A military judge on Wednesday morning sentenced Pfc. Bradley Manning to 35 years in prison for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified documents to the anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks.
Manning, 25, was convicted last month of multiple charges, including violations of the Espionage Act for copying and disseminating the documents while serving as an intelligence analyst at a forward operating base in Iraq. He faced up to 90 years in prison.
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35 years for revealing the truth. Another sad day for America, this slope is a slippery one.
ReplyDeleteWell Obama should get 135 years for lying all the time.
ReplyDeleteThe traitor should be shot immediately.
ReplyDeleteHas an incarcerated individual ever won the Nobel Prize in general? I was nominated once,but before I actually received the award I woke up.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile John Walker Lindh, the American traitor who fought alongside the Taliban, was only sentenced to 20 years.
ReplyDeleteWhile others with PTSD just have nightmares.. His superiors are just as much to blame. They saw it coming and did nothing.!
ReplyDeleteNot long enough.
ReplyDeleteNobel Peace Prize. He did well. We need to fight to free him. This is not constitutional justice.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous Anonymous said...
ReplyDeleteThe traitor should be shot immediately.
August 21, 2013 at 11:36 AM
You, 1:41 PM, and anyone else who thinks like you.
How does THAT feel?