Saturday, March 2, 2013

What's at Stake in the Manning Case

This article is well worth reading to the finish. Eye-opening information in virtually every paragraph.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

A tangential point that doesn't get much play (if any) is that the traditional press has a stake in seeing Manning prosecuted and Wikileaks ruined, since Wikileaks was becoming a big competitor.  For the traditional press, it's not that Manning leaked information - for them, it's that he leaked it to Wikileaks.  They should be very careful going down that road, for reasons set out in this article.  Although, the traditional press being a propaganda arm of the US government in this era, maybe they don't worry, since the likelihood of them publishing anything with a large negative impact on the government is growing slimmer and slimmer. 

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