I agree. I also take issue with all the coverage of this insisting that this is an unusually long sentence—this is not a crime that has any easy comparisons. The defense attorney’s statement is disingenuous at best and shouldn’t be used to prove that her sentence is too lengthy. I have personally interviewed federal…

But what about Edward Snowden? If Manning deserves to have her sentence commuted, surely Snowden deserves the equivalent for the position he is in? He didn’t even compromise any military stuff. He just tipped us off as to what the NSA was doing.

Manning knew what she was doing. She dumped millions of unread intelligence documents, without regard to the safety of people who put their lives at risk to help the United States. It was not an act of a whistle-blower, it was the act of a disgruntled PFC in the Army who was mad her life and career were going nowhere.…

Contrary to popular belief, Grown adults != babies.

The guy films his pranks at airports or in airplanes and then we’re supposed to be outraged that he finally got kicked off a plane?

Shouting people get kicked off flights all the time.

You don’t kick babies off flights because they can’t help it. They are absolutely right to kick belligerent and obnoxious passengers off a flight.

Am I supposed to be relieved by this? This man knowingly and willingly exposed his partners to a potentially life threatening disease without their consent. At least one contracted the disease.

Please forgive my stupidity, please, but if the guy had HIV and didn’t tell his partner, then proceeded to have either protected or unprotected sex how is this not reckless endangerment? Why would this conviction cause outrage among LBGTQ advocates when this:

She’d be a POW for about 13 seconds and they’d give her back like here you go not worth it.

I want Bernie voted out of office at this point. I’m so sick of him and his cult- I don’t even feel represented by him. It’s all about his cult.

Bernie Sanders owes the world an apology today. Not for running, which is anyone’s right, but for not stopping the irrational hate and conspiracy theories earlier on and for insisting on fighting to the convention even after it was clear he had lost. I hope he will never forgive himself for what he has done.

As bad as we are feeling, can you imagine how she feels? All that time, money and effort for nothing! She also has to concede to someone who has threatened to jail her.

I have grown to detest that network so much now. They’re despicable.

Grace under fire.

This. She has been full of grace. I have come to admire her so very much.

What’d be terrific would be if you all here at Jezebel were interested in having actual conversations, with people with differing opinions. “The greys” on this website are filled with people that don’t conform to your very secure hive mind mentality, and challenge your thoughts, but instead of engaging them... you…

With the amount of sympathy and compassion happening in this thread, I wouldn’t even need to read the article, or see a picture to know its about a white lady.

Having said that, they targeted her precisely because she made herself a soft target.