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Isn't Obama a neocon?
The real reason the neocons fear Snowden:
BS (before Snowden); if there is a terrorist attack, the neocons freak out and say they need more power to spy.
AS (after Snowden); the people freak out and wonder why all the NSA spying did not locate the terrorists.
Isn't Obama a neocon?
Manning's secret kangaroo court verdict today 12:00 CST.
Very probably guilty of aiding the enemy, life in prison.
Why hasn't the press blamed NSA/FBI/CIA for not stopping the Boston Marathon bombing? they all get a pass like they did for 9/11?
"national security" is a wealth-sucking racket.
What a ing disgrace. America, where whistle-blowing gets you prison and the ing war criminal murderers go free.
Bradley Manning, the U.S. Army soldier who provided WikiLeaks with hundreds of thousands of classified do ents, was found guilty of nearly all the charges filed against him, but not guilty of aiding the enemy.
Col. Denise Lind, the judge presiding over an eight-week court martial in Fort Meade, Md., announced the verdict today, which could mean Manning will spend multiple decades in a military prison with only a slim chance of parole.
Manning's ultimate sentence, however, has not yet been determined, and is likely to be appealed. Manning's attorney, David Coombs, has previously said he planned to call as many as 24 witnesses during the sentencing portion of the proceedings.
Federal prosecutors had sought to portray Manning's decision to provide files to WikiLeaks as tantamount to providing them directly to Al Qaeda and other sworn enemies of the United States. "Worldwide distribution, that was his goal,"
Major Ashden Fein said during closing arguments last Friday (PDF). "Manning knew the entire world included the enemy... by giving intelligence to WikiLeaks, he was giving it to the enemy and specifically Al Qaeda."
That argument has alarmed First Amendment advocates and angered activists, who showed upoutside the main gate at Fort Meade in anticipation of today's verdict.
In an unusual move last fall, Manning offered to plead guilty to a subset of the 22 charges -- the less serious ones -- but not aiding the enemy. That partial guilty plea is permitted under the military's Manual for Courts-Martial (PDF).
Adrian Lamo, the ex-hacker who turned Manning in to military authorities after a series of instant message chats told CNET in 2011 that he has no regrets about his role. "Sometimes you need to consider the good of the many versus the good of the one," said Lamo, who was vilified in the hacker community as a result of his disclosure.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57...news&tag= le
Shouldn't Obama pardon Manning or at least commute his sentence for gay rights?
Obama should, but he won't.
"need to consider the good of the many versus the good of the one"
ing asshole. non-civilians outnumber military, THAT's the MANY that comes first.
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