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In reply to the discussion: Like it or Not, Bradley Manning is a Traitor [View all]cascadiance
(19,537 posts)His MOTIVE was that of a whistleblower, which in my book makes him one. I challenge you to prove otherwise. Whether he makes mistakes in what information he "leaked", as most humans make at times, doesn't change the FACT that his motive was to expose wrongdoing in our military establishment. That's different than someone who's just profiting from money or other favors to SELL information to the enemy. That person would be a spy and a traitor. To equate Manning with someone like that is in many of our opinions ridiculous.
Somehow there's this notion that a "leaker" can't be a "whistleblower", as if the government suddenly wants to add some additional Webster's Dictionary language for what constitutes "leaking". Daniel Ellsberg also LEAKED information with the Pentagon Papers. He was also a WHISTLEBLOWER!