Well, no. Lets apply that test to two other famous Whistleblower . Snowden: Did he leak information he was supposed to protect ? Yes. Did he do so indiscrimina

Well, no. Lets apply that test to two other famous Whistleblower . Snowden: Did he leak information he was supposed to protect ? Yes. Did he do so indiscriminately, no. He knew exactly what he was leaking and believed it would not cause damage. How about Daniel Elsberg? Leak info he was supposed to protect. Most certainly. Did he do so indiscriminately?An even more resounding no. Manning, on the other hand literally leaked stuff he never read and which he had no way of knowing couldn't do damage. Is that an absurd standard to apply to a random person, to a journalist even, sure. Not to people under obligations to protect classified information. Certainly not someone subject to the UCMJ. If he had just leaked the "collateral murder" video or anything else that he had read and found damning, it would be a hell of a lot harder to argue he was reckless. But he leaked everything and is lucky that there wasn't anything in there that would have gotten someone killed.