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Photos View gallery zoom Featured VideoClose More Video Manning Sentenced to 35 Years in WikiLeaks Case Bradley Manning's supporters react to verdict Assange hails Manning as 'quintessential whistleblower' Snowden Still in Limbo in Moscow Airport Soldier Bradley Manning spilled America’s secrets yet kept his own.The transparency he claims to have pursued — breaking his oath of service to do so,[url=http://www.moncler-jacket.net]moncler outlet[/url], causing immense harm — was strictly political in intent. He was less whistleblower than a loose cannon fomenter in uniform, betraying colleagues-in-arms whose lives were daily at risk fighting wars in two countries.Whether those wars were, are, morally defensible is a debate that has raged for more than a decade. The public conversation, the opening of eyes to combat action in Iraq and Afghanistan that Manning professed was his motivation for illegally turning over more than 700,000 classified files to WikiLeaks while serving as a low-level intelligence analyst in Baghdad, had been long underway in the U.S. and around the world, endlessly dissected before, during and after both invasions.This is a man who wanted to embarrass the government and the military but not necessarily himself.Only at his recent eight-week trial in Fort Meade for the biggest-ever leak of U.S. state secrets in history did Manning’s lawyers finally, overtly, prick the bubble of personal concealment, raising the issue of “gender identity disorder” as a key contributing factor to his emotional distress and deteriorating state of mind, offered as exculpation for the defendant’s crimes against his country.In various online postings in the past, Manning had referred to himself as “Breanna.” Articles about hormone replacement therapy were also found in his Baghdad quarters following arrest. Of course, in that don’t-ask-don’t-tell era, being openly gay meant disbarment from the military — if Manning can now be described as gay, which is substantially different from transgendered, the latter less specifically about sexual orientation.In closing arguments, lead prosecutor Major Ashden Fein countered: “He was not a humanist; he was a hacker who described his fellow soldiers as ‘dykes’ or ‘global idiots.’ He was not a troubled young soul; he was a determined soldier with the ability,[url=http://www.moncler-jacket.net]discount moncler jackets[/url], knowledge and desire to harm the U.S. He was not a whistleblower; he was a traitor.”Manning, 25, was found guilty entirely on 17 out of 22 charges and an amended version of four others. “Guilty,[url=http://www.cnshmo.com/bbs/viewthread.php?tid=267175&extra=]Researchers: Memory lapses may be reason for worry - they could be earliest si[/url], guilty, guilty, guilty . . .” He was acquitted by Judge Colonel Denise Lind on the most serious count of aiding the enemy, which carries a potential life sentence. Instead, Manning was sentenced Wednesday to 35 years in a military prison.Onlookers were aghast at the severity of the sentence. Lind gave Manning credit for 1,294 days spent in pretrial confinement and took into account nine months of “harsh treatment” — solitary. In actuality, at least theoretically, Manning could be eligible for parole after serving eight years. He was also demoted to private, will be dishonourably discharged and can appeal to a higher court. As well, he can seek a lesser sentence from his commanding general. Manning’s lawyer says he will ask U.S. President Barack Obama for clemency.On Thursday, Manning declared that he is a female and wants to be known as Chelsea. The statement was read on the TODAY show by his lawyer, David Coombs.“As I transition into this next phase of my life, I want everyone to know the real me,” the statement said. “I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood,[url=http://www.moncler-jacket.net]womens moncler down coat[/url], I want to begin hormone therapy as soon as possible. I hope that you will support me in this transition.”Manning asked that he henceforth be referred to by the female pronoun.The plea for hormone treatment is most likely genuine, though it might also be seen as an attempt at transfer from the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Tex., where Manning is to serve her sentence. Manning’s lawyer has said she’s expressed no interest in undergoing gender-reassignment surgery. 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However, Manning was also described as having narcissistic tendencies.Court heard that Manning, in an online conversation with the man who eventually turned him in to authorities, said: “I wouldn’t mind going to prison for the rest of my life, or being executed so much, if it wasn’t for the possibility of having pictures of me plastered all over the world press as a boy.”She had anger management issues, once punching a fellow soldier and on another occasion grabbing a gun during a counselling session.This newest development might very well engender further sympathy for the Oklahoma-raised loner with alcoholic parents who excelled at computers and intelligence analysis. But it is a separate issue from the crimes that she committed.Remember what she did, because youthful idealism and naïveté are not relevant to the conviction, nor particularly mitigating factors in sentencing.Manning, with towering egotism, believed she could change the course of two wars by exposing the U.S. military’s “blood lust.” She has said: “I started to question the morality of what we were doing. We had forgotten our humanity.”News to Manning: Nobody had forgotten anything.Unilaterally, clearly breaking the law — which exists whether you like it or not — and ignoring his sworn responsibility to protect intelligence files, Manning copied and disseminated war logs, terror detainee assessments, battlefield accounts and State Department cables, disclosing a treasure trove of documents to WikiLeaks. 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Evidence further showed that Osama bin Laden had obtained — presumably read — some of the leaked documents.A Pentagon investigation concluded troops acted appropriately and had mistaken the journalist’s camera equipment for weapons. I saw the same thing happen in the early days of the American ground-troop invasion of Baghdad.Bradley-Chelsea Manning, now “sorry,” was one deeply neurotic, erratic and reckless soldier,[url=http://www.moncler-jacket.net]moncler on sale[/url], treasonous if not with a capital-T.She is no whistle-blowing heroine.Rosie DiManno usually appears Monday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday
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