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The problem with your argument is that it's not that he blew the whistle, it's that he didn't do it in a responsible manner. Also, whistleblowing doesn't alway
by pionar 13y ago
The problem with your argument is that it's not that he blew the whistle, it's that he didn't do it in a responsible manner.
Also, whistleblowing doesn't always include breaking a law or contract. Also, he also exposed things that WEREN'T wrongdoing, and even the "wrong" things he "exposed" were pretty much already known and "wrong" is VERY subjective in this circumstance. The "wrongdoing" was not in what happened in the video, nor the number of civilian casualties, those are accidents and mistakes, but in the misrepresentation of those events. That is not really in and of itself wrong.)
And really, the thing that got him most in trouble were the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that exposed no wrongdoing but still exposed state secrets.
- aclevernickname 13y ago> And really, the thing that got him most in trouble were the hundreds of thousands of diplomatic cables that exposed no wrongdoing You've clearly not read the cables. they were responsible for at least two revolutions [1][2], and we're still learning from them. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-international-wikileaks-arab-spring http://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/may/13/amnesty-interna... [2] http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-leaks-inspire-arab-spring http://www.worldaffairsjournal.org/article/wikihistory-did-l...
- mpyne 13y agoThe cables themselves didn't express any American wrongdoing though. It expressed American opinions regarding other nations' governments and internal politics. And either way I wouldn't be so quick to claim that inciting those revolutions is on the balance a positive thing for either Manning or Wikileaks, for the same reason that toppling Saddam's despotic regime was not (on the balance) a good thing.