Whistleblower? Leaking the single video was arguably whistleblowing. Dumping documents en masse without knowledge of their contents is not, by any stretch of th

Whistleblower? Leaking the single video was arguably whistleblowing. Dumping documents en masse without knowledge of their contents is not, by any stretch of the word, whistleblowing. Regardless, whether you agree with the leaking, in whole or in part, Adrian Lamo was going to end up in an interrogation room sooner or later if he didn't come forward. Manning put him in that situation quite carelessly. This is not about politics/policy -- this is about someone instantly making another person a potential co-conspirator. It's rather easy to comment from the sidelines and urge someone else to ignore the potential consequences they face.