Breanna’s defense; the Army should have known he was a criminal (UPDATED)
So while we’re all waiting for the judge to hand down Manning’s sentence, the LA Times reports that Breanna’s defense team’s strategy during the sentencing hearing is that his supervisors shouldn’t have let him near classified material in a “stop me before I kill again” defense;
He was late for meetings, and once curled in a fetal position on a storage room floor and clutched his head, a knife at his feet. He carved the words “I want” into a chair.
Another time, he pounded his fists and flipped over a table of computers before he was wrestled into submission. And in April 2010, Army Pfc. Bradley Manning emailed his sergeant a mug shot of himself wearing makeup, dark lipstick and a flowing blonde wig.
“This is my problem,” he wrote in the email. “I have had signs of it for a very long time.”
While I agree with the larger point, his supervisors should have restricted his access to classified material, in fact they should have thrown his tiny ass out of the Army and out onto the street, but that doesn’t not make him a criminal deserving punishment;
Defense lawyers are seeking to persuade a military judge not to impose the maximum 90-year sentence on Manning, who was convicted last month of espionage and other charges related to the illegal disclosures. They are trying to show that Army commanders ignored signs that the Oklahoma-born soldier was mentally unstable and was nearing a breakdown.
I know this is the only defense that’s available to the lawyers, but it’s still pretty lame. It doesn’t change what he did, and the people who lost their lives because of his treachery don’t get to make excuses. If he’s only getting jail time and no rope stretching time, he should feel lucky.
One of our close friends sent this from BuzzFeed; Breanna Manning’s selfie;
Category: Shitbags
@28 and 41: Thanks for the explanation. I think there was a definite lack of will to get something done on this. It could have been they were shorthanded and even Breanna was needed or some higher up didn’t want to take the chance he was going to be called to his superior over this.
Next time, e-tool to the side of the head, grab an equipment operator with a D7 and a habit of not asking too many questions to dig a huge hole. Problem solved.
@36 typical for your style of arguing, you are horrible at it, 99.9% of this post typically spew your hate for afghans and how they’re “all worthless, particularly the blog owner. Who from the US was specifically target and killed as a result of the leaks? Taliban will use it as propaganda so there’s no correlation or substantiation that those afghans were killed as a result, other than taking the Talibans word, which I wouldnt be inclined to do. I’ll allow you first turd to go fornicate yourself….moron
well, so much for sounding vaguely like a human being
I think she is hotter as a woman …
I mean he is hotter as a woman …
Ah … I mean she looks better than a man …
Ah … what I am trying to say is … eerrrhhh …
Never mind!
Anonymous: you did not restrict your original question to US personnel, fella. You asked “Who exactly has lost their lives as a result of the leaks?” That is an exact quote.
Nicki provided the citation. I simply extracted the pertinent part to made it easy for you to see the answer.
My apologies if the answer was one of those “inconvenient truths” and not what you were expecting, numbnuts. Here, we deal in facts that can be cited – not propaganda.
By the way: try using Word and composing off-line next time. You’ll sound less like an ignorant, half-literate tool if you accept most of Word’s suggestions regarding grammar/punctuation/subject-verb agreement errors.
You’ll probably still sound like a tool – just a marginally literate one.
Anon is another ignorant troll. If you love Breanna so much just tell us, we can see if you can get conjugal visitations.
He released thousands of documents about how the US conducted operations. When gleaned though by a competent enemy ( and believe me the Taliban and Al Queda are competent) they can figure out operational patterns and procedures. Using that they can effectively change their methods to increase casualties.
The release of this information is also a propaganda gold mine, to be shared or modified/edited to recruit and inspire our enemies.
@52. Those goal posts heavy?
First you want evidence of someone killed as a result of the links. Then you want evidence of someone specifically targeted as a result of specific information in the leaks and now you want someone from the US who was specifically targeted and killed.
You’re a pathetic douchebag.
Oh, and fuckstick’s gender-bending and homosexuality has jack shit to do with him being a piece of shit traitor. Thousands of Gay and Lesbians served honorably without being shitbags,,,, even when they had to keep their sexuality hidden to prevent being discharged.
YGBSM. NOW the low-life, scum-sucking shitbag apologizes…
http://news.yahoo.com/u-soldier-manning-could-break-silence-wikileaks-trial-090227069.html
“I’m sorry I hurt people. I’m sorry that I hurt the United States,” the 25-year-old Army private first class told the sentencing phase of his court-martial. “I’m apologizing for the unexpected results of my actions. The last three years have been a learning experience for me.”
Worthless words from a worthless piece of shit.
Damn, he finally realized he f-ed up and could go to jail for the duration. Now he’s trying (and IMO, lying) to save his ass.
Too bad, twinkletoes. Should have thought about that before sending stuff to Wikileaks that damaged the US national interests and apparently got friendlies killed.
That creeps me out man.
Here’s a link from MSN: http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/14/20020933-im-sorry-that-i-hurt-the-united-states-bradley-manning-apologizes-in-court?lite>1=43001
Yeah, okay, but I don’t give a flying fart in space, Manning, because I don’t believe a word you say.
Also, Manning makes a rather homely, dimwitted-looking boy trying to pretend he’s a girl. And he’s shorter than I am, so I can’t even justify wanting to pound his flabby behind.
@63, Oh the guys in lockup will be lined up to “pound his flabby behind…
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue. The law was very clear. The PC environment was and is even clearer.
I’d hit it. I guess now, however, I’m going to have to stand in line
“It doesn’t change what he did, and the people who lost their lives because of his treachery don’t get to make excuses.”
Name one of them. Name ONE person who lost their life because of his “treachery”. Because i can name a few hundred thousand who lost their lives because of the treachery of the US government.
“Name one of them. Name ONE person who lost their life because of his “treachery”. Because i can name a few hundred thousand who lost their lives because of the treachery of the US government.”
Khalifa Abdullah, a tribal elder, was removed from his home in Monar village, in Kandahar province’s embattled Arghandab district, by gunmen. He was then executed.
There’s one… And,,,
At the same time, 70 other tribal elders received death threats warning them that the Taliban had obtained reason to believe they were collaborating with the U.S. One such threat is signed by Abdul Rauf Khadim, a senior Taliban official who was imprisoned in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. When the Cuban prison was partially shut down by President Obama Khadim was transferred to Afghan custody in Kabul, where he subsequently escaped.
Anony mouse is acting in typical retard fashion. I have said it once and I will say it again, when it comes to whistleblowers you have to look at the changes they have caused.
Manning = zero changes in world.
Snowden = zero changes in world.
Peter Buxton, big changes
Perry Fellwock, big changes
Mark Felt, big changes
Gregory C. Minor, Richard B. Hubbard, and Dale G. Bridenbaugh…
If it was a worthless person doing it for his own gains, it kind of shows in the results…