US military prosecutors want life sentence for private Bradley Manning (25) responsible for top leaks to Wikileaks.
Today’s cartoon: soldier’s fate
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4th March 2013, 12:29
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Sure: being in military, Mr Manning broke the rules. Overly harsh state level revenge, however, will never reverse the leak. Neither will forceful repression of a soldier, naïve perhaps in his ideals, negate the fact that classified info would never had leaked without being widely and easily accessed by US state officials.