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>Chelsea Manning was the anonymous whistleblower Manning was a spiteful security leak, not a whistleblower.
by BookmarkSaver 7y ago
>Chelsea Manning was the anonymous whistleblower
Manning was a spiteful security leak, not a whistleblower.
- corporate_shi11 7y agoDon't forget that we hate the US government here, anyone that does anything to damage it is a hero and anyone that respects it is a menace.
- InterimNew 7y agoI think most users would agree that HN hosts a variety of perspectives and is not a monoculture on most issues, including this one.
- nickik 7y agoBecause exposing killings of innocent civilians is something people would not approve of unless it was the US government doing the killing? I'm sure if she had leaked a google drone killing people in Zimbabwe everybody hate her. Google marketing guys would be like 'spiteful security leak, not a whistleblower.'. Sometimes I just can't with shit like this. I have to go offline for a while.
- nickik 7y agoWhat huge damage was done to the US government by showing its citizens how its military murders civilians with their tax payer money in war that was against international law and only benefit the political class and security contractors. It gets so much harder to pretend that they are bringing freedom to the Iraqis. I'm sure the poor government had to double its spending on pro-military propaganda because of this evil spiteful security leak.
- paulddraper 7y agoWhat is the difference between those two? Whistleblowers are happy?
- BookmarkSaver 7y agoWhistleblowers are intentionally exposing a wrong. Manning was copying any and all classified content and exposing it indiscriminately. Like, maybe it was important that certain things were exposed, but it wasn't a whistleblower act, it was a spiteful soldier acting out.