forces, court hears
Not according to Ex Officio member of the Senate Intelligence Committee John McCain:
: It’s just outrageous. This individual put the lives of people who were helping us in danger. There was lists of names of people who were working for the United States of America and put their lives in danger. And the reports that I have is that some of those people were killed. This is just, this is kind of a metaphor, again, a metaphor for the entire Obama administration as far as its conduct of foreign policy is concerned. And speaking as a person who cares about those who assist the United States of America, as so many did, this sends the wrong signal, my friend.
Senator John McCain On The New President And The Defense Rebuild « The Hugh Hewitt Show
It really is irrelevant even if none of them were killed Manning still aided the enemy by outing hundreds of Afghan confidential informants.