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Manning was ideological? I was under the impression that she was simply immensely unhappy and dissatisfied with her experience in the military as a whole and so
by ameister14 4y ago
Manning was ideological? I was under the impression that she was simply immensely unhappy and dissatisfied with her experience in the military as a whole and so released a huge amount of info without going through it.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoWhile I know much of what inspired her was the depression she was going through, I thought her knowledge of the illegal acts she knew were carried out also inspired her action. It's been a while since I've read her story though, so I could be misremembering.
- imwillofficial 4y agoVindictiveness based on non judicial punishment and a failing career.
- kevin_thibedeau 4y agoMost of what Manning released wasn't exposing crimes. Diplomatic insults via private internal communication aren't particularly actionable.
- boomboomsubban 4y agoNo, and they weren't intended to be dumped in public. The Guardian journalists published the key for the file containing them, changing it from a leak that a team of journalists were going through to choose what to publish to one everyone had full access to. Manning can't be blamed for that. Plus, far more of Manning's leaks were about the wars than the diplomatic cables.