hey man that's entirely up to you, snowden though, considering the treatment Kirakou and Manning have received, I honestly don't blame him for fleeing.Interesting. Yeah. So, I can then see Snowden as a wb, or not?
Who said that? I like quotes. Wait, was it Wiki-man?
Protections available under any administration that are enacted into law. There are defined procedures to be followed.Protections available to whistle-blowers under the Obama administration? Pull the other one champ...
Except there were no war crimes. No war crimes means no justification.That classified information by the way revealed wrong doing and what basically amounted to war crimes. You should been happy with the "collateral murder" video as it's supports your position of US troops having NO responsibility to mitigate civilian casualties in war zones.
How could you possibly say no Americans were killed because of the disclosure? How could you possibly know?The main thing linking him to the "aiding the enemy" charge is the DVD recovered from UBL's compound containing the Wikileaks disclosures - testified to by the SEAL that found the DVD. Ironically no Americans were killed because of the disclosure, unfortunately we cannot say the same about the white house disclosing details on the unit that conducted the raid.
Irrelevant. Whether such a decision was made on a whim or not has nothing to do with the fact that it was a violation of duty, a violation of established procedure for airing grievances, and illegal.As with the majority of these people, do you think such a life altering decision is just made on a whim? There is absolutely nothing to gain for these people by them disclosing info, their lives and that of their families is basically ruined. "In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act"
You are portraying an idiot with all this personal innuendo. When you were in Nam you were probably Ho Chi Min's bestTokeprep would have been Nixon's greatest ally.
You were in Nam?You are portraying an idiot with all this personal innuendo. When you were in Nam you were probably Ho Chi Min's best
friend. I know I was.
But, Nixon tangled us with China and Nam is over.
This self rule you're always touting around is nothing but a dream/myth/mirage. You have no idea what your government is doing, where it's doing it or how much it's costing and so on... Self rule incorporates oversight/accountability, there is none within the US government, congress is inept and should ALL be fired, executive is accountable to no one, regardless of what it says on a piece of paper.Right is fucking right. There are Powerful Senators' Aids to contact if you really want to Deep Throat the assholes....weird context, I guess.
We have 3 Branches of govt, and they are each designed to screw the others.
But, if you surface, in the modern enemy of our System, you are a Traitor. Incarcerated at that airport.
I've been there. It is rotten. We will get a hold of him. They will use that, this fall.
This fall the PUBS will trot out BenGay, the IRS, and the NSA.
Obama will need this Win from Putin. Get the Spy! Putin knows that and it will cost us.
Self Rule, Fuck Yeah!
Daniel Ellsberg leaked specific classified information to senators, think tanks, and journalists, in order to expose all of the outright lies that had been told about Vietnam. He expended substantial effort urging influential senators to make the disclosure for him, before the media published anything.Tokeprep would have been Nixon's greatest ally.
If you're unwilling to perform your duties, don't voluntarily enlist in the United States Army. If you're unhappy, that's irrelevant; if you don't think a policy is wise, that's irrelevant; if your judgment is that some piece of classified information should not be classified, that's irrelevant. A private does not get to make these decisions.
I think we're missing the point of my comment about majority opinion. I meant that people have no interest in Bradley Manning's case because they consider him a traitor--they think he's guilty and they want him jailed. There's no drama in it.
Classified information? Do you mean the government keeps secrets from the public? Gee I thought government was "open and accountable" ?Daniel Ellsberg leaked specific classified information to senators, think tanks, and journalists, in order to expose all of the outright lies that had been told about Vietnam. He expended substantial effort urging influential senators to make the disclosure for him, before the media published anything.
Bradley Manning indiscriminately dumped vast quantities of classified information into any willing hands, and there were no crimes revealed. The situations are not at all comparable.
Classified information? Do you mean the government keeps secrets from the public? Gee I thought government was "open and accountable" ?
As i've stated before - Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.Daniel Ellsberg leaked specific classified information to senators, think tanks, and journalists, in order to expose all of the outright lies that had been told about Vietnam. He expended substantial effort urging influential senators to make the disclosure for him, before the media published anything.
Bradley Manning indiscriminately dumped vast quantities of classified information into any willing hands, and there were no crimes revealed. The situations are not at all comparable.
After the New York Times had been enjoined from publishing the Pentagon Papers — on June 15, 1971, the first prior restraint on a newspaper in U.S. history — and I had given another copy to The Post (which would also be enjoined), I went underground with my wife, Patricia, for 13 days. My purpose (quite like Snowden’s in flying to Hong Kong) was to elude surveillance while I was arranging — with the crucial help of a number of others, still unknown to the FBI — to distribute the Pentagon Papers sequentially to 17 other newspapers, in the face of two more injunctions. The last three days of that period was in defiance of an arrest order: I was, like Snowden now, a “fugitive from justice.”
He made the right call for a Russian spy.As i've stated before - Snowden made the right call when he fled the U.S.
sorry champ, philby and hanssen are russian spies...He made the right call for a Russian spy.
the rosenbergs were executed no? As for ares, who knows, not to many files floating around on him... (two oldest jobs you know, prostitution and spying) But the greeks started human intel so it wouldn't surprise me.Well, how about the Rosenbergs or Ares?
The only difference is they got caught. If we catch him, there will be no difference. He is a spy that escaped to Russia.
A spy for the Reds. A Russia's spy or Chinese? It doesn't matter. But, does Obama want to catch him?
I said that it could be good for him. Get the Spy!. And it could be bad, based on what the Spy may say in Defense. Obama is for open trials, remember. Backfire. Maybe the spy will rot in place?