Wow, that’s the most asinine hot take I’ve ever read on this site.

Manning said she took “full and complete responsibility”

As my Egyptians friends can attest, you really do not want a military coup.

Your dream is that Germany will invade the US? Is that what you mean by ‘step in’?

That’s an intensely ignorant thing to say.

If being tired of taking out the trash, making coffee for the shop* and scrubbing toilets were good reasons to indiscriminately leak secret/classified information, I wasted my entire enlistment!

Means they disregarded how a large portion of the country felt leading up to the election. Most journalists had their conclusion (Hilldog win) and went looking for facts to support that conclusion. Completely ignored facts that pointed to a Trump win. Michigan and Wisconsin are prime examples.

Liberals and the media in general using the dismiss button clearly contributed.

Do you honestly believe that the release of thousands of unredacted names of informers didn’t contribute to any deaths? That there should not have been any vetting? You are in correct in that I wrongly stated that the deaths were a fact and I apologize for that, but the way I read those articles was they can not…

I was deployed when this happened, and we had to scramble to change things that we were worried had been compromised. She gets very little sympathy from me.

Remember: Excessive use of “Dismiss” can lead, but is not limited, to being sheltered from differing opinions; neglecting sizable portions of the country; misreading the national mood; and a Donald Trump presidency.

Merkel’s immigration policy will usher in a far right candidate.

Unlike various other whistle blowers, she didn’t read any of the information she was releasing and provided it wholesale to Wikileaks. While it happened to contain some things that were good vis a vis transparency, most of it was important national security information that shouldn’t have been made public. None of it…

Let’s discuss better treatment for prisoners, better mental health support...but this is framed as though having a mental health issue in and of itself should qualify someone for release.

Hmmmm......that’s stupid.

If they “understood” your motivations, you wouldn’t have been prosecuted in the first place.

I fail to see what being transgender has to do with her leaking military secrets?

You think most of the military didn’t vote for him?

i’m really curious as to how you envision this would possibly work. Obama just says “Garland is a justice now, tough shit”? that’s not how this works. that’s not how any of this works.

That’s not how it works.