It's the Obama administration claiming this right, not the military. It's the CIA that has been accused of torture prisons (and it was Al Gore who had no probl

It's the Obama administration claiming this right, not the military. It's the CIA that has been accused of torture prisons (and it was Al Gore who had no problem with rendition), not the military. And the Congress really should provide explicit guidance on what is and is not torture, rather than ducking responsibility so that the military can do its job. I can see dumping the gun camera footage. It may have been principled. The government, after all, chose to ignore what looked to me like an eminently fair FOIA request from Reuters, so it kind of deserved to get p0wned by the Annie Lennox lookalike who runs wikileaks. But a lot of the rest of it just seems like a kid throwing his fellow soldiers under a bus, weakening his country, and being a punk. I'd have done the same thing Lamo did, once I knew the extent of what Manning had done.