I wasn't making an argument as to whether he was right or wrong to do it, that's an argument for another thread. Sure there seem to be extenuating circumstance

I wasn't making an argument as to whether he was right or wrong to do it, that's an argument for another thread. Sure there seem to be extenuating circumstances, but ultimately he did knowingly break a law. Regardless of whether you think it's just or unjust, a law is a law. Devout Christians seem to think that paying taxes that ultimately support abortion is immoral. If they don't pay their taxes, they're guilty of tax evasion regardless of how moral they feel it is. This is probably a bad example, but I'm just trying to illustrate a point here. Anyways, I was trying to say that the government isn't simply torturing Manning, there's a good reason for keeping him isolated. In a sense, he knew what he was doing, releasing troves of information that he had no legal right to release. He's going through the painful legal stuff now, but in a lot of ways I think he's better off isolated, rather than murdered by fellow inmates.