Her intent matters very much and Manning was, on the face of it, motivated by ethical/moral concerns about the war and war in general. Remember, Daniel Ellsberg was charged with espionage too.

Espionage, indeed. She was practically Mata Hari:

Sure. I agree. I was (predictably) a very big Bernie supporter and I do feel he would’ve been a far stronger candidate against Trump (though, following his lead, I am not about to claim confidence he would’ve won - we don’t know) but I’ve never been angry at her supporters and I do understand and to some degree…

I need to go read why MWE feels that way!

I’m not a millennial. I’m 40. I just didn’t truly follow politics until my early twenties. But I vividly remember the metastatic and at times obscene attacks on her by the right wing and I do believe they were largely motivated by a misogyny against strong women who rejected antiquated expectations, etc. To those who…

Thanks for being friendly. I’m not rabidly angry, not at all a libertarian (as per the contemporary parlance, at least) and am allergic to the proliferation of asinine conspiracy theories these days. I used to live in DC and wish I could go gorge at Comet Ping Pong this week.

The ways in which I found her dangerous are, of course, qualitatively entirely different than the obvious ways in which Trump is dangerous. My feeling when she took on the SOS role was that she had likely negotiated it with Obama as part of her concession in 2008 in order to appear more convincingly fierce/hawkish in…

Just suffered through some of her videos including an interview with Gavin McInnes, himself now emboldened by Trump to be much more open with the full-on race hate, and my money is strongly on Ms. Youcis being in the early days of a burgeoning and major thought disorder like paranoid schizophrenia or very bad bipolar.…

Actually there’s a great deal of reasoning with me. I’m sure you have heard it a million times by now but I voted for Stein mostly in the hopes we might pull 5%, federal funding, etc. And, for that matter, if the duopoly is unwilling to smash the existing corrupt, private debate format, then no they most certainly…

You’re just delightful.

As dispassionately as I can muster, this argument remains specious.

I’m happy to take the reaming this comment may bring but I don’t know that the story itself is quite as ridiculous as you portray it.

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