Breanna Manning tells his side
So, unapologetic traitor, Breanna Manning, told the judge why he released hundreds of thousands of pages of classified material to the world yesterday. Of course, none of his explanation had anything to do with the fact that he was a spoiled little brat acting out. He merely mouthed the words that his adoring fans wanted to hear, according to the New York Times;
Private Manning described himself as thinking carefully about the kind of information he was releasing, and taking care to make sure that none of it could cause harm if disclosed.
The only material that initially gave him pause, he said, were the diplomatic cables, which he portrayed as documenting “back-room deals and seemingly criminal activity.”
But he decided to go forward after discovering that the most sensitive cables were not in the database. He was also motivated, he said, by a book about “open diplomacy” after World War I and “how the world would be a better place if states would not make secret deals with each other.”
“I believed the public release of these cables would not damage the United States,” he said. “However, I did believe the release of the cables might be embarrassing.”
Yeah, he “thought carefully” about what he’d release. He was a spoiled little punk who was mad at his recently ex-boyfriend. With hundreds of thousands of pages involved, I’m sure he carefully read each page before he decided to release it. Basically, we can figure that he really didn’t give a rat’s tiny, furry ass whether it would cost anyone their lives.
The Times goes on to tell how Manning initially tried to release the stuff to the Washington Post and the New York Times, but they didn’t return his calls. I guess they’ll pay more attention to their mail from now on.
Private Manning said, he became interested in detainees, which led him to the Guantánamo files. He said the United States was holding detainees who were “innocent, low-level foot soldiers, or didn’t have useful intelligence and who would be released” if they were still in the war zone.
So, he knew that they were innocent – typical sociopathic behavior. He knows the facts better than anyone else. He didn’t care how many more lives would be lost in the war against terror, so the Army needs to punish him accordingly. Life in prison doesn’t seem too stiff, since we know the Army doesn’t have the testicular fortitude required to put him to death.
Category: Military issues, Shitbags
Short drop and a sudden stop…
Life under Leavenworth would be too good for him.
Where do I sign up to be on the firing squad lottery, or execution wittness?
Private Manning described himself as thinking carefully about the kind of information he was releasing, and taking care to make sure that none of it could cause harm if disclosed.
Except to those folks who have had their heads sawed off by the Talibunnies and AlQ.
Fuck him. He and his butt-buddies think he’s been tortured? Time for some REAL torture. I’m beyond the point of caring about what these shitbags think anymore.
Unfortunately, as much as this treasonous POS deserves the needle the Army decided to take the death penalty off the table. So life w/o parole is the best we can hope for.
And Manning’s claims of being “tortured” are absolute bullshit. You want to know what torture is, check out the accounts from Senator McCain or many of the other Vietnam and USS Pueblo POWs.
Just let him loose with other prisoners and let people know who he is while looking the other way, hopefully he won’t make it far enough for life without parole to matter.
I’d say that I cannot wait for him to meet Bubba, but I think he will rather enjoy that. Send him to a womans prison where he can be some bull dykes bitch.
If it takes a 35 page statement to justify your actions, you might want to reevaluate your decision making process.
@6: From what I have heard (Disclaimer), prisoners in military jails view traitors with the same regard as child molesters.
@#3, DITTO!!
@#9, I’ve heard the same thing, and I’m all for him “accidentally” being left alone among the general population of his prison.
He sought only to embarrass the United States. Oh, okay. And, like a beauty pageant contestant, he wanted only to make the world a better place. Oh, okay. I’d say that about does it.
Didn’t s/he learn in basic that privates, even PFCs, aren’t paid to think? It takes a lot more time in the service, and living life, to fully understand the ramifications of your actions. Some young twerp of a PFC that thinks s/he knows it all, no matter how carefully s/he thought about it really can’t understand the ripple effects of their actions. That is why they start as privates and have to demonstrate maturity and good judgment to earn higher rank.
She wanted to embarrass the USA because, like a little girl would do when her feelings were hurt, she NEEDED to get back at that bad, bad, bad country … the USA.
I still trying to figure our for what!
Note to prosecuters: You have her confession … go for the throat!
It would be an awful shame if Manning were able to sneak a shoelace into his cell and strangle himself before the next court appearance.
@12: Every so often, I’d deal with some Private who was so incredibly gifted and intelligent that if he could get the CO’s attention for five minutes, then everyone would see how important their deep thoughts were.
They either burned out and got BCDs or they had a Come To Jesus moment for pissing off the wrong people. The only difference with Manning is that he had a clearance.
Maggots don’t turn into butterflies. I hope they roast this sob.
The little princess also stated that she was appalled at the bloodthirsty and flippant remarks made by aircrews that took out insurgents. Hey bitch boy, you go police up what’s left of an American service member after a checkpoint/vehicle is hit by an IED/mortar attack and see how you’d feel about getting some payback.
@17, Yep, after picking up American body parts you don’t feel too friendly towards insurgents.
“Note to prosecuters: You have her confession … go for the throat!”
Perfect Master Chief!!! My sentiments exactly. This little shit stain has earned a special place in hell. Hopefully she will get to go visit it real soon.
I look at it this way–this “confession” shows me how limp-wristed and effeminate our GOVERNMENT is, more so than Breanna “My butt buddy broke up with me!” Manning.
I was around, as Master Chief and a few others were for the whole Walker/Whitworth affair. You’d have thought that after what that little circle-jerk accomplished, the next fucker to come down the pike MIGHT live long enough to regret it.
Well, Jonathon Pollard does–he’ll die in prison. Ditto Aldrich Ames and Robert Hanssen. Manning? Nah, he’ll be Bubba’s bitch for a few years (unless the court does the right thing come June.)
The fact he isn’t already looking at a life sentence speaks volumes.
It does not matter why he did it, the law reads specifically “whoever wrongfully transmits any classified information to persons not authorized to receive it is guilty of the offense. That means if he sent any classified information to anyone he did not specifically know had both the required security clearance AND the need to know that information, then he just admitted his guilt. What the court martial will do with that is anyone’s guess, but the prosecution should rest now. Manning has just convicted himself.
Plenty of room for him here at Leavenworth.
And where the h#@! are his supervisors? Who let let this PFC run wild with no oversight?
El Marco: Manning has only pleaded to the lesser charges of wrongful disclosure of classified info, and implicitly to violating regulations. From what I’ve read, 20 yrs is the max for those. He’s not yet pleaded guilty to the charge of aiding the enemy, or to the charge of making intelligence publicly available to the enemy; the government also not yet proven him guilty of either.
Aiding the enemy is the charge that could have gotten him the needle (had the Army not taken the death penalty of the table) and which could still get him life without parole.
At the time, it wasn’t uncommon for folks (even junior ones) with Manning’s clearance level and accesses to have pretty free reign of classified systems, especially in theater. But yeah – it does seem his supervisors were running a pretty lax shop and ignored a few obvious warning indicators about Manning. Some of them certainly seem to have some ‘splainin’ to do.
If he gets off there is no justice
Mike: he’s already pleaded to some of the charges, so he won’t “get off”. The key question for me is whether he ever sees another day of freedom this side of the grave.
If Manning ever sees another day as a free . . . whatever, that will IMO be a absolute travesty of justice. Manning didn’t “sell out” his brothers-in-arms. He gave them up freely, of his own free will – for nothing except fame and personal satisfaction.
He deserves the needle. But I’ll settle for him never again seeing the outside of a cell.
@13-MCPO: I’m still trying to figure out for what!
For what? For those fifteen minutes of fame that Andy Warhol said everyone would get ‘in the future’.
Well…the future is here. Whatever Manning gets, s/he brought it on him/herself.
“The only material that initially gave him pause, he said, were the diplomatic cables, which he portrayed as documenting ‘back-room deals and seemingly criminal activity.’
“But he decided to go forward after discovering that the most sensitive cables were not in the database.”
Manning is being disingenuous.
The dog not barking is that the prosecution has chat logs between Manning and Julian Assange, which show Manning asking his WikiLeaks pal for help in cracking the passwords needed to get into more sensitive material. Assange gives Manning a coy response by saying that WikiLeaks has the hacker resources available for such an effort, but never explicitly offers to take things to that level.
What likely happened next is that Manning was arrested before things went any further.
#25 Hondo: the military doesn’t do the needle. It uses the firing squad or the noose. These are more humane, in terms of not inflicting pain and suffering, than the needle.