Let us not confuse ourselves with concerns about gender identification. Irrelevant in the larger context. "Eventually, Manning was pulled into that war as a young intelligence analyst. He confronted so much evidence of brutality and dishonesty that he felt compelled to do something about it. What he did in leaking hundreds of thousands of documents to WikiLeaks and, thus, to other news outlets was to supply “ground truth” about war crimes committed in Iraq and Afghanistan. His disclosure of diplomatic cables also gave the American people and the world a glimpse behind the curtain of secrecy that often conceals the dirty dealings of statecraft. Perhaps most significantly, those revelations helped sparked the Arab Spring, giving people of the Middle East a chance to finally take some political control over their own lives. And, by letting Americans in on the truth about Amano’s IAEA, Bradley Manning may have helped prevent a war with Iran."
Posted on: Fri, 23 Aug 2013 06:39:47 +0000
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