http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-4312-the-passion-of-bradley-manning-and-writing-letters-to-bradley Exposing war crimes is not a crime! Tue, 04 Jun 2013 18:10:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-4312-the-passion-of-bradley-manning-and-writing-letters-to-bradley#comment-11656 Ginny Powers Wed, 01 May 2013 03:36:46 +0000 http://bradleymanning.org/?p=22977#comment-11656 I am in my late eighties and my daughter is in her 60′s. We are both in total support of you. In my lifetime, I have never felt so ashamed and saddened by our own government keeping our citizens from the truth. We wish you well in every way, now and during your trial. We hope that you are well aware of the thousands of people who give their thanks for exposing truth.

]]> http://bradleymanning.org/press/update-4312-the-passion-of-bradley-manning-and-writing-letters-to-bradley#comment-3229 Gary palmer Wed, 18 Apr 2012 21:20:04 +0000 http://bradleymanning.org/?p=22977#comment-3229 He has been called a whistle-blower. Well that term is reserved for persons who find details or possible evidence that supports an assertion that criminal or unethical behavior is taking or has taken place inside an organization that they belong to, work for, or are associated with. Most or all use personal knowledge of wrong doings to accompany items they provide as proof.
To say that Manning had personnel knowledge of the contents of 500,000+ documents (some classified) is hard to believe if not patently absurd. Without knowing for sure (I have yet to fully complete the computations) I believe that he has spent more time in his young life listening to Lady Gaga’s music than reading any of the documents he so nonchalantly handed over to Julian Assange and company. He probably had no real idea of just what he was divulging to those that made it public knowledge. He simply had access to the material and was not involved in any activity that surrounded any of it. Therefore, he is not a whistle-blower, rather he is a misguided victim of his own desire to gain some sort of accolade at the cost of his honor and any patriotism he may have had. He seems to have knowingly divulged material that he took an oath to keep confidential without trying to use the proper channels in his command structure as a first resort (of course the retort will be that he could not trust them) to ease what he claims was an affront to his conscience. In my mind, having also had access to sensitive material in the past, that is questionable activity and, because of the sensitivity of the material and the possible harm its release may have caused the USA, grounds for a trial are certainly justified. I don’t know how he was approached or if he approached first but Manning is not blameless in this and he must be brought to trial to see if he still deserves the privilege of being called a citizen of the United States of America.

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